Timeline for How Effective Would War Mammoths be in Combat in a Medieval Civilization?
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| Oct 21, 2018 at 4:15 | comment | added | Schrodinger'sStat | Vikings had access to amanita muscaria mushrooms and would use them to enter berserker states. | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @Thorne In South Asia war elephants were used for 3,000 years. Thus they were effective military units against troops who were familiar with them. Of course South Asian societies and armies were different from medieval Scandinavia. | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 9:45 | comment | added | Eth | +1 for berserker mammoths | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 8:27 | comment | added | user7076 | This is already covered in the Wikipedia link, but It's worth mentioning here that elephants remained in use for logistics/supply transport long after they had stopped being used as heavy cavalry. | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 3:01 | comment | added | mgh42 | just get them drunk, in africa the elephants often get drunk eating fruits from the marula tree | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 1:45 | comment | added | The Weasel Sagas | Good thinking. I'll be sure to put this in the book series when I actually get to writing it. | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 1:43 | comment | added | Thorne | Opium poppies? Many natural plants that act as pain killers. | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 1:41 | comment | added | The Weasel Sagas | Don't really know how a viking-age society could muster painkillers but I'll give it some thought. | |
| Oct 19, 2018 at 1:40 | history | answered | Thorne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |