OrangePanther
I don’t remember luke ever practicing with a war hammer. So how is he as strong as he is with it? Why don’t everyone use a war hammer since it doesn’t matter if it goes against armor? While I’m all for making luke look better than some others, try not to make the other people look completely inept. Also, how did no one kill the horses yet? That would be the first think people aimed for and since people had spears and arrows, it would have been an easy kill which would have put Luke and the others on leveled ground. Just some thoughts, anyways thanks for the chapter
Well, Luke's beaten Parmen Crane multiple times at the yard, but never received acknowledgement for it. He fought off two knights, armored and armed, at the tourney with just a tourney sword at 14. (Now he's almost 17) Further, Luke was essentially commanding 100 men, some cavalry other infantry men. Their horses did die, but Luke was essentially running parallel to their attacks, I think I managed to convey that by mentioning that Luke was picking off strays or charging through the lines to break them apart. In medieval cavalries, that's the essential tactic. Break enemy lines with a cavalry charge, or pick off from the sides. Luke did both. As for Warhammer, Luke picked it because he was going for Cavalry, it was either a hammer or a lance. (Swords are useless on horseback) Luke didn't do anything special (magical) he just used his options to the best possible limit. As for why his horse wasn't felled, Luke was at the helm of all the charges, and contrary to popular belief, it's *much* difficult to fell a horse at the helm of the cavalry, most that do fall either slow down, or are at the sides. (The horses are backed up by riders on either side, or just behind, those riders either have lances or maces, and their constantly defending the main horse, so his didn't fall) It was all luck.