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Originally Posted by joken gonzo
wow the fast moving and wild mongol horde vs the hard discplined roman legionaires to me it comes down to a battle of wits who is the better tactian and who can utlize their advantages better
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Wild? they were the most disciplined and orderly and brave people in the world at that time. Mongolian's are put into squads of ten. If one member of a squad takes a wrong foot, the whole squad is killed maintaining absolute discipline.
Mongolians when they were young practiced to shoot animals in the eyes from across large rivers. They have more horse riding, training then any other cavalry in the world and their arrows cut through thick metal armour like a chainsaw through cream. Mongols only had true difficulty against the Asians in terms of wars. Europeans were just scraps of meat. Iranian/russia/east europe fell in few few years but it took mongols nearly 100years to defeat china. And even when they did capture song, the ruler was so pro chinese he moved the mongol capital to china and made chinese the official language. Mongolians also sufferered hundreds of thousands of casualties against Japan. More then a quarter of a million men lost against korea. They never managed to capture vietnam after hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers. Mongols were powerful and effective but mainly only against european metal hunks and scarf wearing middle easterners.