So the chicken rides the cock ah <:smugon:512048583806025739> @Lucienne d'Anwyl

@Storin That's the better Shad to be invoked in this situation

Real talk how long till the left accuses him of being linked to the far right 🤔

i dont think its hard to realize something that splinters as soon as it hits armour would be worthless as a weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygaSMeTh-f0

Jousting seems like a silly idea with no practical use other than to say I have a longer pole than you

The real lances don't splinter

Joust lances are not tipped usually

War lances are

@lunemarie Well *my* pole has stripes on it! Bitches love stripes.

@Lucienne d'Anwyl well a long stick is still a long stick and if used as a blunt weapon can knock out an enemy rider of his saddle

One hit with it anyway then its drop and switch to sword

war lances are one use weapons anyway

so its not that big a deal

All lances are tbh

the lance exists to break a line of spears

Just saying why not have a lance for jousting that you like twirl around and it has a spiral pattern and hypnotise the enemy

Any polearm used by cav is one use, when its used you drop it and swap to sword/mace

a pike is way longer than a lance dude

its supposed to kill an armoured opponent

i said spears

Psychological warfare 100

not pikes

its not gonna do shit against spears

or pikes

Nah cav never charged spear formations because you know spears- and spears are all round the best weapon tbh

you can one hit K-O a knight

i think winged hussar lances were 18 feet long or some crazy shit

youre not gonna do shit against a spearman

Alexander the Great broke his lance on a persian rider and then proceeded to bash his face in with the rest of lance till he fell of his horse

they were hollow

Cav were predominantly used to attack supply trains, archer formations, and fleeing enemies

well difference beteen heavy cav and light cav there

Until the high and late medieval ages when it was more man at arms and plate based and less pike and shot

Spears were one time **but the phalanx formation is forever**

heavy cav is useless for anything other than hitting infantry hard

@Storin hey we have a modern precedent for that in Hong Kong you know

Even they did not charge spears tbh

no duh

Yeah polish Hussars had lances that were up to 20 feet long

lol gretta went full socialist-feminist