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Originally Posted by blankall
I mentioned this earlier, but there's a reason that Genghis Khan was able to conquer the world with relative ease. Melee forces are pretty useless against mounted units. Especially undead ones that can't hold pikes properly. Houses at full charge generate a huge amount of power. An army of thousands of mounted Dothraki would have decimated the whights.
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The power generated by the horses doesn't matter to the wights. Getting hit and trampled by a horse will knock them down, but they'll get back up, meaning that any penetration through the ranks will just leave you surrounded when your momentum runs out after running into enough undead meat bags. Not a good position to be in for a mounted unit with a short sword.
Ghengis Khan and steppe armies didn't tend to charge head on against unknown numbers and formations, particularly ones that won't get rattled and shaken up by charging cavalry. Khan and Mongol tactics were about breaking formations, encirclement, harassment, feigned flight, and the use of ranged weapons on horseback better than any other army.