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Gustavus Adolphus is known of course for reforming almost all aspects of military and war. He is one of those credited for bringing back shock cavalry after it's decline against the spanish tercio. His inspiration largely came from polish hussars, who fought with long lances and sometimes achieved success but sometimes were defeated by pikes. His solution was arming cavalry with firearms instead of lances.

What if he had witnessed more successes of polish hussars and less failures, thus becoming convinced that lances needed to make a come-back. Does this change the outcome of any major battles in the 30 years war? How does it affect the development of cavalry in general?
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