Actually, the astonishing thing about the Mongols is how they fought most of their campaigns outnumbered. Wasn't the European force at Legnica much larger than the Mongol force?
Actually, the astonishing thing about the Mongols is how they fought most of their campaigns outnumbered. Wasn't the European force at Legnica much larger than the Mongol force?
Why do the Europeans lack scouting abilities?
The Mongols capturing/killing the scouts I can see, but that's different than the Europeans not knowing about scouting.
They did scout, but they didn't put the same emphasis on it that the Mongols did. The Mongols took it very seriously, often outmaneouvering enemies on their own territory, for what that's worth.
Bela scouting properly would have probably located Mongol engineers trying to bridge the river he meant to use as a shield, but he never did, for example.