User blog comment:Samurai234/Winged Hussar vs. Rajput Warrior/@comment-98.119.207.233-20120928020710

The use of the lance in ground combat is not even in the realm of how they fought. The lance was a completely horse mounted weapon. At 13-18 feet long it is extremely unwieldy, yet it is not heavy. The Polish lance is surprisingly light because of how it was constructed. It was made of soft wood, cut into a pole then split down the shaft and hollowed out. It was then glued back together and wraped with cloth and painted. There are brass plates sometimes set at intervals along the length to give it strength. A large wooden ball called the " apple" sits above where the rider grips the shaft. This process had only 1 purpose, to shatter on impact and send hundreds of pieces of schrapnel flying thus killing and wounding more than one man with one lance. This was a Shock and Awe weapon.