heavy cavalry engaging heavy cavalry

[Robert]

I would side with Robert on this one. The thread is in Roman Military History & Archeology. Still, all kinds of cavalry units from different era are introduced, without making a serious attempt to link these to what we know or persive of Roman cavalry. I am getting pretty tired of Peter's Polish hussars and their supposed acts of bravery and unstopable horses. From what we seem to know, cavalry was a rapid intervention force aimed at disrupting enemy formation and the opponants cavalry at times was used to prevent this, causing a cavalry clash. This however took away a large portion of the real tactical use of cavalry and was meant as a way to stop the original attemp of disruption. In Roman times, it was all about the infantry to take the field and the day and cavalry was in the support role. A paralel to the present was to view the cavalry as an airforce unit supplying close air support. Hahahaha, but he, now I am wandering way off topic :-)