However, since horses have been bred to be larger and it is now possible to ride them directly rather than having to harness them to a chariot, chariots have gone out of fashion both in Scythia and among the Celts. The Celts who taught us about them had themselves got them by copying peoples living further East it is thought that the chariot was first developed somewhere in the plains of far away Scythia. War-ChariotsĬhariots first began to be used on my island around the sixth century BCE, traded from across the sea. Obviously they are far more complex than that in execution: you can have a look at mine after class if you wish.

This concludes our basic description of a chariot. These are designed to cut men in half and cut horses legs off when driving through enemy formations, and they are ruthlessly effective. On the wheels are stuck massive great pointy thingies. In this way it can trundle along at very high speeds (up to fifty miles per hour and more at times). Either one, two or three men stand in the chariot, which has wheels.

The two horses are yoked together and the yoke has the chariot on the other end. In battle, chariots tend to be drawn by only two horses, for otherwise they become too difficult to turn, but four-horsed chariots are a common sight at races. Chariots are fighting platforms on wheels which are drawn by either two or four horses. I shall attempt to give a broad overview of how they work. The Celts build them one way, the Egyptians another, the Greeks think they know best and use yet another. There are many different kinds of chariot.

Many mistake my name for Eporedorix, which is perhaps more fitting: it means Chariot-King. Well, I am Edorix, and I shall be your teacher. You wish to learn how to wield this deadly contraption. Able to decimate cavalry and shatter by sheer weight most infantry formations when used correctly, it is also among the most deadly. The chariot is among the most flash units you will find in our world.

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