Where are my horses hoves?

[Aezeal]

imho iCH is right and the CB mod, Juzza and Dr D are wrong on this one (bad change)

[Aristander]

I would also agree with Ich.

[Nikolai]

Well, solution is obvious. Some horses should not have hoof attack - why would horse archer train his horse to trample. Other horses should have it. Just like it is now.

But by same reconning, light cavalry should be MUCH cheaper. Nomadic horse archers had often remounts - their lifestyle made it possible for each free man to feed many horse - contrasted to Westerners, where it took a village to pay for a few knights.

Right now, horse brothers, for example, are way too expensive. They should be barely more expensive than tribal archers.

[Sombre]

I'm ok with it either way, but I would prefer horse archers simply being cheap, not having the distinction between normal hoof and warhorse hoof, because it introduces another complication for adpating mods to work with CBM. Some cavalry should clearly have strong hoof attacks though - effectively any trained warhorse,.. and most people would agree that light cavalry in basegame are a total ripoff.

[Velusion]

Sombre said:
I'm ok with it either way, but I would prefer horse archers simply being cheap, not having the distinction between normal hoof and warhorse hoof, because it introduces another complication for adpating mods to work with CBM. Some cavalry should clearly have strong hoof attacks though - effectively any trained warhorse,.. and most people would agree that light cavalry in basegame are a total ripoff.

Agreed with everything here...

[Juzza]

That's where light hooves would balance things out a bit. Also we aren't thinking of horse archers here, horses trained for horse archers wouldn't ever need hooves for combat, but light cavalry, I just don't see why not.

[Humakty]

As the only way to represent horse efficiency in battle are the hooves attack, I think they should all have various degrees of it, as in CBM. Normally, a cavalry charge as a huge impact on the cohesion of a unit, which is not represented in Dominions.

Hum, think about it, would you like to be the chap directly facing a 4 to 5 hundred kilos beastie charging at 50 km/h ?

[lch]

I think that being mounted increases action points and defense, doesn't it? Balancing is another thing to discuss.