I mean, generally speaking, sending pikemen against a people famous for riding horses sounds smart to me lol
Yeah, I don’t understand why people are confused by this. Haha
It is said he rejected reason for madness.
He had sappers. And yeah Pike beats horse.
meanwhile Gandalf makes a cavalry charge down a waaaaaay too steep hill towards the aforementioned pikemen
but he had the power of “making it really bright” on his side, and we all know that this is the achilles heel of all pikemen everywhere!
Aren’t Uruk Hai really sensible to light? So the riders had vision, the high ground, morale and momentum on their side.
Pikes are pushed against/into the ground, so neither morale nor momentum will do you any good against them. Discomforting the pikemen will also not do anything, since pikes and their use in formations are designed for that to happen. If you get charged by a fuckton of cavalry, you are bound to flinch anyway and you weren’t supposed to actually do anything with the pike but push it into the ground if you were charged. The momentum is provided by courtesy of the attacker. So the downhill movement and the momentum are a disadvantage against pikes.
And I’m not even counting the fact that horses will not charge walls of spiky things. They are living beings with a mind of their own. A fact that we tend to forget nowadays. But I’m willing to let that one slide, perhaps there was some super special sauce training only known to the horse freaks of Rohan that made them go through with the charge.
Ghandalf did not pass through fire and death to bandy words with a witless worm such as yourself. It was magic light, that did magic things. Okay?
