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istra-ish-sucha-geek · 11 days ago

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This was hilarious.

Also my baby sibling is a horse archer, and they know a lot about their sport, and I have been subjected to the same lecture about the Mongolian army and horse archery three times this week (it’s still fascinating), and uh …

You’re using your horse archers wrong.

I mean, it clearly all worked out, and that’s brilliant. I just…

I’ve heard the lecture three times now, and that’s … that’s all I could think about.

first day as a second century warlord i have my men tie branches to their horses’ tails to stir up dust and make it look like there’s a lot of us but i forget it just rained so there isn’t any dust and the enemy can clearly see there’s like twenty of us all spread out in a line

#horse archery #Ridgeline mounted archers #no seriously I’ve heard it three times #maybe more #but They’re very entertaining #and I love a good infodump #also I am the reason they are this way so like #i enjoy it tbh #but yeah #horse archery is for zippidy fast flying stabby intimidation death #there’s a bunch of different moves and formations #and like horse archery is a big reason the Mongolian army was so heckin effective #you might use regular archers for a ravine ambush I guess #but the horse archers would be either charging up the ravine in a group #or fake fleeing #or doing some other terribly strategic move that would make you regret everything #at least as far as I understand from the lecture

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