I very much like the items, factions, and ideas behind this mod. I've been a fan for a while now.
That being said, some of the features in the combat are just unnecessarily frustrating. Here are just a few that have stood out to me:
- Added polearm damage vs horses - this make sense SOMETIMES, but 90% of the time it does not make sense in the game's actual combat. A soldier will poke my horse from right next to me (the kind of attack that would get -33% speed bonus) and it will do 60 damage simply because it's a polearm. Even more annoying was, toward the beginning of the game, when someone with a pitchfork SWUNG the pitchfork at my horse and did 60 damage, again simply because it is a polearm. I have since disabled this feature, which is a positive option, but it was just the beginning of my frustration.
- Shield bash - maybe 1/3 of the time that I'm trying to block, then attack, I'll accidentally shield bash
- STUMBLE AND FALL - nothing in the universe could be more frustrating. There are times that I'm not even fighting yet, just getting into position, and my guy will just STUMBLE AND FALL STUMBLE AND FALL STUMBLE AND FALL. Nobody in the world is this clumsy. It happens SO OFTEN.
This is, of course, still a great mod and I appreciate all the work that you have done for it. Just some of the added combat mechanics have annoyed me a lot.