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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by HarryHirsch on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:39PM (#25042343)
Yet at Morgarten the Swiss massacred a Habsburg force. Armoured knights need an open battlefield to be effective, in crowded terrain a force made up of peasant fighters equipped with polearms is clearly superior.
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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by nl on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:36PM (#25042603)
Polearms were always very effective against mounted troops, if they were disciplined enough to use them together.

Even in the Napoleonic wars the best defence against cavalry was the square with soldiers using bayonets on their muskets.

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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by medium_burrito on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:17PM (#25042529)
Peut-etre fondue et racelette est la vraie potion magique?
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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:40AM (#25043898)
Maybe fondue and hard cheese is the true magic potion.

So even my bad French can get the translation - it what does it mean? :-)

It smells like something out of Asterix - but what is the quote from?

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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by medium_burrito on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:55PM (#25048820)
Not a quote, just an Asterix reference- the savage tribes fighting off the (Holy) Roman Empire. Would be unseemly to make it in English.
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Re:Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:11AM (#25056809)
Thank you:-)
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