This, an anti-cavalry tactic?

[Cloud Breaker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1j9BYZljk&feature=related

......

 

[Corvus]

LOOOOL Love it. SO what's their plan of action for when the horses steps on them and destroys head/internal organs?

 

[Night Ninja]

That was ridiculous. Right down to the matching shields, plasticky spears and red cloaks.

 

[Cirdan]

Hilarious. Modern police horses will suposedly avoid stepping on people, thus lying down allegedledly works. Wouldn't try it myself, though. Against an ancient (or medieval) charger, it's not even worth thinking of.

 

[FrisianDude]

Couldn't the riders stab downward? Some had spears, right?

 

[doorknobdeity]

THIS
IS
PUZZLIIIIIIING

 

[Gculk]

Sneaky bastards

Also, very historically inaccurate, they wore far too much armour. Watch the newest movie for reference.

Tch, I'd have thought you would have known that the new movie was a pile of revisionist bull****.  The movie he linked was completely correct, including in weapons.  It's only more revisionist history that has lead us to believe that older civilizations used metal weapons, plastic ones have been around since the end of the stone age.

 

[FrisianDude]

Pffsh, Stone age-> Plastic age-> Bronze age-> Iron age-> Olay Anti-age.

Everyone knows that.

 

[Gculk]

Shows what you know.  Rubber was imported from the east, with Xenophon, who realized that this new substance could be used not only to make more powerful bows, but to lay over plastic shields to cause projectiles and attacks to bounce off without damage to the shield.

 

[Gculk]

What are you yapping about?  Xenophon returned to Greece by ship, completely bypassing Macedon, leading to the first Hellenistic rubbers in Greece.

 

[FrisianDude]

Woops, sorry I was wrong, got confused.

Anyway, I thought Greeks used rubbers only for something quite different?

 

[The Wandering Knight]

Hah, I loved that movie when I was younger!

 

[wee_bob]

you never see the one guy who has a horse crap on his head when it goes past.

 

[Róisín]

Woops, sorry I was wrong, got confused.

Anyway, I thought Greeks used rubbers only for something quite different?

They called them 'Trojans', too.  But in their case, it's because they were DESIGNED to trick the enemy into letting your package into her city walls so that all your little men could burst forth in the middle of the night when she least expects it.  (Seriously, worst. marketing. ever.)

 

[Aqtai]

LOL!

Love that movie, for all it's cheesiness and wild inaccuracies, it was still more accurate than the more recent version.

I think with that tactic you will end up with lots of broken bones. Saying that I vaguely remember Alexander using a similar manoevre. Once. I'll have to look that up.

 

[Merlkir]

LOL!

Love that movie, for all it's cheesiness and wild inaccuracies, it was still more accurate than the more recent version.

I think with that tactic you will end up with lots of broken bones. Saying that I vaguely remember Alexander using a similar manoevre. Once. I'll have to look that up.

wasn't that in Sogdiana or wherever when the enemy pushed wagons down the hill at the phalanx?

 

[Chilly5]

Pffsh, Stone age-> Plastic age-> Bronze age-> Iron age-> Olay Anti-age.

Everyone knows that.

lol...also to the trojan thing.

 

[Redcoat-Mic]

Holy ****! They've brought the British!

 

[Zas]

Lol at people who think that movies are nothing but a complete perversion of the perversion which is held to be true.

 

[The Wandering Knight]

Eh?