Thread:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/@comment-26863727-20160513191604/@comment-26084195-20160516195108

Aramirtheranger wrote: Eureka Enderborn wrote: Yes. Originally domesticated. But that certainly never stopped anyone later on in history who would take literally any advantage they could get if it was worth it. Yet these things have never been used like that. WHY? Because due to a total lack of writing the only reason the tribes in those parts even had iron was Carthaginians who introduced the process to west African traders who in turn introduced it to the tribes. And do you realize how crazy everyone else probably thought that Mongolian person ages ago was when they jumped on the back of a horse and tried to make it take them somewhere else? Horses lived in the Americas before the Spanish arrived; but the nomadic people simply ate them to extinction.

As for your first point, I merely point out that cavalry barely existed in Europe until the Huns beat the crap out of them from horseback, and were only defeatable after Rome pulled together some cavalry. Yes, all that is true. But why then has nobody, NOBODY ever taken advantage of these giant elands, even when we humans have taken advantage of just about everything we could? It's because giant elands are clearly less effective at the jobs a horse could do substantially better.

Aramir, why can't you use horses? It might not be unique but it makes a hell of a lot more sense.