Ostrich Cavalry???
 

Well, I guess I can blame this on the meds I'm currently on as I'm recovering from a nasty case of stomach flu over the weekend.....ugh.

Sooooo....

Ostrich Cavalry. Yes, you read it right. We know that animals such as horses and mules will see more use in a Twilight 2000 scenario for transporation, but what about ostriches? They can cover great distances, they're quick, might not be ideal for carrying heavy loads, but certainly could be trained to ferry a small platoon of troops/militia/marauders on various raids, recon, that sort of thing.

Just imagine...as your small band of men and women in Poland crest over the hill to get a view of what's ahead, what comes trodding toward them than none other than a group of armed riders on ostriches? Their reaction may look like a combination of this: :confused::eek:

(Okay, okay, so you don't find ostriches very often in Poland...unless they escaped and/or were bred from a zoo. It could be some other place like somewhere in Africa....)

Well ostrich and even emu farming was starting to make it's way into Europe during the late 1980s because the meat from both birds was being sold in some restaurants and was too expensive to import.

OK! You're on something better than my Tylenol 4...

Hey, I should get some more of this, imagine what other ideas I might start posting here....

Yeah man, this is GOOD SHIT!

ostrich racing
 

I found this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich#Racing

Racing I can see and is real. An ostrich carrying a man fully laden with weapons, armor, etc -- that I don't think is practical.

Slightly OT, but until about 700 years ago New Zealand was home to the largest raptor that ever lived, the Haast's Eagle. It was big enough to kill humans (and according to Maori legends was known to do so). It's normal prey was the Moa, a flightless bird similar to the modern Emu and Ostrich, but substantially larger.