Couched lances in Brytenwalda?

[MrQwerty]

I was playing and it suddenly struck me that couched lances are in the game - which is odd, since while the technique of using the lance as a point concentrating a rider's momentum was well known and widely used by the Byzantines even during the dark ages, it didn't gather any sort of real following in mainland Europe before the 12th century. The Bayeux Tapestry shows knights holding their lances overarm rather than underarm, in a stabbing or throwing position rather than a proper lancing one.

I must admit I haven't got the faintest clue about warfare in the British isles during the dark ages, but the couched lances just seem out of place. Are there any records about lances being used widely in a couched manner in the isles during Brytenwalda's timeframe? If not, shouldn't the ability to couch your lance be removed from the mod entirely for historical accuracy?

Great mod though, I like that you can't be riding around on a charger in five inches of plate within a few days 

 

[Idibil]

Only one "lance" in brytenwalda: Byzantine Kontos.

It is too long and it cant be use overarm.
Rest are spears, but we have use native animation here, and you dont see it overarms like bayeux tapestry.

Future, if we get animation, we add it overarm

 

[Kolba]

There is no evidence for couched lancing in Britain, in this period, but Late Roman cavalry sometimes used lances called contus, which were of eastern origin. However there is some evidence for Sarmatian settlement near Hadrian's Wall in the third century, they certainly used long lances, but we have neither archaeological or written sources to claim that Sarmatians continue to live there in the fifth century and later. Therefore, I have this weapon in SoT (which is set in 570 AD), but it's only reserved for one NPC, who is descendant of Sarmatians. I wouldn't recommend it for Brytenwalda, as Idibil's mod is set around 60 years after mine.

 

[Puritan]

the only place I've seen couched lances is in the tournament. I'd actually question that tournaments are in the mod at all, but I love it too much to knock it.