Re: Re: Technology and the cataphractoi

From: Simon Miller <simonmiller60_at_fsmail.net>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 00:46:18 +0200 (CEST)

Donald Oddy said :

> I don't see any great technological difference between cataphracts
> and even 15th Century knights except possibly stirrups which appear
> at the latest by the 6th Century.

The main differences that strike me between knights and cataphracts, are that the cataphracts usually used a two handed lance (sometimes mace), and I believe emphasised a slower charge and closer formation than (oftimes) impetuous knights did. Not a huge difference...

In my Glorantha there is room for both cataphracts and knights; but I favour early knights in chainmail as I feel instinctively they fit in nicely alongside the dark age warriors of Dragon Pass.

Simon
Simonmiller60_at_fsmail.net

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Message date : May 13 2005, 11:00 PM
>From : "Andrew Barton"

To : "INTERNET:glorantha_at_rpglist.org" Copy to :
Subject : Re: Technology and the cataphractoi The main difference was tactical -
> the Romans used cataphracts as part of a combined arms force whereas
> in western medieval europe knights were regarded as the core of
> the army.

Sassanid Persian armies (contemporaries of the later Roman Empire) were built round a core of cataphract cavalry.

Andrew

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