Timeline for Would Elephant Bird Light Cavalry be feasible?
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| Aug 11, 2016 at 21:35 | vote | accept | TrEs-2b | ||
| Aug 10, 2016 at 17:01 | vote | accept | TrEs-2b | ||
| Aug 11, 2016 at 19:54 | |||||
| Aug 10, 2016 at 16:27 | comment | added | Twelfth | thanks @CandiedOrange - now I'm cleaning coffee off my monitor from that spit take :D | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 3:23 | comment | added | candied_orange | And combat would look something like this | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | Twelfth | Related here: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6731/… I'd imagine your opponent could come up with some interesting tactics to try to spook the ostriches as I'm thinking they wouldn't be the most disciplined and probably hold irregular formations at best | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | Twelfth | @TrEs-2b - oh yes most definitely. Romans made heavy use of this tactic, as well as the Spanish (Spanish Jinete was the term I believe) made use of this tactic. Same idea, hover around your enemy but don't fully engage. Arrows allow for a larger amount of ammunition to be carried, however the javelin could be used as a spear giving them a fall back option if they got caught in hand to hand combat. all trade-offs. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | Interesting idea, quick question; would javelins also work? | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 17:40 | history | answered | Twelfth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |