re: Alexander the great vs Genghis Khan

I think a big key that most are overlooking is the numbers game. One of the Mongols biggest strengths was the horde. The sheer numbers would help them overrun people but in this scenario the numbers are even. And let's not act like Alexander didn't know how to attack a faster army

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Light cav is the answer to heavy cav. You realize this right? Heavy horse was used against infantry as a means of punching a hole. Not as an anti horse unit.

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yes and you realize that Alexander had experience fighting light cavalry right? The Persian cavalry was made up almost entirely of it.

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One of the Mongols biggest strengths was the horde. The sheer numbers would help them overrun people but in this scenario the numbers are even.

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Bzzsssttttt. Wrong again.

The real advantage to the Mongols was the newly created feigned flight tactic as well as the sheer ability of the horse archers with their compound bows.

Feigned flight had never before been used as a major tactic in warfare until the Mongols. And that tactic is what made them so effective.

And this tactic would have absolutely destroyed the Macedonians in any terrain they could maneuver in. The heavy horse would tire. The heavy infantry and the phalanx that the Macedonians utilized so well would absolutely crumble.

Do you know anything at all about ancient war tactics?

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yes and you realize that Alexander had experience fighting light cavalry right?

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Sigh. He has experience with light CQ Horse. Aka scout horses that fought with sword/spear.

Good ole baw Alexander had zero experience with the feigned flight or sheer talent of the Mongo horse archers.

You're quite literally comparing apples and oranges in terms of what horse Alexander faced and the horse that the Mongols utilized.

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Ancient warfare and history is interesting af to me.

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same even if we disagree I love the debate

Why isn't Hannibal on here?

Sure he's not great at end game strategy, but his battle tactics were superior

Phalanx went obsolete by Roman legion. 1500 year difference between Alexander and the Mongols.
Genghis beats all armies in world history until the use of firearms in warfare.

Wait, you realize that they basically held all of China and defeated what was essentially 2 of the highest population centers in the world, right? And killed some 20-80 million people. I don’t think overrated is the word you were looking for.

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always thought the Mongols were slightly overrated

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Not. At. All.

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But most of it was vast emptiness and they never could penetrate the higher populated regions of Europe, India or China

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Uh.... What? LINK
Baghdad falls. The center of the Islamic faith. Destroyed untold amounts of knowledge and innovation with the destruction of the Baghdad library.

He also was the first to conquer China as an outside force with the defeat of the Jin dynasty, Western Xia, the Dali Kingdom and the Southern Song. LINK


So...You were saying?