>>18369094
because if and when the enemy cavalry reaches you, it won't end well?
or, depending on your range, even the enemy infantry.

>>18369094
They're called dragoons

Also, they were too expensive. Horses are very hard to feed and warehorses even more so.

>>18369108
>because if and when the enemy cavalry reaches you
You can just mount up and retreat and then encircle the enemy.

>>18369114
you have to unmount, form up, fire, remount before the enemy crosses your shooting range. which is not big with any of those weapons.
and then outride the enemy, whose horses are as fast as yours.

>>18369112
but no one fields just dragoons. generally a completely homogenic army is rare.

>>18369125
You can't just continuously charge an enemy, they'd have to reform at which point they'd be well behind enemy lines.

>>18369129
so you keep some of your forces dismounted in the back and send some to advance, dismount, shoot, retreat?
and when the enemy advances, you keep retreating?

>>18369094
Because it would be a drastically more expensive army that doesn't offer any real advantage while also having a glaring downside of being weak to enemy cavalry charges. If you have to dismount to fire a projectile then that defeats the purpose of them being on horseback to begin with, just stick them with the pikes and artillery.

>>18369094
You don't have to dismount to shoot and the whole point of cavalry is that they go faster.

Horsemen with ranged weapons are overrated by amerimutts who always exaggerate & blow out of proportion any non-european power. If they were really effective more people would've employed them.