Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 747672" data-attributes="member: 1264">Re: Caltrops and HorsesHorseshoes only protect the outer rim of the horse's hooves. An inch of pointy metal in the middle of the hoof will still cripple the horse. They do get a +2 AC for "shoes or other footwear" and +3 or +4 natural armor AC (the caltrops description is a little unclear on this). Against a +0 caltrop attack, that's still pretty good! Not to mention that the rider can use his Mounted Combat feat to negate the hit. However, he can do that only once per round, and his horse gets a caltrop attack for each 5' it travels!They're called "branches" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />. If they've given at least some thought to defensibility, the treehouses should be high enough up in the trees to be safe from any lance attacks.The huts will are bound to have plenty of "murderholes": slits that the archers can shoot through while providing close to 100% cover. Underneath the huts is probably the least safe place to be. And chooping down a tree large enough to carry a sizeable treehouse is going to take several minutes (i.e. several tens of combat rounds, while the guys with the axes are being shot at continuously...)</blockquote>