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The bane of saddle-cloth using weaklings.

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Towards the end of the first century AD, the personal guard of Germanic leaders would have been drawn from the best warriors of his warband. Earlier Germanic leaders also surrounded themselves with picked warriors, but it is less clear from what pool they were recruited in those times. A plausible guess is that they were drawn from his kinsmen. These men form the elite of early Germanic units. Considering the danger posed by unarmored Germanics, these well-armored ones are force to be reckoned with indeed. Like all Germanic cavalry, they are particularly adept at taking out enemy cavalry.

According to Caesar, the Suebian horsemen were particularly eager to engage enemy cavalry. Especially if said enemies used saddle-cloth, since the Suebian considered such trappings to be the mark of effeminate weaklings. Such was the fury that the very sight of saddle-cloth inspired in the Suebians, that Suebian cavalry was immediately struck with a compulsive urge to charge and tear their weakling users out of their cushioned saddles. Regardless of by how much the saddle-cloth using cavalry outnumbered them, the Suebians would charge recklessly at them, in full confidence that their victory was assured.