Bro... there are several accounts of cavalry charging head on into pike formations and breaking them.
Just because you form a spear wall doesn't mean you got the morale to maintain it.
Its a battle of the mind
One of the most impressive I think was Third Ramla or Ascalon by the Crusaders
Spears shatter against charging horses when they are protected. They usually used very very thick pikes, made out of massive branches that were planted into the ground to stop a cavalry charge.
>Be Cao Cao >Known as the overconfident guy who routinely gets outsmarted and routed in just about every battle I get in to >Want to battle Sun Ce because why not >Create the greatest armada ever to cross the Yangtze >Rivers are scary I will never understand how the Romans could cross something like the Med >Ooh the river has currents and my boats are not completely still in the water >Genius bootlicker aide tells me to tie the boats together for more stability >Why this never occurred to anyone else in history is beyond me >Tie boats together. They are now all effectively immobile >Ooh what's that? >Boats crossing from other side of river but... >They are on fire? >Crash into my boats who can't avoid them >Everything burns >Curse this military genius Zhuge Liang
>Get into skirmish with enemy army >middling results but both sides eventually retreat >30 years later decide to write down the event for posterity >AND WE WERE A SMALL BAND OF BROTHERS, THIRTY OF US, AGAINST THE RUSHING TIDE OF BODIES, MORE NUMEROUS THAN THE STARS IN THE SKY. BY THE TIME WE FLUNG THE DREADED HORDE BACK, ONE HUNDRED MILLION WERE SLAIN BY OUR HANDS!!
How shall we measure the 'Greatness'? I contend the greatness of a battle should be measured largely by the consequences of the battle.
In the classical West a significant one is the Battle of Thermopylae because it kicked off a 'Golden Age'.
Stalingrad
no physical evidence
Why are horses running straight into spear formations and why are they not getting impaled when doing so
Bro... there are several accounts of cavalry charging head on into pike formations and breaking them.
Just because you form a spear wall doesn't mean you got the morale to maintain it.
Its a battle of the mind
One of the most impressive I think was Third Ramla or Ascalon by the Crusaders
Spears shatter against charging horses when they are protected. They usually used very very thick pikes, made out of massive branches that were planted into the ground to stop a cavalry charge.
Gaugamela
The upcoming battle
that K/D
>medieval estimates
>battle of cowabunga
Ain Jalut
Red Cliff. Western "battles" are a joke compared to Chinese military history.
>Be Cao Cao
>Known as the overconfident guy who routinely gets outsmarted and routed in just about every battle I get in to
>Want to battle Sun Ce because why not
>Create the greatest armada ever to cross the Yangtze
>Rivers are scary I will never understand how the Romans could cross something like the Med
>Ooh the river has currents and my boats are not completely still in the water
>Genius bootlicker aide tells me to tie the boats together for more stability
>Why this never occurred to anyone else in history is beyond me
>Tie boats together. They are now all effectively immobile
>Ooh what's that?
>Boats crossing from other side of river but...
>They are on fire?
>Crash into my boats who can't avoid them
>Everything burns
>Curse this military genius Zhuge Liang
Yes, truly a battle of the ages.
>Get into skirmish with enemy army
>middling results but both sides eventually retreat
>30 years later decide to write down the event for posterity
>AND WE WERE A SMALL BAND OF BROTHERS, THIRTY OF US, AGAINST THE RUSHING TIDE OF BODIES, MORE NUMEROUS THAN THE STARS IN THE SKY. BY THE TIME WE FLUNG THE DREADED HORDE BACK, ONE HUNDRED MILLION WERE SLAIN BY OUR HANDS!!
Comic name?
Love me some Battle of Leipzig. That and the Siege/Battle of Vienna 1683.
Battle of Kursk
How shall we measure the 'Greatness'? I contend the greatness of a battle should be measured largely by the consequences of the battle.
In the classical West a significant one is the Battle of Thermopylae because it kicked off a 'Golden Age'.
The greates battle was the friends we made along the way
Was that made by the 300 guy?