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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4184440" data-attributes="member: 4937">My guess is that mounts are not considered part of the core experience of play of 4e, and as such you'll have to wait for support for it in the PH2 or so.  Maybe longer.However, when they do show up I expect (as others have suggested) that it'll give you new exploits which you can spend your actions on based on your level.  So either you can attack, or the mount can use its attack, or you will be able to use a minor action to make 'follow up' type attacks with the mount under certain conditions (like when you knock an opponent prone).   Riding a mount will be somewhere between getting an extra class and having a new suite of magic items.  I strongly suspect that the absence of the ride skill means that mounts will be treated much as rings or other tier specific enhancements.  You can ride a mount based on your level.  First level characters, if they have mounts available to them as an option at all, will have something like 'riding horse' which offers little or no combat advantages (for example, its additional mobility is gained only by spending a standard action and it has no attacks of its own).</blockquote>