08-15-2006, 02:30 PM
Never meant to imply that the chariot was used in shock tactics but its utility as a mobile archer platform had to have been greatly dimenished when tighter packed formations in general were adopted making archery in general more of a side show to the main conflict.
Of course the idea of the chariot as a mobile weapons platform is still rather controversial as well with many scholars like Alan Schulman who propose that while the bow was the main weapon of egyptian charioteers they generally fired from stable ground.
The idea that it was close order infantry that defeated the Chariot warfare mode is well argued by Robert Drews in his book The End Of the Bronze Age
Of course the idea of the chariot as a mobile weapons platform is still rather controversial as well with many scholars like Alan Schulman who propose that while the bow was the main weapon of egyptian charioteers they generally fired from stable ground.
The idea that it was close order infantry that defeated the Chariot warfare mode is well argued by Robert Drews in his book The End Of the Bronze Age
David Minto
