Cataphract, Clibanarii, whatever, against Infantry

[Aulus Perrinius]

Actually by I meant Cataphracts(fully armoured man on a fully armoured horse) however there's a big deal over whether or not cataphracts had horse armour and if it was only clibanarii who did or if those were just the eastern and western terms repectively for an armoured lancer on an armoured horse from the roman era. By whatever as you can see from my first post I meant lets just put aside the terminology contreversy for now.

What you mention about the chariots sounds like what Gustavus Adolphus a Russian Army and Charles X Gustav tried against the Hussars. Of course the risk of that tactic is that the cavalry might charge into your troops newly created flank's