It's funny how every invading Nomadic army since the Huns, when they invade Europe stop in Hungary raid a little around, but fail to destroy or dominate the sedentary states further west, and the Huns was only able to force that dominance as long as they had some Germanic vassals who could enforce their rule.
Maybe people should just accept that western Europe, which honestly is the part of Europe which mattered historical, is not really a area which lent itself to fast takeover by Nomadic armies and their warfare. Eastern European cavalry was always more impressive than western one, but the first East Europeans (the Russians) who did well against West Europeans was ones who fielded large infantry armies.
Of course let's say that the horse archers is the kind of supermen at warfare. What are the investment? How do it compare to heavy cavalry which we know was extremely efficient against infantry. Let's say that you can either invest years in training some dude to use shot a bow from a horse back or you could simply find a second son of a nobleman, who is a trained horseman, have been trained in trained in the tradition melee weapons. So you simply just needed to pay for that guy's upkeep. I don't know if the horse archer is better than heavy cavalry and he may be cheaper when he have been trained, but it's less time consuming to use a kind of warfare, which the general population (or a minority among them) train for indirect or direct.
Maybe people should just accept that western Europe, which honestly is the part of Europe which mattered historical, is not really a area which lent itself to fast takeover by Nomadic armies and their warfare. Eastern European cavalry was always more impressive than western one, but the first East Europeans (the Russians) who did well against West Europeans was ones who fielded large infantry armies.
Of course let's say that the horse archers is the kind of supermen at warfare. What are the investment? How do it compare to heavy cavalry which we know was extremely efficient against infantry. Let's say that you can either invest years in training some dude to use shot a bow from a horse back or you could simply find a second son of a nobleman, who is a trained horseman, have been trained in trained in the tradition melee weapons. So you simply just needed to pay for that guy's upkeep. I don't know if the horse archer is better than heavy cavalry and he may be cheaper when he have been trained, but it's less time consuming to use a kind of warfare, which the general population (or a minority among them) train for indirect or direct.