genious idea about horses !

[pepejul]

that isn't tournament armoured horse...

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I know.. second one is an elefant...

[elvis1325]

In fairly sure armor for horses were used in that era, as joker said, with advances in weaponry armor for horses became a must. And guns weren't common enough to make armored horses obsolete. The cataphracts of the Byzantines and the teutonic knights used barding a lot, a simple cloth protects against an arrow a lot more than nothing. They did have lighter cavalry for speed which had no barding, I know the winged hussars (when are these guys from again? 1500s I think)  didn't use barding and they had huge armor. I guess it depends heavily on place and time.

[Axel Raby]

I guess this was a single special case, and most likely the book was referring to the Lithuanians, because I am quite sure the Polish and the Teutonics did armour their horses.

As I think about it now - probably yes, because of the needed crushing power of the cavalry charge, to break through enemy lines.

I found this link after short googling, and you could probably find many more if you spend some time.

What I want to say - I didn't really focus on the horse armor in medieval times, but more overall about battles and all of those knights fighting with each other. If something that I said is false - sorry then, but I remembered that when I was reading some article. At list I wasn't wrong in 100%. Thanks for the discussion.

Greetings.

[Joker86]

What I want to say - I didn't really focus on the horse armor in medieval times, but more overall about battles and all of those knights fighting with each other. If something that I said is false - sorry then, but I remembered that when I was reading some article. At list I wasn't wrong in 100%. Thanks for the discussion.

Greetings.

You're welcome. We are just discussing and talking. I invite you to join the historic discussion forum, we have some interesting topics going on there, currently we are talking about how melee really was in the middle ages.

[CrazyCracka420]

Just some general info to get you started (about horses in the middle ages and armor on horses):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_the_Middle_Ages

[Prpavi]

Just some general info to get you started (about horses in the middle ages and armor on horses):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_the_Middle_Ages

It's really difficult to find an authentic horse armor, most of in on display nowdays is from tournaments.

I recently visited Musée de l'Armée in Paris with an incredible amount of armors both horse and human, but most of them were tournament armors.

Infact only armors I saw that were actually used was half of a Ghotic plate and a Memeluk horse, rest was all 15/16 century tourney armor. Oh and the kickass Samurai armors and katanas