Re: [hw-rules] Stirrups

From: Henrix <henrix_at_...>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:47:44 +0200


On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Steve Lieb wrote:
> Only cavalry that used the lances more as spears (over hand thrust in
> passing) and thus negated much of the shock value of the cavalry charge.
> They were medium cavalry at best. IIRC, Cataphractoi rarely used lances,
> preferring heavy blades instead.

Do you, then, have any alternative explanation for depictions of cavalry riding with their lances held as lances, sometimes, as I think I stated elsewhere, in two hands?

I followed Richards good example and moved this to HeroWars.

-- 
Henrix

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