Couched Lance What?-Breaking Blocks Whilst Mounted

[SwadianGrunt]

隐藏: Before I start

No this is not about the overpower of the couched lance.

There I was, fighting the Rhodokian Scum with my many Swadian Knights. I rode into battle on my courser with my lance outwards ready to pulverise the Rhodokian scum. CHAAARGE I yelled to my men. I moved forward to attack a soldier with my lance.
AND THEN IT HIT ME. (or him either way)
My Lance was stopped whilst full charge on a courser by a farmer's pitchfork.

Ok what was the point of that? I'll tell you. I'm darn sick of these bloody arseholes blocking my full blown lance charges with a puny little piece of wood. Seriously the force behind a charging horse would be enough to push you backwards and even break your weapon.

Discuss.

 

[Winterwolf00]

It's natural for a horse to rear in pain after getting stabbed with a pointy object. Now if it were an armored charger then the horse should run right over him.

 

[SwadianGrunt]

It's natural for a horse to rear in pain after getting stabbed with a pointy object. Now if it were an armored charger then the horse should run right over him.

What no I was attacking him and he blocked? did you even understand my idea? I want to be able to break through a block whilst using a couched lance or any lance on horse at a certain speed.

 

[Winterwolf00]

Sorry. I am currently suffering from severe sleep deprivation. After this post I'm going to bed.
Yes I get tired of that to but I don't know of a realistic way to fix it.

 

[Askorti]

I'm pretty much sure that its impossible to stab someone at full speed from horseback. You'd break your arm or fall from your horse.
That's why Knight were couching their lance while charging instead of thrusting with them.
I think that thrusting should be possible only to the point. If you'll be riding too fast then you could only couch your lance.
That'd be somehow realistic.

Edit: If I couldn't block thrust from horseback then it'd be overpowered in MP.

 

[livingdeath62]

+10000000000000000000000
aaaaaaaaaaaaaand....
RHODOKAI

 

[Askorti]

Yep, Rhodok-hai is the best name for that kingdom

 

[Winterwolf00]

If a couched lance can destroy my shield with one hit then it should go right through my weapon.

 

[FrisianDude]

Since when are couched lances blockable without a shield?

I'm pretty much sure that its impossible to stab someone at full speed from horseback. You'd break your arm or fall from your horse.
That's why Knight were couching their lance while charging instead of thrusting with them.

Bull****. Thrusting with a lance was very much possible from horseback. Before the advent of stirrups you could stand in, the spear or lance was the most important weapon in the arsenal of any horseman. After that advent it became the sword. I wonder how those horsemen who fought with lances managed to hurt the enemy? Glare viciously? NO. They ****ing STABBED THEM.  Try to keep your ahmagad-cav-is-OP bias out of here, thanks. It's pissing me off, that bull**** of yours.

 

[livingdeath62]

People had thigh skills, they'd cling on to their hoarse

 

[SwadianGrunt]

People had thigh skills, they'd cling on to their hoarse

Horse**

 

[livingdeath62]

Hoarse***

 

[SwadianGrunt]

Hoarse***

Horse****
Hoarse is like i have a hoarse throat. You don't cling to a hoarse. You cling to a horse. Lrn2english.

 

[livingdeath62]

I can cling to my horse's hoarse throat.

 

[SwadianGrunt]

I can cling to my horse's hoarse throat.

Touche.

 

[FrisianDude]

Touché.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I think it wouldn't be difficult to generate the force to deflect a lance. Might be hard to get the timing right though.

 

[Stuboi0]

You cant deflect a lance, naturally, we dont have the strength, wittiness or skill to deflect a long sharp object moving towards you from a horse at about 30 - 40mph...  lets face it, if the lance can break a shield with one hit, whats the object, eg: sword, spear, meant to do when it tries to deflect it...? IT WILL BREAK and go straight through you, and probably your team-mates have to clear up the mess... (Ok that last bit was a bit too detailed)

Ok, with the whole thrusting a lance from horseback. YOUR not meant to trust! A lance does exactly what its meant to do, its meant to "LANCE" people off horses etc. (Lance is in the dictionary, its a verb. To lance something is to go "Straight through")
Plus it would have been so heavy and big, lots of air resistance so it would have been EXTREAMLY hard to thrust unlike the spear, which was light, was designed to Thrust.

Since when are couched lances blockable without a shield?

I'm pretty much sure that its impossible to stab someone at full speed from horseback. You'd break your arm or fall from your horse.
That's why Knight were couching their lance while charging instead of thrusting with them.

Bull****. Thrusting with a lance was very much possible from horseback. Before the advent of stirrups you could stand in, the spear or lance was the most important weapon in the arsenal of any horseman. After that advent it became the sword. I wonder how those horsemen who fought with lances managed to hurt the enemy? Glare viciously? NO. They ******** STABBED THEM.  Try to keep your ahmagad-cav-is-OP bias out of here, thanks. It's pissing me off, that bull**** of yours.

So I say this to, MIND your language and think of the facts before you start getting pissed off about this comment. This is a forum, it is where things are to be discussed. Not where people have a fight. I say if you have nothing nice to say, dont say anything at all!

Thank you

 

[FrisianDude]

I say, I don't give a **** what you say. And I *did* mind the facts very much. And, well, seems you did not. You seem under the impression, for example, that deflecting something involves holding your weapon still until they bump into eachother. That is obviously not true, and with the right moves you should be able to deflect a lance even with a sword. Seeing as you use the sword to shove it off-course by moving it in from an angle. You don't wait until the other dude's weapon hits yours.

 

[Stuboi0]

Ok, you charge into a horse travelling at 40mph with someone holding a 9 ft lance with a point at the end, ontop of the speed, you include weight behind the lance... What will happen, in reality... to the sword. It will break. Trust me, its simple physics.