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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2

      I don't have sources onhand to cite but this narrative seems overly simplistic, boiling down the role of cavalry to like "what's their dps" and at odds with what I'd think would be mainstream view

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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      it's true the image of heavy cavalry barreling straight through static defenses laying waste to all around them is romance/hollywood

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    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      but they were often decisive in that a heavy cavalry charge is utterly terrifying and lines would break up in anticipation

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    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      which would often instantly result in a total rout. whether or not they're dueling on horseback or whatever is immaterial, the goal is to win, and slaughtering a fleeing foe is easy and low-risk

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    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
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      infantry discipline can beat this, eg charles martel famously won at tours without horses against very skilled umayyad heavy cavalry

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    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
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      but martel drilled them for a decade to accomplish this and also just happened to be one of the more brilliant military minds in history. it's no small feat

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    7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      for another example there's this pop narrative of the hundred years war as the end of the knight that actually isn't true

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    8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
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      I forget why but french men at arms fought on foot mostly at that point and both famed english victories at crecy and agincourt were mostly because of incredibly favorable terrain

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2

      but after that french heavy cavalry was pretty dominant and widely feared through much of the 16th century, and pike and shot formations evolved in large part to prevent getting assfucked by them

      1:27 AM - 2 Apr 2018
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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          but this is all heavy cav. if we bring in light cav the argument is a joke, societies organized around horse archer skirmish tactics have long been the bane of civilized society

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        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
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          most notably the mongols, but the magyars and xiongnu et al fought in much the same style

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        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Apr 2
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          and the switch from hanfu plus chariots to nomad dress plus horse archery was a rather momentous turn in the warring states period and a big part of how qin rolled everyone so fast

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