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[Hanslanda]

I play Total War games and their hilarious inaccuracy as to history forces me to not comment here. But seriously, plant the butt of the spear on the ground, and aim for the chest. You might get crushed beneath the charging horse, but if there are thousands of other people doing the same as you, you're chances are infinitely better facing death than running.

[Elone]

Well the mongols had a tactic of gashing a horses side to cause it to run in a panic, then pretty much guiding it into the enemy lines. However, that tactic tends to reduce the lifespan of your horse a good bit eh?

Well if this is a horse being led by a mongol, you'd be better off just digging a hole in the ground and never, ever returning to the open surface.

Isnt that how we often deal with overworld issues in this game?

[knutor]

A checkered drainboard kill box. 

9x9 Alternating automated hatches over a tightly sealed pool checkered with upright pulsating spear traps.  Link it all to five separate pressure plates spaced three blocks apart, in a corridor leading to the only booze pile in the whole fortress.

Suduku is the inspiration for this design.  Number the trap with notes for added FUN.  See if your drunken dwarfs can solve the puzzle, with their footfalls.  HEH!  Knutor

[Loud Whispers]

Well the mongols had a tactic of gashing a horses side to cause it to run in a panic, then pretty much guiding it into the enemy lines. However, that tactic tends to reduce the lifespan of your horse a good bit eh?

Well if this is a horse being led by a mongol, you'd be better off just digging a hole in the ground and never, ever returning to the open surface.

Isnt that how we often deal with overworld issues in this game?

And when has it failed?

...

Right.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Avoid the horse, stab it in the chest area, avoid the horse until I can get a new spear or retrieve my old one, repeat until dead or someone else intervenes. Or until I kill the horse, that's a possibility.

[Uthric]

you do it like that

[Melagius]

I've heard that some Greek armies used big maces to counter horses, focusing on breaking their legs to disable them.

[IT 000]

I've heard that some Greek armies used big maces to counter horses, focusing on breaking their legs to disable them.

Nah they just get kicked in the pit of death like everything else.

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Usually the best way to stop a Calvary unit from what I've read is to either involve a pike wall (not spears), disadvantageous terrain for horses, or have a hooked weapon that can pull the knight off his saddle (sometimes the knight would be strapped on to tightly and you'd get taken for a little ride if you're army failed to hold him down). Crossbows were essential though, but you'd need one or more of the above things for it to be anything other then easy pickings once the bolts hit the ground. None of these feats are easy, but the calvary unit was the tank of the medieval ages anyways.

It's worth noting that dwarves are given the short stick on the matter. Literally, they only have access to spears, and not pikes, which are considerably shorter.

[knutor]

With another horse and rider.  Joust.

[Lord Snow]

Oh and before i forget. I don't see this doing much in formations, but probably more in a skirmish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhanmadao

[GreatWyrmGold]

With another horse and rider.  Joust.

You're thinking too small.
A giant badger and rider!

[Hanslanda]

With another horse and rider.  Joust.

You're thinking too small.
A giant badger and rider!

A bronze colossus riding a giant badger wielding a dragon corpse. What were we talking about again?

[Kamamura]

Against a horse? Superbly trained war rhinocerae (?) in wedge formation, I guess.

[Greiger]

Flying ostrich cavalry.  Show that vulture buzzard bait how you truly joust.

[Hanslanda]

Anti aircraft 43 mm quad linked cannons. That's how a man deals with charging horses.