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>Herodotus, Book One, 80-81
"The reason for confronting the Lydian cavalry with camels was the instinctive fear for which they inspire in horses. Nor horse can endure the sight or smell of a camel.
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The ruse succeeded, for when the battle began, the horses turned tail the moment they smelt and saw the camels..."
Is this shit legit or another meme strategy like elephants?
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>>2651663
>Is this shit legit or another meme strategy like elephants?
Its true-ish. Horses can be frightened by the smell of camels, there are accounts of this from the crusades too.
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there isn't much of a reason to believe its wrong
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>>2651663
Legit
There's a reason the caliphs could expand so well, because cataphracti were useless without horses and that's what their armies were
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Why wasn't this a more popular strategy? He calls it a 'ruse' which suggests it was a fairly novel idea
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>>2651694
Because camels are hard to maintain in non desert areas, and apart from this one scare tactic are inferior to horses in every way
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