Mounted Slingers

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Icelander

While there have been instances in history of inexplicable bloody-minded resistance to innovation, in the long run, if something works well enough so that people with it have a much easier time killing people without it, it gets adopted by every military power capable of fielding it.

Slings weren't used for war just two hundred years. Horses and slings have some thousands of years of coexistence as weapons of war. If combining them was practical and effective in combat, the overwhelming odds are that it would have been done.

Not sure coexistence necessarily means proper use. Domesticated horses and warfare coexisted since, what, 4500 BC? And they [stirrups] became seriously used in Europe around, what, 600 CE?