Maoyuu Maou Yuusha Episode 11 Discussion

nseika said:
... so I heard it wrong then. I thought the Crimson Scholar's lecture in the flashback is about the need of local currency to each nation. That way, there will be less risk of something like the Eurozone crisis where inflation in one kingdom drags everybody down with it thanks to the unified currency.

Phaetons_Folly said:
The battle against the cavalry really pissed me off; there is no way that the infantry should have won that battle. I can see that the writers where heavily influenced by the Battle of Agincourt, but I don’t see crossbows pulling off the same feat in worse terrain. A crossbow would take around a minute to reload, so the enemy cavalry could easily make it to the trenches and only get hit with a volley of two.

The trenches themselves were impressive, but I was amazed that they were able to make such an extensive line with so few people in what I thought was very little time because it was an unannounced campaign. The density of soldiers in the trenches were remarkably low, so any concentrated attack at any point in the trench would easily pierce it and wreck havoc for the good guys because a crossbow would be useless in a trench.

However, if I was in charge of the cavalry, I would have just avoided the trench all together. It looked like the country was open enough that they could have ridden around the trench (if they got out of the canyon of a road).

What they should have done is imitated the Battle of Tours where Charles Martel used square formations of spearman to hold off the Islamic army that relied only on cavalry. The crossbowmen could be stationed on the inside and the spearmen would prevent the cavalry from getting to the crossbowmen.