A Cunning Plan: Trample

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That is not completely true, before the 14th century most conflicts(mainly in europe) were won by the army with the most heavy cavalry. The military innovations that ended this trend were, mainly, the crossbow, gunpowder, and proffesional soldiers. The tool that allowed England to defeat the french knights at Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt was the longbow, but training in a longbow took almost as long as the training of a knight, making this yet one more obsolete technology. The true killer on the medieval and rennesaince battlefield was the proffesional soldier. These men, using polearms and crossbows, and eventually firearms, could kill vast numbers of warriors that had trained their whole life for war. The only problem with these innovations is that they have slowly crippled the fighting spirit of soldiers. But, back to my origional point, while there will always be casualties when fighting heavy cavalry with a force of infantry, a man on a horse is only viable, militarily, when he is moving. The notion that cavalry can stop, as they do in dom3, and still defeat infantry, is somewhat ludicrous.