It was very rare to face an almost all-cav army or all infantry army. Whereas infantry were often farmers or fishermen.Ģ) your point about choosing weapons to counter is pretty limited. If anything, cavalry needed less training by their country’s military because they often grew up practicing martial skills. And cav didn’t take way more training, primarily because most cavalrymen were from higher economic strata (equites, nobles, the more veteran mercenaries) and grew up riding. The comparison was more elite cav vas elite infantry, etc. As far as I’m aware that didn’t really change until roughly the Napoleonic wars, at least in the West.Īnyway, love having these types of nerdy niche military history conversations, so would appreciate more weigh in on it if there’s stuff I’m missing.ĭon’t want to get too deep in but a couple of points:ġ) elite infantry vs above average cav isn’t really the original comparison we were making. Absent rare, exceptional battles (like Cannae), generally units would route long before they would take heavy casualties. It was generally charge-charge again-charge again, until the infantry routed, which was often immediately.įinal point I would make is that the ‘routing phase’ was the bulk of premodern battles. Maaybe if everyone was just standing still cavalry wouldn’t substantially out-kill comparable infantry, but that’s never how actual battles played out. You get knocked down, your friend gets knocked down, you get trampled, etc. In the medieval period, for example, there were very few infantry units that could hold up to a heavy cav charge-the main reason being weight. The other major advantage cavalry had was sheer mass. The one exception to that is well drilled, tight formation infantry with long spears or pikes (Think 14-ft Macedonian sarissa for example.) I think 2,000 cavalry would’ve out-killed 2,000 infantry-assuming similar training, weapons quality, etc-during almost any phase of pre-efficient-firearms warfare, even not counting the routing phase. The boundaries between noble/non-noble were a lot fuzzier to non existent, depending on the era, so you could have situations where the He clan of merchants rises to the top levels of the court because they happened to have a super hot daughter that was chosen for the Emperor and birthed him a son. In addition, Chinese lineages really avoided a lot of the inbreeding issue because of the continual influx of fresh blood through the concubinage system. Side note, Tsar Nicholas was also pretty ripped, gotta respect those gains (NSFW picture of him swimming naked that was discovered last October). While you could obviously cement health issues, like Hemophilia within Victoria's lineage, the Kaiser-King George and Tsar Nicholas all appeared perfectly normal, if anything fairly handsome. It takes a truly colossal amount of inbreeding before you start getting a really fucked up genetic soup. I'd note here that the Hapsburgs were very much an aberration. Think we missed one? Give us a Modmail and suggest new Subreddits to add to the lists!
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