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The other thing to keep in mind was that while we tend to think in terms of the West, especially Italy and Holland, where pike and shot was the preferred method for infantry to cope with cavalry; in Central Europe and further East where there was perhaps more open ground it was the war- wagon, the tabor, which was the preferred method, and the latter was apparently quite effective indeed, at least with good well disciplined troops. Notably the Czech Hussites and later, the Cossacks, who used this tactic effectively for centuries against both the armored Western heavy cavalry and the nomadic horse-archers of the Turks and the Mongols. The Germans and Hungarians and others also used this system in different variations.

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Here the challenge for cavalry wasn't as much about out-reaching the enemies pikes but getting at them behind their moving wooden fortress without getting shot or knocked off your horse with a flail.


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