>those two centuries where Germans randomly became steppe nomads
>when you finish the main quest and just start fucking around with different builds
They got chased out of their traditional homes by steppeniggers who themselves were fleeing severe droughts in what is now Russia/Mongolia
The Germans were actually famous for cavalry, and the Romans frequently employed them as auxiliary cavalry forces in their armies. They called them "auxiliary" but they were completely superior to the Roman cavalry detachments.
>>18458666Why yes, Goths tomboy drink horse milk and dried meat for protein.(Art by NZL98)
>>18458666>Iranic-influenced German knight, Magyar-Polish hussarsSOVL
>>18458666>>18460808While I have no real idea of the Scythian influence on the Germanic tribes, it is incorrect to attribute heavily armed cavalry as a "steppe nomad" trait. The Cumans, Tatars, Kalmyks were not described as heavily armored and chivalric knights, but plundering raiders that were more concerned with the number of horses they could amass than whatever armor or weapons they could procure. If it is true that the use of heavy cavalry in Germanic tribes was the result of Scythian influence, it would be more accurate to describe it as just that: Scythian influence.
>>18460830Bro they literally settled in the Eastern European steppe
>>18460836That doesn't mean they necessarily had any commonality with Tatars or Kalmyks.
>>18460830Persian Knights
>>18460836>>18460837It should also be known that "steppe nomad" is a contentious term.
>>18460837Tatars and Kalmyks aren't the only nomadic steppe people so I don't know why you keep mentioning them like they define the term. They're not even the tribes that had the biggest impact on Europe.
>>18460837That's also coincidentally the period when the Goths developed their signature cavalry
>>18460846They are extremely well documented. The whole idea of fermented horse milk and "saddle meat" comes from them.
>>18460830The Goths in general (plus the many subgroups of “Goths” plus other tribes who migrated onto the steppe) didn’t have heavily armoured cavalry like Roman/Persian cataphracts, and the Germanic tribes have been using cavalry for centuries. Caesar compliments their cavalry, which was light and fast, and they probably also jumped down from horseback frequently to fight. Very different from the mass nomadic cavalry tactics or the organized lancers of the people to the south.In terms of steppe influence, certain Germanic tribes adopted things from the Scythians and Huns, like names, skull binding, and so on. There was some intermarriage as well. But a lot of these tribes who had the most contact with the steppe later became assimilated by the Romans or were more or less destroyed as coherent political entities
>>18459716Germans didn't exist until the 1800s.
>>18459724>O'Flavius, look!Kek
>>18459724No one cares about your shitty art, fag. The fact that you are proud enough of such lazy trite to put a name on it on an anonymous site is astounding. Fucking gross. Doesn't even look like a woman. That's a demonic alien creature.
>>18460868She's more woman than you'll ever be
>>18460837>>18460852Gothic already the generation's experience of horsemanship.
>>18460861But Germany use as political conference since 10th century.Despite using romans title.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moselle_Romance
>>18458666More like they become early cossacks.Then Huns come and they run away
>>18460830The late Romans were using heavy cavalry as well. Better stirrups and the ability to make longer better swords made cavalry way more dangerous than it had been in Caesar’s time. The later knights were simply a continuation of this process
