For some reason I’ve been wondering about this. What would be the result if a fully armored knight and horse charged full speed at a car (say, a sedan) and struck it with his lance/spear? Would it significantly damage the car? The knight?
The lance glances impotently off the metalwork. The car takes the legs out from under the horse and the horse’s body crashes into the windscreen and roof of the car, crushing it and probably killing the driver, certainly killing the horse.
The knight is thrown across the roof of the car and sustains injuries consistent with a tumbling fall onto tarmac.
Just might possibly poke a hole in the radiator. Otherwise, same result.
I’m more interested in how they got the car onto a horse.
It was a Pinto.
A mustang surely
This should have been the opening sequence/narration at the start of each episode of Knight Rider.
I somehow overlooked the ‘parked’ term in the title - so there may not be a driver to be injured, and the horse might not actually fall fatally onto the car, but may instead refuse and throw the knight onto the front of the vehicle.
Knight gets arrested for public intoxication.
Surely a lance could punch through the bodywork at least.
As the knight charges in a mad fury, the horse gets spooked and bucks the parked car off of its back onto the knight, crushing him. The horse, now unencumbered, wanders off to eat some tall grass. Months later, some hikers come across the old car and get a whiff of death. Searching around they finally look under it and see the knight.
“WTF happened here?” they ask each other. “What was this nerd trying to do?”
Eventually they report it to the police, but nobody ever comes forward and admits to knowing the nerd in the armor.
Elsewhere, a mother is relieved to have her basement back.
And the car bursts into flame.
Lances usually shattered against wooden shields so probably not. Assuming we’re talking about a classic jousting lance.
Knights didn’t charge “into” things by the way. They’d charge past them, striking with the lance as they passed. Otherwise they’d be getting themselves and their horses injured each time which as you imagine is suboptimal.
My guess, in this scenario the knight charges past the car, smashing a window with his lance, and riding off before his angry ex-girlfriend comes out to see what that noise was.
Cavalry would sometimes try to trample people, but in no case would a horseman charge his horse into a solid object. That’s going to kill your horse if the horse obeys the command.
But looking more carefully, the OP isn’t asking what happens if the knight charges into the car. He’s asking what happens if he hits the car with his lance.
Right.
Probably a hole poked through whatever glass is facing the charge (I’m not assuming it’s the windshield, since the charge could be from the rear of the car for instance). Or a dent in the metal work. And a shattered lance in any case. Or a lost lance laying on the ground and the knight shaking his arm to work out the shock. Or the rider unhorsed, if he wasn’t set properly.
Not actually very interesting, really. Similar outcome to charging any immovable object. Makes me wonder why this is an authentic GQ, since the premise really feels more MPSIMS.
Come on now, we all know it was his mom’s car.
OP is fishing for a possible explanation to the car damage. The insurance adjuster is going to have questions about the pole sticking out the windshield; and the hoof marks.
A knight wouldn’t use a jousting lance, he’d use a war lance. And that would go right through my car body like a bodkin…Hell, that thing dents if you give it a sharp glance.
Well Undefined-sex Love Rhombus, I have say what a great question! After all, I can’t stop laughing like a cracked-up pistachio. Anyways, getting to the question. So in reality the knight’s inertia would jag him to the window whilst the horse gets run over. Even spear/lance has a key role of breaking the car; it’s effective penetrability on the the window is quite strong. Why is it? If you conceptualized how it would’ve gone “wrong”, just basically observing this stereotype, or to be specificity: The spear would have the a whopping 25% of just giving the car a K.O., so just think about. A knight rampaging on the street going to devastate a the Soccer mom car; only the knight grasping his spear/lance would account for 25% of the damage?! That’s true. Why? The fact is that if you critically thought this out, especially moose. Moose cause the majority of the damages. Amen.
All in all it’s what your behalf that would guide you
Jousting lances were *designed *to break - both as to mitigate the risks of serious injury, to help keep the score (broken lance meant “good, clean hit”), and for the jousters to look all badass : “I hit 'im so hard my weapon blew up”, “Yeah ! And I didn’t even flinch !”, that kind of thing.
War lances are/were a wholly different story. For one thing they had a, yanno, actually pointed tip with which to transfer the force of impact of the charge on as small a surface as possible and straight through the other guy ; instead of a wide, blunted one designed to not penetrate if at all possible. They were also made of sturdier wood and sometimes fitted with a metal core (whereas some jousting lances were hollowed out even)