Posted by: kdstubbs
« on: December 15, 2006, 02:53:41 PM »Father Tim
The Mongols were far from the unsophisticated army protrayed by Hollywood or bad novelist or historians. In fact they were one of the most sophisticated military systems since the Roman Empire--They conquered Sung China with an army of only 100,000 men organized into ten Tumen's of ten thousand each--Each Tuman was organized into ten Battalions of 1000 men, with ten companies of 100 men, with ten platoons of ten men. Each soldier had two or three horses trained to ride along side him, the soldier could change mounts at the gallop, and had two composite bows--one for long range, one for short. His quiver held various arrows designed for armor piercing, incendiary, explosive, signal, and for use against unarmored men. He carried a sabre, and a Lance. He had the stirrup for shock weapons--the Lance, and his army operated on a scale like no other in the Medieval World. The Mongol Army routinely operated on an operational front of 400 miles, with formations operating in concert to defeat the enemy.
They did us the feinted withdrawal to draw an enemy into chasing them until their horses tired, then turning to crush the exhausted enemy with multiple attacks.
Mongol discipline was a severe and harsh as the Roman Army (Romans had 23 different crimes that led to the death penalty--sleeping on guard duty being one). The last thing you did was to kill a Mongol Ambassador--usually led to the death of everyone in your town or city.
So Missile Weapons would be appropriate to the Mongols, but the Particle Beams might fit this bill as well.
By the way, a Mongol Archer could put up to eight Arrows into the Air before the first hit the target. Their weapons outranged even the English (really welsh) Long Bow.
The Mongols were far from the unsophisticated army protrayed by Hollywood or bad novelist or historians. In fact they were one of the most sophisticated military systems since the Roman Empire--They conquered Sung China with an army of only 100,000 men organized into ten Tumen's of ten thousand each--Each Tuman was organized into ten Battalions of 1000 men, with ten companies of 100 men, with ten platoons of ten men. Each soldier had two or three horses trained to ride along side him, the soldier could change mounts at the gallop, and had two composite bows--one for long range, one for short. His quiver held various arrows designed for armor piercing, incendiary, explosive, signal, and for use against unarmored men. He carried a sabre, and a Lance. He had the stirrup for shock weapons--the Lance, and his army operated on a scale like no other in the Medieval World. The Mongol Army routinely operated on an operational front of 400 miles, with formations operating in concert to defeat the enemy.
They did us the feinted withdrawal to draw an enemy into chasing them until their horses tired, then turning to crush the exhausted enemy with multiple attacks.
Mongol discipline was a severe and harsh as the Roman Army (Romans had 23 different crimes that led to the death penalty--sleeping on guard duty being one). The last thing you did was to kill a Mongol Ambassador--usually led to the death of everyone in your town or city.
So Missile Weapons would be appropriate to the Mongols, but the Particle Beams might fit this bill as well.
By the way, a Mongol Archer could put up to eight Arrows into the Air before the first hit the target. Their weapons outranged even the English (really welsh) Long Bow.