Funnily enough I was going to make a Friesian mesh too, for a hunter replacement - sort of a light warhorse. It's historically inaccurate to have a Friesian as a warhorse but I just don't care
As well as that I'm making an Arabian type for the "courser", a Throroughbred type for the "saddle horse", a primative native pony type (see Przewalski's horse, Norwegian Fjord horse - but built a bit lighter than those breeds, perhaps a bit of Sumba pony influence thrown in there) for the "steppe horse", a small draft type for the "sumpter" (perhaps something close to, but smaller than, the Percheron horse, whose ancestors were the original medieval european farm horses - or some type of chunky pony), and for the actual big warhorse (warhorse and charger using the same base mesh) I'm definately ising the Ardennais as reference (a french breed who is a direct descendant, a base progenitor type, of the Great Horses of knights of the Middle Ages)
There will be armoured and unarmoured versions of most of these --
Sumpter -- sorry buddy, no one wants to armour their pack horse =P
Saddle - same again, this fellow is just a merchants mount or a riding horse
Steppe - either unarmoured or with leather and cloth chest plate and hindquarter guard - very light armour
Courser - unarmoured or with leather chest and hindquarter guards/light leather barding - light/medium armour
hunter - unarmoured/leather barding/mail and leather barding - meduim/heavy armour
Warhorse - unarmoured/mail barding/metal plate and mail barding - heavy/very heavy armour
Give me feedback on what you all think of this.
I also want to make a set of modern horses, which will have a more contempory leather saddle and bridle, which I'm sure you'll all love for more modern day/wild west etc expansions.
And finally, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to go on a short rant here, just to educate you all.
It is a MYTH that Shires were ever used as warhorses, by the way, as they are simply far too new a breed - having only been developed in the 19th century.
Nor were Friesians ever used as medieval mounts for knights - they were, and still remain, Royal Horses of Europe along with the Andalusian, Lustiano and Lipizzaner horses, who form this groups as old Haute Ecole breeds, being breeds that excel in and were BRED for High School Dressage. Though it is likely that they did descend from warhorses of the middle ages and have their blood in there somewhere's - but most modern European breeds do.
Same again with Percherons... though they are a fittingly old breed, they have come up through the ages as a FARM HORSE
Unsuitable to be ridden by a fully armoured knight, they have only ever been used, since the dawn of the breed, as either farm horses or cart horses, or (more recently) as a heavy riding horse.
And this remains true for the Clydesdale - never ever a warhorse, too tall, too hollow beneath the legs. Only ever a draught/farm/carriage horse.
So don't anyone say that these breeds were warhorses. They were not.
End rant.
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