The Thin Red Line instead of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
It is need to consider the statistics of military casualties due to the use of cold weapons. In India such percentage was higher, but no too much.
In the classic mass fighting of Indian infantry with cold weapons (talwar+dhal against talwar+dhal) the penetration of armor (which in most cases was absent) by some kind of dagger was excluded.
Of course, someone once could pierce someone else using a dagger with a strong tip. But it was most likely cloth armor of infantryman and it was not a traditional warfare. There is no evidence of this in the chronicles yet.
Heavily armed horsemen were being knocked off from the horse to the ground and then a throat was being cut. And then - a head.
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