Cataphract, Clibanarii, whatever, against Infantry

[recondicom]

Um, I'm not sure how relevant Almogavres are to the discussion at hand

Nothing. Very different cup of tea.
As often before, Manuel simply likes to come in with all kinds of information not directly related to the discussion. And again, he simply copy-pasted a text from the internet into the discussion. A piece of text that has no direct bearing on the question discussed here.

[moderator mode] Manuel, if you have nothing to contribute, please refrain from entering the discussion. [/moderator mode].

I’ still reading the original question to see whether I could say anything about the size of the mount. It ocurred to me that the taefali used big asses to carry away loot and also for other types of training. Is that your cup of tea? Mule.