Post by dpd on Aug 1, 2023 13:30:59 GMT
IMHO DBA/M is lacking a unique unit, the mounted equivalent of a warband: barbarian cavalry.
Lightly/moderately armored, and armed with both lance and javelin - lighter than cavalry but heavier than horse archers - barbarian horse could operate in bad going (Germanic forests, Irish bogs, North African mountains). They were the primary cavalry of the Gauls, Irish, Germans, Goths, Moors, Numidians, etc. They also made up the bulk of the Roman mounted auxiliaries of the late republic and early empire.
It's a unique unit with its own combat style and movement capabilities, practicing ambush and hit-n-run tactics in bad going using both missile and shock action.
As light camelry (2cm) is associated with light horse (2lh), this unit should be associated with heavy camelry (3cm) - which is also a major mounted component of desert based barbarian tribes.
Heavy chariots (hch) remain associated with knights (knt), and light chariots (lch) remain associated with cavalry (cav).
Light horse would then would be exclusively horse archers.
Thoughts or comments?
Lightly/moderately armored, and armed with both lance and javelin - lighter than cavalry but heavier than horse archers - barbarian horse could operate in bad going (Germanic forests, Irish bogs, North African mountains). They were the primary cavalry of the Gauls, Irish, Germans, Goths, Moors, Numidians, etc. They also made up the bulk of the Roman mounted auxiliaries of the late republic and early empire.
It's a unique unit with its own combat style and movement capabilities, practicing ambush and hit-n-run tactics in bad going using both missile and shock action.
As light camelry (2cm) is associated with light horse (2lh), this unit should be associated with heavy camelry (3cm) - which is also a major mounted component of desert based barbarian tribes.
Heavy chariots (hch) remain associated with knights (knt), and light chariots (lch) remain associated with cavalry (cav).
Light horse would then would be exclusively horse archers.
Thoughts or comments?
