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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Choranzanus" data-source="post: 4509527" data-attributes="member: 43291">I do understand what you say but disagree<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />On the other hand you perhaps do not understand what I say.First, let me remind you again that knights can attack spearmen long before the spearmen reaches the knight and horses can maneuver rather well, they can for example stop rather quickly from trot. I never claimed that knights can attack pikemen, thought they can perhaps pretend the attack. While morale is a major factor on medieval battlefield, knights are more than just psychological force. If defending force is to break formation before the attack, the danger better be real.The knights did not lost those famous battles because they flinched, but because they did not. It is not that they followed through the charge and got impaled but because charge was in fact impossible. At Courtrai there were ditches around battlefield. At Crecy there was the ridge. At Agincourt there was mud. At other battles knights charged uphill or into rocky terrain. Narrow or narrowing places are a real bane of knights, but they often failed to realize that. At other times knights charged into pincers and were slaughtered from flanks.The point was that knights often got so overconfident in the face of infantry that they abandoned sound military tactics.</blockquote>

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