I can't imagine being in the front line with a pointy stick and some armored to the gills cavalry charging at me!
How do you even counter this shit back then?
GAWD DAMN HORSES GET THIS FUCKING BIG?!
I can't imagine being in the front line with a pointy stick and some armored to the gills cavalry charging at me!
How do you even counter this shit back then?
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>How do you even counter this shit back then?
pointy sticks and lots of discipline, pretty much.
You can't charge horses into blocks of armored men successfully. Heavy cav, had to flank, or weight until the formation was fractured. Against lighter lower quality infantry they could. But any armored proffesional infantry, would be pretty impervious to heavy cav.
>How do you even counter this shit back then?
As big and strong horses are, they're prey animals, and will try to run away from danger.
>They've got to form square!
Horses are afraid of pointy sticks and will not charge a big bunch of men holding them up unflinchingly
If enough men turn their backs however and try to run, or don't hold up their pointy sticks high enough, or get shot and fall, the horses do sometimes crash through, and then you are in the shit
My ex had horses and was a trainer. They are actually super scaredy cats and spook easy (obviously cop horses are probably well socialized). After being warned about being kicked, this guy was backing up at me and I thought he was about to get me but she said he just wanted his butt scratched.
Had a horse as a kid and yes they spook easily and for the most retarded reasons usually.
>my ex
You just know.
Even cow shit is mostly just tiny bits of grass covered in mucuous.
its because for some reason their brains have difficulty comprehending 3-dimensional space.
They need to get acclimated to the world because if you take a flattish object and turn it sideways it literally seems to just contort and shrink or grow to the horse.
So tumbling leaves and shit actually looks like shapeshifting eldritch abominations to them.
So you either train it by slowly getting it used to various kinds of objects so it gets over the whole shapeshifting object
Or you traumatize it into not giving a shit, which isn't really done.
War Horses were trained to not be skittish, fuck ive watched stud horses bite cattle before when driving them, they can be aggressive.
I rode a 2000lb horse and it was constantly shitting everywhere
I went horse riding once and my horse was a total dick, it was great. He'd tailgate the next horse, he'd walk in circles if he wanted to, if he wanted to have water he'd just go over and have water, and when we got to the stage where you could do a bit of a trot with them he took the signal for trot as fucking send it and went into a gallop that made me shit myself.
All in all very fun. Although I came out of it with a different impression to my friends who all had very tame gentle horses, they thought they were just big muscly dogs that you could ride on. I got off the thing with the belief that if it were the medieval times that horse would be murdering peasants.
The horse I rode was named Magpie, on account of its black and white coat. However, I was quick to find that it was more of a fitting assessment of its temperament, because that fucking horse was a prick. Kept nipping at everyone else's tails and generally trying to pick fights.
this. horses are disgusting.
Horse poop is as neutral a poop as you can get. It's not a hot load like human or dog shit, and it's mostly solid unlike cowpats.
Standing in it is literally a who even cares moment.
This "muh herbivore feces" shit is literal cope.
It´s true though, if you gave me the option of cleaning up the shit of 3 horses or 3 chickens, I´d choose the horseshit everytime. It´s pretty much like shoveling coal.
Modern horses are fed GMO food, which makes them much bigger than their medieval counterparts.
horses are fed GMO food, which makes them much bigger than their medieval counterparts.
medieval warhorse are fuck huge. They were breed for size and were absolutely massive and expensive.
Modern horses are generally smaller because the demand for warhorse no longer exist.
tell me you don't own horses without telling me you don't own horses.
i've got four stallions we use for work on the property, and all of them are on a cruise dose of 2000mg/week trenbolone acetate and 1200 mg/week test C. they're fuckin monsters.
Completely wrong. Destrier were the most prized medieval war horses, and they were small, at only 14-15 hands. Most other breeds were that size, too. A big horse makes no sense in battle.
>Modern horses are generally smaller because the demand for warhorse no longer exist.
Talking out of your ass again. Big horses exist, they are draft horses. You see them less now because their jobs have been taken over by machinery. War horse breeds are extinct, but that's a moot point since they were little anyway.
>medieval warhorse are fuck huge. They were breed for size and were absolutely massive and expensive.
You are completely wrong.
Medieval horses were quite a lot smaller - not quite pony-size, but, a large warhorse was still quite small compared to modern breeds. Most horses for everyday life in the medieval era were large pony-sized by modern standards. We also have the horse armour of warhorses from the 15th Century - and they are for relatively small animals.
Breeds like the clydesdale and shire horses, the really big draught horses for pulling carts etc are 18th century, long after the medieval period.
The only bit you're right with is that the warhorses were extremely expensive compared to the normal beast of burden type horses used for travel and farming etc. That's mostly as they were trained a lot more, partly specialist breeding.
Make everyone's lives super shitty then convince them they get to hang out with God if the die for you.
Cavalry horses were much smaller than this, measuring only 14-15 hands. That is, they were pretty much on the borderline of being ponies. Virtually all war horses throughout the ages were smaller than you think.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5iva_jAbzJY
this is what happened
yes this is russia
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Love the crowd's simultaneous reaction of "COP BAD, HURT THE COP" and "HORSEY GOOD DONT HURT THE HORSEY" it's like their brains short circuited trying to figure out what to do.
Can you do the police equivalent of a court marshall with a horse?
the rider is held responsible probably
it's called horse glue factory
>How do you even counter this shit back then?
dig a trench filled with wooden stakes in front of the infantry line the enemy can't see before they're right on top of it