Timeline for If you could train them, would bulls make good cavalry?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 14:47 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 7:49 | answer | added | Separatrix | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 3:40 | answer | added | DWKraus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 19:15 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 17:34 | answer | added | Chebi | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 23:49 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | I don't see elves on bulls, but I could see dwarves on water buffalos. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 21:31 | answer | added | Seallussus | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 18:31 | comment | added | user535733 | The answer to "IF this were possible, would it work?" is always "yes." You made it so. Early horses were too small to ride - they pulled chariots. Millenia of selective breeding made them large and strong enough to ride. Do with your bulls what you will. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 12:05 | comment | added | user28434 | If it would be castrated bulls (steers/oxen), they would be useful in some circumstances. Like hauling ammunition, supplies, siege engines, etc. But you can't charge. So, traditional cavalry tactics of hit-and-run won't work with them. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 10:05 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | See this related one from a while ago: challenges-for-using-a-bull-as-a-characters-mount. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 5:40 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | @SurprisedDog mess with a horse, you get the hooves. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 5:38 | comment | added | John | they are so wide they are hard to sit on that plus the generall curmudgeonly of bulls is the big limit. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 5:23 | answer | added | Li Jun | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 4:18 | comment | added | mustardMan | @mu無 Cattle were also commonly used in China, sometimes with explosives attached. I doubt anyone rode them, though. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 4:15 | comment | added | user6760 | Tame em like how? red shirt... Sorry wrong world. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 3:41 | comment | added | Anshul Goyal | A quick google search led here: quora.com/Have-bulls-ever-been-used-in-battle | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 3:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 28, 2019 at 3:32 | comment | added | SurpriseDog | Unfortunately: If you mess with the bull, you get the horns. :-( | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 3:31 | history | asked | mustardMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |