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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pvandyck" data-source="post: 843344" data-attributes="member: 6885">Our group also went rounds and rounds about this.  We have an 8-page adjudication document (including all rules references we could find) about this.In our group, it works like Artoomis says, too.  However, I don't think mounted combat is as nerfed as kreynolds thinks.  It's not great or even that cool for people who aren't geared for mounted combat, but when you are geared for mounted combat, it's cool.You subsitute the move of the mount (which is much greater, for a horse) for your move.  I've used this to be all over the battlefield, getting a single attack on anyone I chose.  Remember, the mount can hustle, run or sprint all over the place for you, and you still get that one swing.  If it moves more than a single move, it doesn't get it's attack (big deal).Get a lance (which I have strapped to my horse, just in case) and you have automatic double damage with a charge.  Not mention reach (which can get a little hairy, because of the horse taking up 2 squares, but we allow the lance to attack squares to the sides, not just in front of the horse - nothing says you can't, so...)All melee attacks are at +1 for higher ground.Combine these mundane tactics with the mounted-appropriate feats like Mounted Combat - Ride-by-attack, and high ride skill, and you can be very dangerous.  Just not a Full Attacking dangerous.  Which really, is okay.  If you are fighting a high-level full attacking fighter, he'd have to ready an action (one swing) just to hit your ride-by-attacking, automatic-double-damaging, reach-weapon-wielding butt.pvandyck</blockquote>

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