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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azlan" data-source="post: 1287864" data-attributes="member: 2340">In the many history books that I've perused, I've never seen a picture or read an anecdote of a combatant using a 2-handed melee weapon while mounted. I've never even seen this sort of thing done in the movies, historical or fantastical.I realize that in D&D (as in real life), you can hold onto and guide your mount with your legs, thus enabling you to fight with both your hands. However, you are still fixed in place below the waist, which limits your combat maneuvers; and then there is the mount's neck and head being in the way; thus the use of a 2-handed melee weapon while mounted should be severely if not entirely limited.There are a good number of rules for mounted combat in 3.0/3.5 D&D, yet the issue of using a 2-handed melee weapon while mounted is not addressed. (At least, I can't find any rules regarding this.) You can use a missile weapon 2-handed, albeit with severe penalties (and even with the Mounted Archery feat, those penalties are only reduced to half). But the dynamics for using a 2-handed missile weapon are very much different from those for using a 2-handed melee weapon, while mounted.While mounted, you can use a 1-handed melee weapon and a shield, or a 1-handed melee weapon and a torch (or a banner or a pistol or whatever), but can you also use a 2-handed melee weapon while mounted? (Or, for that matter, can you use two melee weapons, one in each hand, against the same opponent, while mounted?)Perhaps a 2-handed melee weapon (or two melee weapons) can be used while mounted against an opponent who is likewise mounted, albeit even that usage would suffer attack penalties.Whatever. A combatant wielding a greatsword or a greataxe, 2-handed, while mounted -- especially against an opponent on the ground -- seems absurd to me, even if it's D&D.</blockquote>

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