Indeed!
Hard bastards with spears tend to do fairly well against even heavy cavalry.
Slightly pissed-off burghers with spears tend to do fairly well
against heavy cavalry too, if they can hold a line worth a damn.
(How did these spear chaps get beaten by these cavalry chaps again?)
> Humakt doesn't ride a horse in his mythology so it's a bit of a stretch
> to make him a god of cataphracts.
Wait a sec, I saw Pale Rider...
But really... seems weird that the principle warrior god of a people
who's pinnacle warriors ride horses doesn't also ride a horse. This
suggests one of two things:
(a) Humakt isn't their premier warrior god
(b) Humakt has some horse-riding myths we've not recovered
Is it at all possible that some mythic follower of Humakt said to his
chums "You know, if I got on this horse I'd be able to kill people a
whole lot more effectively and they wouldn't be able to run away so
well" and started the whole thing off?
--
John Machin
"Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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