"cavalry armed with both lance and crossbow" Topic
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| Drocton | 17 Dec 2022 11:56 p.m. PST |
Hello, I'm looking for references to cavalry armed with both lance and crossbow (I'm assembling the Perry plastic light cavalry, which has both options, great kit by the way). There are many pictures of heavily armed knights or light cavalry shooting crossbows, but I can't find a single one with both weapons at the same time. Italian lords of the period had bodyguards of mounted crossbowmen, and I find it strange that, as bodyguards and picked troops, they didn't carry lances too. One possible solution which occurs to me is that their pages actually carried the weapons, so that they only wielded one at a time, in action. |
| uglyfatbloke | 19 Dec 2022 5:12 a.m. PST |
Pretty much an either/or thing I think. I can't really envisage either having pages. |
| The Last Conformist | 20 Dec 2022 12:15 a.m. PST |
In late medieval Central Europe (Germany, Poland, Prussia, etc) you could find cavalry armed with both crossbow and spear/lance. I don't have any refs or pictures at hand, but there are ones in Uwe Tresp's Söldner aus Böhmen. |
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