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Originally Posted by Sword-dancer
Yes, nice story but the Forests of middle europe donīt support large numbers of ponies and horse archery, german knights had slaughtered magyars and fought in the rusades, as well as frankish etc, the mongols were a long way from home without reliable support,
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If everything was forest,where did those german knights come from?
Mongol armys had best support of all contemporary ones and besides they needed less support than any contemporary one.
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Originally Posted by Sword-dancer
they couldnīt feed their ponies in this lands and their lines must be overstretched, that was a raid in both cases not an invasion
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They could feed them in:
Deserts of Mongolia and China.
Mountains of Himalayas.
Jungles of India,Burma....
Frozen Siberia
...but they couldnt in temperate European climate ???
Besides you could compare their ponys to goats.Western horses were better in every aspect to their ponys except food requirements.they compensated lower quality of their ponys by bringing 5+ remounts to have always fresh horse for battle.