Charging cavalry onto a formation of pike is pretty much the definition of a very bad idea. Pikes are specifically designed for impaling horses and riders. Hit them with archers you idiots.
Men and women of the military sacrifice so those “loved ones” can sleep. Maybe they can’t sleep peacefully while worrying about their military spouse/children/parent, but they are assured of rising to a new day, same as the old day.
You don’t attack pikemen with heavy cavalry because the pike is specifically an anti-cavalry device. You attack them with archers and use the cavalry to keep the pikemen away from the archers.
Kind of reminds one of the reality of war. They not only cost lives, but ruin lives – they most certainly are not number games to be taken cavalierly like a few commenters have done. My guess is they’ve never seen the horrors of war firsthand.
ThePsycrow almost 8 years ago
Gotta catch ’em all, Pikemen!
bigcatbusiness almost 8 years ago
I can’t imagine those knights playing chess.
Lakegal almost 8 years ago
Thanks for the reality check, Rodney.
mischugenah almost 8 years ago
Unfortunately, so do the peasants those 1500 pikemen would loot and pillage if you didn’t send anyone out to get rid of them.
jorgen Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Well, Rodney, you can alternatively just sit down and be slaughtered together with the rest of ID.
wmwiii Premium Member almost 8 years ago
And if calvary doesn’t work, you could try sending in the cavalry.
deojaideep aka Courage almost 8 years ago
From my knowledge of AOE, Pikemen can run through cavalry! Use of Scorpions/Ballistas, Mangonels, recommended.
Mark Jeffrey Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Charging cavalry onto a formation of pike is pretty much the definition of a very bad idea. Pikes are specifically designed for impaling horses and riders. Hit them with archers you idiots.
William Pursell almost 8 years ago
OYE B.Z. you’re lucky indeed it’s the Fink there givin’ orders and Not My Broomie Luv!
William Pursell almost 8 years ago
Wait a Mo’? Is there even 3,000 people IN Id?
clayusmcret Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Men and women of the military sacrifice so those “loved ones” can sleep. Maybe they can’t sleep peacefully while worrying about their military spouse/children/parent, but they are assured of rising to a new day, same as the old day.
Waddling Eagle almost 8 years ago
You don’t attack pikemen with heavy cavalry because the pike is specifically an anti-cavalry device. You attack them with archers and use the cavalry to keep the pikemen away from the archers.
rshive almost 8 years ago
Was it Napoleon? “Men are nothing. One man is everything.”
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 8 years ago
And finky kings don’t care.
hopatease almost 8 years ago
both sides could just hold hands and sing Kumbaya that would work for every one
cubswin2016 almost 8 years ago
War is no game like Rodney already knows.
Bruce388 almost 8 years ago
“Cavalry.”
RICHARD SCHOENBORN Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Yes, Cavalry, Calvary is a hill near Jerusalem where (according to the bible) the crucifixion took place.
bruceFla Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Major typo – it’s “cavalry” NOT calvary
dlauber Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Kind of reminds one of the reality of war. They not only cost lives, but ruin lives – they most certainly are not number games to be taken cavalierly like a few commenters have done. My guess is they’ve never seen the horrors of war firsthand.
RobJ Premium Member almost 8 years ago
“Calvary” is the hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. “Cavalry” is a host of armed men on horses.
Cerabooge almost 8 years ago
Fink’s version of layoffs. Those horses eat a lot, and the cavalrymen themselves are expensive to maintain, too.
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And if he had actually planned ahead, he could have lounged about inside the castle walls and laughed at the pikemen.
rwenjo almost 8 years ago
DON’T YOU MEAN ‘CAVALRY’?
Mark DeMist Premium Member almost 8 years ago
CALVARY!! Saidagive?