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Message: <blockquote data-quote="argo" data-source="post: 1595168" data-attributes="member: 5752">It depends somewhat on the campagin but don't underestimate the power of mounted archery.  Another player in a game I'm in is a mounted archery twink an boy he can lay down the pain sometimes.  For example: one time the party is ambushed in hilly terrain with poor visibility (mist).  We let ourselves get seperated at the start of the encounter so in front are the foward scouts and in back is a lone heavily armored fighter.  The enemy has archers in the hills and is also sending in waves of foot troops to attack us.  This player starts riding in great circles around the battlefield turning anyone he sees that isn't a friendly into a pincushion.  Meanwhile my monk with a 100' move is running back and forth between the two groups of defenders trying to act as reinforcements for both.  Needless to say if we had not had those two high mobility characters the battle would have been much worse.  The difference between the two?  My monk could only get in single attacks so I relied mostly on stunning/grapples to attempt to even out the odds for the defenders.  Meanwhile the horseman was taking out 2 or 3 enemy archers a round which was saving us all from taking a lot of damage.  By the end he alone had as many kills as the rest of the party put together.  There were several other scenarios where he kicked much *** and took many names, but I think you get the idea.Oh and all his archery feats are still useful even when he is (reluctantly) forced to dismount.  If mounted combat is at all a factor in your game it means you are fighting under the wide open skies, and the mobility offered by mounted archery is something most characters simply cant match without a good bit of magical help.  Don't underestimate the horse archers!BTW: this happened to be an OA game and Mr. "I love my horse a just a bit too much" was, of course, Unicorn clan.  Fear the Mongol archers indeed!  <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" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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