>From: "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_...>
>Reply-To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: <HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: Re: Re: Cool stuff & NPCs
>Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:57:30 -0700
>
>
>It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
>done what he has done.
>- Richelieu
>
> > >>If they spot them, and don't assume they're dead. The heavier armoured
> > >>horsemen (Knights & Cataphracts) have a very restricted field of
>vision
> > >>so will be particularly vunerable.
> > >
> > >It's not a tactic *I'd* count on to work very often. In Hollywood, yes.
>In
> > >real life? no.
> >
> > Not to mention that you would be laying on the ground right when a horse
> > is charging by. Getting stepped on by a charging horse would really
> > wreak your day. Not to mention kill you.
>
>Or even hurt you!
>
>Now, a variant would be to have convenient pits (created by Ernalda magic?)
>to stop the horses. A series of gopher or rabbit-sized holes will wreck a
>cavalry charge. *Then* let the Gor types pop up out of yet more pits and
>slaughter the remnants of the charge...
>
>RR
>
>
Still, the lying on the ground trick was used by Russian soldiers in the
Napoleonic wars ; it works because the horse itself doesn't want to stand on
prone soldiers, or any other obstacle that's likely to hurt its feet.
Alexei
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