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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StalkingBlue" data-source="post: 1489410" data-attributes="member: 645">There's been a fair bit of mounted combat in my Midnight game recently, after the PCs captured some warhorses. Also unoccupied horses tend to be hanging around in the combat zone when orcs are zooming around and might want to mount one (except as per Midnight rules, horses fear orcs because they smell the predator).  Some questions:   As I understand 3.5 rules, there's no facing and no 'long side' of a horse in 3.5, so the horse occupies four squares on a battle grid. Correct? Does that mean the rider is assumed to 'expand' so as to also occupy all four squares? In my understanding, consequences would be: - More opponents can gang up on and melee attack the rider than if he were to dismount.   - If the rider wields a reach weapon, he and his warhorse can attack in the same round only if the rider has Ride-By Attack.  Correct or not? Further, a potentially more 'creative' rules question:  If a warhorse actively attempts to throw its rider (or someone in the process of mounting it, e.g. because it is terrified of the rider), what rules do I use? Ride checks only? Escape-from-Grapple rules (possibly with a bonus for saddle and bridle and for any Ride skill bonus?)</blockquote>