We can only make a simple comparison. Carlos didn't have much contact with horses in his memory in his previous life, but it is obvious that the horses in Azeroth are better looking than Blue Star's paper data.
Of course, you can eat it too
Horses need to eat grass, not only grass, but also beans, chicken, sugar, and salt. They can even chew meat when they are very hungry.
Haha, omnivore with vegetarian tendencies.
If it weren't for the undead natural disaster that polluted the land of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Carlos could have defeated the city of Lordaeron with just these 70,000 cavalry.
Unfortunately, that's where the problem lies.
The entire northern human society is doing its best to supply the army. Food and drink for 300,000 people will not be a problem in a short time. At least the masters are getting better and better at rubbing water, but the fodder for the war horses is really a big problem.
There are four well-known horse-producing areas in the Alliance. Apart from the Eastvale Ranch in Stormwind City in the south, the other three are all in Lordaeron.
The Alterac Plateau produces high-quality Alterac horses, which are powerful and large in size, have a slightly longer breeding cycle, are particularly good at eating, and have low yields.
The Arathi Highlands are rich in highland horses. Individuals with long endurance have large body size deviations, but the population is large. They have no special shortcomings and their food intake is average.
The Lordaeron horses in the Kingdom of Lordaeron are basically bunches of horses with no special characteristics. They cannot stand up to the former wealth of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. They can afford artificial breeding and are pretentious in their appearance.
It is precisely because the overall level of horse administration in the Lordaeron region is very high that it can still afford such a large number of cavalry after the undead disaster broke out.
But when people eat horse chews, no matter which logistics officer looks at the munitions list, the back of his head will feel numb.
In the Hillsbrad Hills, there was still a large area of pasture to feed the war horses. By the time they passed Silverpine Mountain Road, the quartermasters accompanying the army had been forced to the top of the sentry tower, crying for the cavalry to establish a position.
Therefore, Carlos knew very well how nonsense his order was, and it was completely contrary to military common sense.
As long as the undead disaster in Lordaeron drags on, Carlos's most powerful field group will have to return to Hillsbrad due to logistical problems.
What is thirty minus seven?
It was obvious that the Scourge commanders in Lordaeron, be they stupid or stupid, were frightened by the Alliance's stud tactics and followed AllIn.
This caused all the cavalry generals to start letting out rainbow farts without thinking.
"The Marshal is a true god, and the Scourge Legion actually gave up their strongholds and began to gather on their own initiative!"
The highly developed land of Lordaeron has convenient transportation, a road network extending in all directions, hundreds of towns dotted here and there, and several large city walls that are difficult to defeat. Even if the Alliance has a strength of 300,000, they can only defeat one village after another.
In a war of this scale, strategy is extremely important, but tactical strategies are pale and feeble. In many cases, the outcome of the war will simply return to a numbers game of where and how many enemies we have.
A large number of undead natural disasters scattered outside the city walls of Lordaeron gathered together, preparing to attack the waist of the Alliance army. Garithos, who was responsible for facing the enemy, was full of awe and blind faith in Carlos and made a judgment that the advantage was mine.
Whether it counts as planting a flag is a matter of opinion, but Garithos really feels that the advantage is on his side.
Have you prepared the cavalry and the grenade and explosive packs?
There are 70,000 cavalry, and the real heavy armored cavalry is actually only a little over 20,000.
Most of the remaining 50,000 cavalry were light cavalry, winged cavalry or even dragoons.
A year ago, such a huge cavalry group was able to destroy the Kingdom of Gilneas in just one week, but now it is not so effective against the undead natural disaster.
Because the number of undead natural disasters is too exaggerated.
Except for the heavy cavalry on the front, conventional light cavalry tactics are to outflank the enemy from both sides.
Bypass your battle line and attack the weak wings, defeating you morally and psychologically, and then use your mobility to pursue in tandem to expand your results.
The question is where did the undead natural disasters get their psychology and morale?
The result was that the light cavalry, which originally relied on mobility, were forced to use impact to injure the enemy.
Very stupid, very silly, very so-and-so.
This is the fundamental reason why Garithos can settle down in the Alliance with the help of eight thousand Lordaeron remnants.
Thirteen thousand of the current 20,000 heavy cavalry are from Lordaeron.
In other words, only the former Kingdom of Lordaeron had such a foundation and could have so much financial and material resources to reserve so many heavy cavalry players.
As for Alterac, the Barov family has been engaged in military warfare for more than 20 years, and only a few thousand can be used as heavy cavalry.
Don't think it's nonsense, every heavy cavalry is basically a "knight" or "knight reserve".
A qualified war horse is not something that ordinary people can afford. Coupled with the corresponding human armor and vest, and the cost of training the rider's professional skills, the heavy cavalry unit itself is the exclusive domain of the noble lords.
Before the new alliance chose to explode production capacity, everything was difficult. Now that steel production has increased, manpower is a big problem.
In line with the principle of employing people without suspicion and using them without suspicion, Carlos forcibly seized the command of the cavalry of Stromgarde and handed over the cavalry of Alterac to Garithos in order to maximize the expansion of combat effectiveness.
Now, the largest battle in the history of the Eastern Kingdom with cavalry as the main force has begun.
The enemy was a variety of undead troops estimated to number around 200,000, scattered across vast fields and countryside. The commander used F2A tactics to issue combat orders toward the central location of the alliance's military group.
On our side are 70,000 ready cavalry regiments and tens of thousands of second-line troops on the follow-up march.
How to fight, Garithos can decide on his own without even holding a military meeting.
Of course, fight it out!
The number of enemy troops is too large. If they think about digging trenches to set up gun towers and engaging in positional warfare and offensive and defensive warfare like the former army did, not to mention that they will waste the cavalry as an arm. The combat effectiveness and fighting will of the follow-up troops are issues worth thinking about.
Therefore, we must take advantage of the fact that the Undead Scourge has not yet assembled, take the initiative to take advantage of the mobility advantage of the Alliance Cavalry Regiment, take the initiative to delay the offensive of the Undead Scourge, and give the Alliance infantry time to assemble and rest.
After the infantry has completed its assembly and preparation, and uses the characteristics of strength in numbers to bring about a morale +3 effect, it can then go head-to-head with the undead natural disasters.
Garithos is a human racist, but he is not a brainless fool. He simply uses cavalry to fight head-on to eliminate 200,000 undead. Only when his brain is SHI can he do such nonsense.
So he felt that cavalry and explosives would be very effective.
Taking advantage of the high mobility of the cavalry and the reconnaissance advantage brought by the gryphon knights' air superiority, Garithos decided to carry out targeted attacks on the gathering points of the undead scourge. As a native of Lordaeron, he knew all too well that the undead scourge was like a river flowing into the sea. Where is the convergence point on the general march route?
Looking at the military report sent by Garithos, Carlos felt like he was seeing his old father who understood the war game.
Isn't it the Azeroth version of "Billions of Zombies"?
Garithos planned to use cavalry to spend the early military preparation period, reducing, blocking, and controlling the gathering of scattered troops of the Undead Scourge to the greatest extent. He would wait until the alliance rear team, which was also on the march, was assembled before engaging in a decisive battle with them.
It's pretty good. There's nothing wrong with the overall military strategy.
Carlos's reply has only one sentence - read.
There was no problem with the strategy, and the tactics were left to the combatants. Carlos knew very well that on a battlefield where the total number of enemies and ourselves was in the millions, if he jumped up and down and acted recklessly relying on his personal force, it would only have a negative effect on the development of the war situation.
The alliance's strongest combat power, the seal.
The top general of the alliance is online.
"Your Excellency, Marshal, the fourth trench has been lost. The Air Force reports that the City of Lordaeron has sent additional troops, approximately 30,000 in number."
Carlos drew a line on the map with his pencil, estimated the distance with the pen holder, and asked.
"How's the ammunition inventory?"
"There are still 33,000 rounds in stock. The inventory at the frontline positions is unclear. It is expected to last for another hour."
It's not that Carlos's staff officers are unprofessional, but that from the time of the Arathor Empire to the present, humans have never used artillery on such a large scale, and they are really inexperienced.
I think back then, when Carlos Hillsbrad was fighting orcs, he spent a week with the quartermaster for three thousand rounds of solid artillery shells.
Today, three thousand rounds of explosive ammunition are only half an hour's consumption of frontline artillery positions.
"The transport fleet will be able to dock tonight and keep a stock of 12,000 rounds. The rest will be deployed as soon as the frontline requests it, and then the cannons and bombs will continue."
