horse melee combat

[Danny D]

Yeah the animation for swinging a 1h on horseback is garbage. I still have trouble hitting even a looter without him hitting me first for -10 damage, haha! It is honestly ridiculous how close you have to be. The looter being able to hit me with his short cleaver as I’m trying to hit him is a prime example of the trash animation.

 

[Pejot]

Yeah the animation for swinging a 1h on horseback is garbage. I still have trouble hitting even a looter without him hitting me first for -10 damage, haha! It is honestly ridiculous how close you have to be. The looter being able to hit me with his short cleaver as I’m trying to hit him is a prime example of the trash animation.

On the other hand when you use polearms and get used to them they cannot get close enough to land a hit while you are piercing them. Unfortunately works both ways. One looter took me down with pitchfork while I was charging straight at him.

 

[ssssnake]

After playing for a while, it seems to me that one of the biggest problems with mounted combat is the mouse control over your direction of striking.

If you are attacking an infantry target, you have to have to move your mouse so that you are pretty much looking straight down at the ground. If you don't do this, your strike will pass over the target's head. If you are using a couched lance, you have to use the mouse to pan right, just before the moment of impact.

The weapon lengths seem to be practically shorter now too.

I've got a 2 handed cleaver with a length of 117, and it's still a bit of a challenge, even with thousands of hours of Warband.