just light infantry/cavalry given scout tasks using their same gear seems to me vastly more common

if a hammer has an armour piercing spike

it dont matter how good your armour is

youre getting fucking GANKED

so instead of a perpendicular crunch, its at a 170 degree angle and gets deflected

it does if you parry

yeah most hammers arent actually hammers lol

scouts where mostly light cavalry and skirmishers sent ahead of the army to look around

a parry can mean he glances your head

no helmet means you're dead

@Kealor scouts in european history

and it rhymes too

are mostly savages

never heard of dedicated scout coprs before modern times

like real scouts

usually mercenaries

and savages

okay, you want real scouts?

light cavalry

done

nah

mounted infantry

sent ahead because we don't care about them

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i mean i cant see anything

wouldn't they just tell their light cavalry to do a run around

^

and then come back

i mean when i played M2TW I always used mercenaries like that

granted

mercenaries are way more valuable

than your regular medieval army

in all honesty

scouts are inferior to just having your normal infantry look ahead

they arent expendable

irl you dont treat mercenaries like meat shields

your own army is expendable

also sent them in to carry the siege equipement

or you lose your mercenaries lul

a lot of mercenaries were highly elite

most mercenaries are