Mounted Combat
Mounted Combat (Search Tags: Mounted Combat, Horses, Horse Movement, Charge) Still need to still add notes for the Yomari Emphasis and Horse Archery. Also links to the Horsemanship skill and other relevant items. *** What are the stats for horses and mounts? The FAQ can be found here: http://kuroiban.net/files/folders/third_edition_extras/entry54311.aspx Are there different classes of horse, such as war horse and pack horse? FAQ Q. Where are the stats for horses? A: You can find the stats in the table below. Rokugani Steed Earth 2 Stamina 4 Water 3 Strength 6 Fire 1 Agility 2 Air 2 Kick attack to hit: 2k2 Kick damage: 4k2 TN to be Hit: 10 (15 at a gallop) Wounds per wound level: 8 The Gaijin Riding Horse Earth 3 Water 3 Strength 6 Fire 1 Agility 2 Air 2 Kick attack to hit: 3k2 Kick damage: 6k3 TN to be Hit: 10 (15 at a gallop) Wounds per wound level: 10 The Utaku Steed Earth 3 Water 3 Strength 6 Fire 2 Air 2 Kick attack to hit: 3k3 Kick damage: 6k3 TN to be Hit: 10 (15 at a gallop) Wounds per wound level: 12 Special: Riders gain one Free Raise with any action that uses the Horsemanship skill. Also: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=30550&p=504439#p504439 Horses double their Water Ring when determining movement. (Water x2 x10 feet per round.) Unicorn horses have 1 rank of Fleet. Utaku battle steeds have 2 ranks of Fleet. Could you give me some examples of how the Horsemanship skill could be used in mounted combat? Without the Horsemanship skill, you must use a Complex Action for making unskilled Horsemanship rolls and thus cannot normally Attack. If you have Horsemenship at 1 or more, then you do not normally need to make rolls at all to control horse in combat. When doing so, you may use your horse’s movement instead of your own in combat. While mounted on a Rokugani Steed and with Horsemanship of 1, the steeds movement is 60 feet per round (Water 3 x2 <horse> x10 <movement>) and thus your effective movement for the round is 60’. You could use your one free Simple Action half move 30 and make a normal attack using the Attack Action.You could also draw your weapon with your Simple Action, then use the movement in the Attack Action to half move a total of up to 30’ and then attack. You could even use the movement in the Attack Action to move 60’ and attack if you make a Raise. You cannot use the Full Attack Posture while Mounted unless you have Horsemenship 3 or higher. These rules are presented on in the Third Edition Main rules page 102 under the Horsemanship skill and on page 168 under the “Ride a Horse” Action. Do you recieve additional dice for charging (as calvary are known to do) vs just fighting horse to soldier? There is no special benefit to attack while mounted, but your GM may give you the Higher Ground Bonus (page 169) of -2 TN to your Ranged and Melee attacks when attacking a non-mounted foe and give the non-mounted foe +2 TN to their own Ranged and Melee attacks. Archery while mounted imposes a +10 TN, yet the Daikyu bow reduces penalties for range by +10. It says "range penalties", but the +10 TN on horseback is listed under "range", even though it isn't a -range- effect that is imposing the penalty. So does this mean the penalty and benefit are washed out? Does the benefit ONLY apply to range increment penalties? They are separate penalties and bonuses. The +10 penalty for firing on horseback is separate from the +10 penalty from firing on horse back listed for the Hankyu and yumi. They are all also not range penalties. The Daikyu also does not reduce the range “penalty” for point black from +0 to -10. To reduce the +10 penalty from firing from horseback you need the Horse Archery Emphasis for Kyujutsu. This emphasis ability does NOT remove the specific +10 penalties for firing from horseback that the hankyu and yumi have. How about mass combat? Any special considerations for calvary units, or mounted archers? Mass Combat uses the Mass Combat rules starting on page 204. They only listed bonus or penalty for Calvary in mass battles is -3 for raining on the field to the general’s Mass Battle roll. If a Heroic opportunity results in a skirmish, the same rules for being mounted as I described above apply.

Those rules doesn't sadly give much advantages to cavalry.

I'm going to give it a search when I get the hance, but I believe that it was stated by Shawn at one point that Horses movement was doubled after the ranks of fleet were added in. I'll see if I can find it. EDIT:Scratch that one above. I did the search and Shawn did indeed state that the fleet was added in after the doubling.

Can the horse attack as you are attacking too ?

I would also like to suggest that we show the net impact of TN use with each type of Bow when it is fired from horseback.

You can get a couple of benefits from riding a horse, the biggest issue comes with having the horse attack on command. Commanding the horse to do anything else but move is a complex action (skill use, Animal Husbandry(Horse)). Horsemanship 10 allows you to command the horse using a simple action, thus freeing both you and the horse to attack. Heart of Nature also allows you to command an animal with but a thought, so you can command them to act as a simple action as well. Rank 5 Horsemanship allows you to give your TNtbH to your steed, making it quite hard to kill, Horsemanship 7 is the bonus though, as it gives you a free raise against infantry in melee. Combine this with Riding Armour, and Cavalry rocks. +16TNtbH and no TN penalties, faster moving than most infantry, a free raise against infantry, and the ability to use the Daikyu without penalty, also allows use of the Lance... All in all, Cavalry Pwn infantry.