红星模型配件系列 1/72 古代兵人周边系列的级别或分类的周边单品
Cataphracts
Vendor code: 8067
Scale 1:72
Name "cataphracts" had be used for heavy armored cavalry where armour was
used for protection both horseman and his horse. Long lance was the main weapon,
however swords and, rather frequently, bows also had bееn used. Cavalry of such type
arose in steppes о! the Sarmatia. While having best over the world horses and living
in steppes the lndo-Aryan and Sarmatian peoples made horseman the cardinal
attacking force at battlefield. Exactly the Median and Scythian cataphracts о!
army о! Mithridates VI о! Pontus managed to throw back cohorts о! the Roman
legionaries during battle of Chaeronea thus got invincible Lucius Cornelius Sulla
into difficulties. Exactly the Parthian cataphracts during the battle of Carrhae routed
the Roman legions outnumbering in many times.