09-27-2013, 02:10 PM
Just looking at "Sewing the Dragon's Teeth by Eric McGeer & his book mentions that all the horsemen who are not archers in the wedge formation should carry shields and I saw an old Byzantine drawing of Theodore of Mistheia using a dead Russian as a shield after his horse is killed on the next page. Gives the term "human shield" new meaning.
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Regards
Michael Kerr
[attachment=8053]Humansheilds.jpg[/attachment]
Regards
Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"