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Topic Subject: Mount/dismount!

Chilly5
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posted 14 April 2005 18:51 EDT (US)

I dunno if u could but i heard in medevil that u could mount and dismount but even if u couldnt i think that u should be able to dismount and become inf and mount to become cav, which brings me to another thing: when a cav soldir dies, i dont think it should always be both man and beast fall, sometimes, the man dies and the horse runs amok and other times the horse dies and the man gets up to avenge his horse (and not get trampled).

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Red Pig
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posted 14 April 2005 21:47 EDT (US) 1 / 18

too bad this forum dosn't have a spelling/grammer check

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Centurion Triarii
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posted 14 April 2005 23:54 EDT (US) 2 / 18

Indeed, in Medieval Total War, before a battle you could tell the following units to dismount.

Feudal Knights (become Feudal Foot Knights)
Chivalric Knights (become Chivalric Foot Knights)
Gothic Knights (become Gothic Foot Knights)
Ghulam Cavalry (become Saracen Infantry)

I think some horsemen should be able to mount/dismount before a battle.

EDIT- The ones here are the units that could mount/dismount in Medieval Total War. I'm not saying they should have these unit I'm only saying that these uunits could dismount in MTW and that there should be some elite cav that should be able to dsimount before a battle in RTW OK?

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[This message has been edited by Triarii (edited 04-15-2005 @ 10:06 AM).]

LUCIUS ARTORIUS
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posted 15 April 2005 09:44 EDT (US) 3 / 18

chivarly and knights(in the contemporary sense) did not come until long long time after rome fell,i think expansion pack deals with that period the dark ages not middle ages.

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Centurion Triarii
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posted 15 April 2005 10:04 EDT (US) 4 / 18

No, I'm saying those are the units that could dismoount in Medieval Total War.

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Elendil
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posted 15 April 2005 10:48 EDT (US) 5 / 18

Yeah that would make it a lot easier for cav civs to besiege.

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LUCIUS ARTORIUS
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posted 15 April 2005 15:44 EDT (US) 6 / 18

oh ok 8-) that used to be my favorite game....till rtw came out wow you remember those graphics im embarrased to say i used to love seeing those pixels pop dust at each others(muskets shotting)what crap it was when compaired to rtw 8-) i played a demo of a "new game" called imperial glory wow played just like medieval total war rtw makes mtw and imperial glory seem like 10 years old.

Antiochus III
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posted 16 April 2005 04:15 EDT (US) 7 / 18

They probably won't add dismounting for cavalry units because it was something that was far more common in the middle ages than in ancient times. In the middle ages, Knights would often dismount to fight on foot...this just didn't happen much in the ancient world.

Ferret
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posted 16 April 2005 05:20 EDT (US) 8 / 18

So if your horse died you'd just have to lie where you were and hope that someone didn't stab you?

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Gaulish Warlord
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posted 17 April 2005 00:02 EDT (US) 9 / 18

Here's how it should work.

Horses and their riders have diffrent HP, if the horse dies before the rider, the rider falls, suffers 5 damage or so (instant death for elephants most likely) and gets back up on foot. If the Rider dies before the horse, then the horse probably "runs amok", can be remounted by a diffrent unit, though it'd have to be a unit that was Orignally on a horse, as foot soldiers wouldn't know how to ride. OR the horse in question could just rout (not the whole unit)

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Ferret
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posted 17 April 2005 04:27 EDT (US) 10 / 18

Me like that Idea!!!

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Chilly5
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posted 17 April 2005 09:14 EDT (US) 11 / 18

yes, yes, but i still think that some cav can dismount . . . if u know how to ride, u know how to run.

boontheloon
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posted 17 April 2005 09:58 EDT (US) 12 / 18

The only units i know of that disounted were british soldiers in general unfortunatly(sp)they never used them in battle though would be nice to see head hurling cav lol

Bouchious
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posted 17 April 2005 11:36 EDT (US) 13 / 18

if your horse died and your part of a group would that not make it crash (or perhaps seen as its an exansion, make it a new group??

Evil_Beagle
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posted 18 April 2005 16:30 EDT (US) 14 / 18

Good idea would love to see catacraft infantry lol

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Antiochus III
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posted 18 April 2005 20:04 EDT (US) 15 / 18

What they should do concerning cavalry in the expansion is give you what remains of a family member's Heavy cavalry guards if that family member is killed in battle...similar to Shogun.

Centurion Triarii
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posted 24 April 2005 19:11 EDT (US) 16 / 18

If a rider survives he becomes a 1 man a.i. unit. How's about that? The unit gorws in size with each new rider who survies a fall from a horse.

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Chilly5
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posted 25 April 2005 17:05 EDT (US) 17 / 18

"Good idea would love to see catacraft infantry lol "

I made some, look in the downloads section for them

Daniks
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posted 28 April 2005 21:10 EDT (US) 18 / 18

Maybe for the expansion pack cavalry units could have a dismount/mount option where a certain percentage of the unit would have to stay with the horses and the rest could move around as infantry until they remount during a battle.

That would be cool to have riderless horses running around the battlefield when the rider gets killed. It would be difficult though to have people without horses running after their cavalry unit so maybe they could get on the back of someone elses horse then that unit would move slower depending on how many people have to double up on horses.

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