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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 8562767" data-attributes="member: 15882">I use a mount for my halfling barbarian.  It has(had) a faster movement speed than my character.  Getting it to disengage and then move into/out of combat gave lots of mobility.  But it only had, like...5 hit points?  Until it was awoken at higher levels, got some hid dice and took the mobility feat.  Now it's pretty cool.  Overall, though, horses in most rpgs don't give significant bonuses other than extra movement and carrying capacity for travelling overland.If anyone was watching the Trucker Convoys in Ottawa, they used the mounted police to pretty good effect (only once) to push a line of protesters back to allow police to move their lines forward.  The biggest tactic there was that the horses were big and intimidating and the crowd flinched back.  The horses used their flanks and weight to push the crowd back.   Two poor people got knocked over and but weren't trampled.  But the crowd wasn't armed.  Only one guy (wielding a bike) allegedly hurt one of the horses. (although, the horse seemed to be fine the next day).  I imagine that tactic wouldn't work against polearm wielding foot-soldiers.</blockquote>