Posts: 12 Location: Split, Croatia
Fri 10 Jul, 2020 10:44 am
Martin Kallander wrote: |
Quote: | cataphract lancers were likely used against cavalry |
While you probably aren't wrong about this, the manuals aren't specific on how the lances are used. We only know that 16 out of the 504 riders in the cataphract wedge carried lances. They were probably used against whatever the cataphracts engaged, not just cavalry. |
Manuals do show that lancer cataphracts were deployed on wings of the formation, whereas mace-wielding cataphracts were ones used to penetrate infantry lines in a charge.
Posts: 121 Location: Sweden
Fri 10 Jul, 2020 11:11 am
Toni Šušnjar wrote: |
Manuals do show that lancer cataphracts were deployed on wings of the formation, whereas mace-wielding cataphracts were ones used to penetrate infantry lines in a charge. |
Just to be clear I'm not saying the primary purpose of these lancers wasn't fighting other cavalry, just that the manuals don't tell us why 16 riders on the wings are given lances which means we can only speculate.
When I said they probably also fought infantry I merely meant it like this: Where do you think those wings go when the four ranks that only carries swords and maces have charged into the enemy infantry? They obviously clash with the infantry as well and since the manuals don't explicitly say they discard their lances at that point the safest assumption is they engage the infantry with the lances.
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