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Old 04-09-2006, 11:31 AM   #16 (permalink)
Anon
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"NO WAY. In the Macedonian hammer and anvil tactic(http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/we...vil_tactics.gif) it may be the case but Cavalry can fight successfully without infantry, infantry CAN NOT fight swuccessfully without cavalry. In Greece the case was different since the opposing forces both comprised heavily of infantry only. The Phalanx is inherently rigid the needed flexibility can only be givel by cavalry."

You're quite wrong and terribly misapplying any knowledge you may actually have.

There are literally tens of thousands of historical battles with no (or inneffective) cavalry presence at all.

But yeah, Cavalry is great...go buy a Stetson.

Then tell me how Xerxes cavalry won the day at Thermopalye.

Or how Queen Boadicea of Iceni's cavalry rode down the vastly outnumbered(30:1) Roman infantry at the battle of Mancetter.

Tell me about the glorious "charge of the Light Bde" and how it smashed through the Russian defenses at the Battle of Balaclava.

And hey, fill me in about Pickett's charge while you're at it too please.

And, oh...nevermind...

Last edited by Anon : 04-09-2006 at 12:44 PM.
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