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    Hi!

    Shouldn't most latin knights have horse armours? I don't know much about the medieval history but that's what most middle-age movies show:


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    Default Re: horse armour and cavalry?

    Yes, some ~300 years later... This is a knight at the very end of medieval times around 1450 AD. As a matter of facts the mod plays much earlier between 1080 AD and 1204 AD.
    For the LATE periode knights would certainly have horse armour, in the time scale of the mod hourse armour will be extremely rare. In a Byzantine campaining army for examle, there were between 304-1,008 cavalrymen riding armour horses under optimal conditions out of a total of about 8,000 cavalry and a grand total of an army of about 25,000 troops. Since Kataphraktoi were supposed to require 4 times as much land for their maintenance, even the Byznantine army at its highmark had problems to meet such numbers! So we can expect to find only individuals riding armoured horses in western armies in our periode...
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    So we can expect to find only individuals riding armoured horses in western armies in our periode...
    And then not the plate armour above, of course. Just mail armoured horses, but as Basil says: very seldom.
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    That armor is so cool! It is like the paladin tank of the 15 century!

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    :-) Basileios made a good statement. I can't add anything to that. We play the early medieval with Chivalry.
    Before that time-frame (of the early middle age) we can find armored riders with armored horses in the late antique called Clibanarii.
    But this doesn't match our early middle age.

    But the picture is nice :-P

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