Cavalry and chariots against infantry

[Sean Manning]

Study land battles in 14th through 16th century Europe

Why limiting to just this time period? Why not including times prior to 14th and after 16th centuries?

Because it is not polite to suggest that someone do more than a few months of research to approach a topic, because that locus is well documented, accessible, and reasonably similar to ancient warfare, and because to reject a hypothesis of the form ”in situation X, Y never happened” it is sufficient to find a single counter-example. Studying the mechanics of cavalry-infantry combat throughout the second half of the middle ages would be the work of years.

This is not trivial research: it requires choosing case studies, reading up on warfare at that place and time, then reading the earliest sources and performing a critical analysis. For medieval history these sources are usually hard to locate and only available in the original language (or if one is lucky, an old and flawed translation which one can use as a crib). Up to this point my reading has been mostly in modern works and extracts from sources, which is why I am very reluctant to be specific about mechanics.