This is what happens when you have a nub with good ping, vicious amounts of lancing. I just find it deeply unsatisfying, peeling him off his horse with a lucky/well timed axe blow however... theres little better in the video gme world.
Indeed, I did it several times yesterday, particulry satisfying if they have Khergit Guard Armor. Wack them off their horse, then kill em! Then watch em whine about the overpowered Club with Spike!
first of all, any fan of planescape is obviously awesome, secondly- Nien! tis our custom rapist crossbow. hands off.
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right: more troop idea brainstorming crap:
we need more awesome weapon ideas rather than bog standard gear, what about our spears? seeing as they will be our primary weapon, they will need to be quite awesome. how about a war spear that extends for fighting cav XD (joke... although...)
I say our spearmen should get superlight armour, but kick ass combat spears (speed over all else i say), the only problem i can see is that I'm sure the enemy will be using VERY long lances on horseback- our spearmen could do with some dehorsing tool (yes i know they ARE spearmen, but war spears will not be able to compete with uber lances)
Xbows can get away with heavier armour and since their xbows are melee too they could carry lots of bolts. --- UBER idea- how about having the xbow as a 1/2 hander weapon! you can hold it as a handxbow with a shield, at expense of accuracy and load time! that will make our xbowmen amazingly versatile, when under fire they give up a bit of firepower for defence.
I duno about cav, not my department : could go with basic lancers, but I cant use horses so i cant really say much about them. we could make them a sort of defensive cavalry- designed to protect our Xbows from other cav, and harass infantry so the xbows can get a good shot. for this i guess they would need heavy armour on both them and their horse, a big strong shield- but at the expense of speed and weaponry.
Arch3r- I'm still not on the members list! I demand an explanashun!
EDIT:
Disgruntled Peasant here- ready for duty:
oh, and look out- the enemy appear to have developed a new unarmed combat technique:
hey, id be more than happy to have 2 infantry units, I'm just assuming were gonna have an infantry/ranged/cav setup- duno, just brainstorming some troop ideas. (perhaps one anti-cav infantry and one anti-infantry infantry to take the place of cav?)
anywho- Arch3r nice design, I'm sure that bayonet will save a few xbowmens lives (possibly make the higher tier ones have a more bladed design, so they can swing it as well as stab)
Must be a sucky great lance user then, if he starts up the thrust soon enough there is no way a melee javelin can outreach it even when hitting the horse.