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Arralen said:
Doesn't work normally. Horses don't do that. And Riders won't try at all.
Only exception: by accident. But this would be a single occurance, which is covered by a triple-6 roll on the open ended roll...
The whole point of pikes etc. is to break up the carge of the mounted troops, and than either A) counter-charge the disorganized riders from the side or B) have other troops attack them while they try to draw away. or c) have bowmen decimate them.
So, basically, any very long weapon should give a big bonus to defense against riders, not to damage.
But if we look at very large monsters, things are quite different. Those could very well try to crash to the wall of spear points - but they should have adequate natural protection.
Berserked or mindless work as well, but they wouldn't get additional damage - the foot soldier simply wouldn't be able to keep the pike/spear etc straight. 1 point repell damage is to few, though.
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So you can't train a horse well enough to try that ?
Didn't heavy armed mounted troops like parthian cataphracts or medieval knights try this occasionally ?
In RTW a few horses jump occasionally straight into the phalanx over the first few lines . To me this looked realistic but i have no experience how well you can drill a horse .
Is this in theory possible ?