02-19-2013, 11:09 PM
Quote:Quote:I remember a video of some horse smashing into another horse in some race, but 10 horses out of 1,000 would not dictate cavalry tactics.
But 10 horses out of 1,000 is exactly a proportion of trained combat horses to all horses.
Because - you know - elite heavy cavalry formations did not fight on "any horse they could find".
I mean 10 out of 1,000 of a single charging unit/line, this specific argument has to do with special horse personalities rather than training. Whether a horse could/can be trained to smash into a solid obstacle still remains to see, the ancient and medieval Greek sources certainly do not contain any such mention as far as I know. Maybe you can find some evidence of such training, even modern efforts would be interesting.