Interested in Roman Riding?

[John Conyard]

Well public shows should be entertaining and educational. Many people beleive tha cavalry could not charge into infantry, anbd this is sometimes reflected in debates on this forum.

Jurjen is currently thinking about his show and what to put in it. Comitatus generally includes a section where the horses do go through a shield wall, at least one at the gallop. This shows the public it can be done and the infantry formation can be broken easily.

I think we all appreciate this would be a costly way of fighting. Perhaps something a horse would do just once. But it can be done. The question is not "will horses charge into solid objects", but rather "will infantry stand a cavalry charge".

Certainly worth a 4 minutes slot in a 30 show!