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Chevalier
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 Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:56 pm Welcome to the Equestrian section! |
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Welcome to the Equestrian section!
This section has been created to discuss all things horses, including mounted combat, melee fighting, Skill at Arms, jousting, horsearchery, equipment, tactics, training, and much more.
To the horse! And the rider! And everyone and everything in between! |
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gt1cm2
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:44 pm |
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Excellent!!! right what shall we talk about??...... 
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did they beat the drums slowly
did the play the fife lowly
did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus
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stephan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:15 am |
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i think we sould talk about how to make ground to horse back combat
if their are alrady rules
then do tell |
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stephan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:16 am |
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also how to make cool looking emotocons? that sit on horses
i want that swings a sword |
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Chevalier
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:30 pm |
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| Quote: | also how to make cool looking emotocons? that sit on horses
i want that swings a sword |
Nowadays all you have to do is browse the internet, find the emoticon you like, click on it with right mouse-thingie and save. That`s pretty much it! |
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stephan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:20 pm |
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| cool will quest onwards |
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BigMac
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:27 pm |
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| gt1cm2 wrote: | | Excellent!!! right what shall we talk about??...... :D |
How about the best way for a footsoldier to take down a rider or his mount.
Not that most techniques could be used safely in what we do, but was there any sort of study/training in anti cavalry tactics for indervdual/small units?
TTFN
BigMac
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Callum
Sponsor
Location: Upper Hutt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:09 pm |
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| BigMac wrote: | | Not that most techniques could be used safely in what we do, but was there any sort of study/training in anti cavalry tactics for indervdual/small units? |
There are heaps of them. Ranging from attacking the horse's lower legs with the intention of bringing both it and the rider down through to a much safer choreographed takedown of the rider involvng three footcrew.
Obviously any tactic that has the potential to injure a horse cannot be used so "real battle tactics" while an interesting side topic are out. My only comment on real battle tactics are that horses are big animals that don't die easily and once down or injured will thrash about a lot so any real anti-horse tactic is about as dangerous to the people using it as it is to the intended target.
Pike/Spear blocks are really effective as horses generally aren't as stupid as their riders so they will not advance into such formations.
We have developed several "drills" where we train a small squad of infantry to remove the rider from the horse safely for all parties concerned. The standard three man drill seems to work well as we have trained a number of different people in its use and this drill forms the basis of our modern medieval battle re-enactment anti cavalry drill.
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Order of the Boar - www.jousting.co.nz
Order of the Boar Historical Foot Combat -
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Baroque
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:59 pm |
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| stephan wrote: | also how to make cool looking emotocons? that sit on horses
i want that swings a sword |
do you like my one?? 
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Baroque
Location: Auckland
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:11 pm |
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| Callum wrote: |
We have developed several "drills" where we train a small squad of infantry to remove the rider from the horse safely for all parties concerned. The standard three man drill seems to work well as we have trained a number of different people in its use and this drill forms the basis of our modern medieval battle re-enactment anti cavalry drill. |
We have done a bit of this "remove the rider from the horse training" too, it works fine but do make sure that the riders know how to breakfall properly first just in case the footcrew lose their balance, slip and drop you! 
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gt1cm2
Location: Wellington
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:24 pm |
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| Quote: | | do you like my one?? |
You know I tried to find one like that on many a forum but couldn't, decided I liked the pooping one as a replacement!
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did they beat the drums slowly
did the play the fife lowly
did they sound the death march as they lowered you down
did the band play the last post and chorus
did the pipes play the flowers of the forest |
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huscarl
Location: in the back of your mind
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:16 pm |
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any of you guys know how i can contact D 
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Chevalier
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:28 am |
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Hi Peewee,
I will let D. know that you seek contact.
Cheers |
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