[suggestion] Loot more horses!

[A_Mustang]

One of the things that really annoyed me back in the original was the lack of horses showing up in my loot box after battles....

I'm talking the greatest horse I ever looted was a stubborn warhorse. And that was once... after conquering Calradia as Swadia, the best horse I got was 1 stubborn warhorse.

The first thing i'd loot in battle would be a horse... (maybe after a quick sword but still...) They're quite valuable.. I mean they're you car, tractor, and tank! essentially all you're needs for transportation and brute force was met by a horse. I'd loot them first, and most everybody else would too. (Even those crazy nords who would just turn them into meat!) A commander of this company, I could demand more horses as loot from my men!

I just want to loot more horses, that's all. 

 

[aka1nas]

Now that horses can degrade, this makes a lot of sense.  It would be nice if you can get standard quality horses at higher looting levels with better fights.

 

[Wheem]

Now that horses can degrade, this makes a lot of sense.

Degrade how? The only difference in horse functionality that I noticed, was the fact that swaybacked horses don't necessarily get lamed when taken out - mine outright died once when that happened. I suppose this means you probably can't "upgrade" a swaybacked horse to a normal one by allowing it to get lamed.

 

[aka1nas]

Now that horses can degrade, this makes a lot of sense.

Degrade how? The only difference in horse functionality that I noticed, was the fact that swaybacked horses don't necessarily get lamed when taken out - mine outright died once when that happened. I suppose this means you probably can't "upgrade" a swaybacked horse to a normal one by allowing it to get lamed.

I mean that normal horses can degrade into the lamed version if wounded.  This is a new feature in Warband, right?  I never noticed it in M&B previously.

I'd actually like it if horses were sometimes perm-killed for the player and companions.  Horses are still basically a one-time purchase for each companion as is. 

 

[OndGud]

Been a long time since I played vanilla m&b but I believe horse degrading into lame has always been around.

 

[Wheem]

Horses have always had a chance to go lame when they get taken out. Previously, the only ones that would outright die in those circumstances were horses that were already lamed - now it can happen to the swaybacked variety (possibly others as well, I'm honestly not sure).

In the original M&B, any lame horse that was "healed" would automatically go to the standard version of that horse breed. This meant that a horse with a heavy, spirited, etc...modifier before getting lamed, wouldn't get it back. However, this also allowed you to get a swaybacked horse lamed in battle, and have it convert to a normal version when healed; I assume this is the main reason that swaybacked horses now have a chance to outright die, rather than get lamed.

 

[aka1nas]

Oh ok, so you can still eventually lose the horse if it drops to lamed and gets wounded again.

How would you go about healing a lamed horse?

 

[HTAPAWASO]

Oh ok, so you can still eventually lose the horse if it drops to lamed and gets wounded again.

How would you go about healing a lamed horse?

In the original M&B, you just put it in your inventory for a while (few days?).

This is good thing since they also increase your party speed when carrying a lot of loot, so they can serve two functions at once (being lame doesn't inhibit their bonus AFAIK).

 

[Wheem]

The Wound Treatment skill heals lamed horses in your inventory (assuming it didn't get changed in Warband - I actually didn't check in beta). Any lamed horse being ridden by the player or a companion will not get healed. I've had some horses get healed almost instantly, and some others take at least a few days.

Buying and healing lamed horses could be pretty cost effective for equipping your heroes as cavalry; especially now that we can't capture enemy horses anymore (which I think is a bug).

 

[ACrazyGerman]

I have done hundreds of battles and I never found one horse in loot.

 

[A_Mustang]

that's because it's bugged...

not cool, taleworlds.... no horse looting is a Major turn off in my book. I really hope you fix it.

(I'm not mad or anything, i'm just sad.  ))

 

[Amroth]

Haha, was just about to suggest this.  Makes total sense, what sane commander would let the riderless horses roam free after a battle?

 

[Charlie Brooker]

Haha, was just about to suggest this.  Makes total sense, what sane commander would let the riderless horses roam free after a battle?

Why a lovely one of course!

And I want to loot some horses now, mainly because I've finally starting using pack horses.

 

[Nameless Warrior]

that's because it's bugged...

not cool, taleworlds.... no horse looting is a Major turn off in my book. I really hope you fix it.

(I'm not mad or anything, i'm just sad.  ))

Same here, not one horse. I like to play that I can only equip my companions with what I loot so this is a bit of  stumbling block. Have taleworlds acknowledged that it is a bug?