Having played on the zombie server as swadian cavalry against nords I noticed how only a handfull had bought warhorses or chargers. Even though we were charging right into nord lines. I myself actually started with a courser and the only real disadvantage was that it was more prone to rear. I had much better success with a warhorse and came to the conclusion that something has to be done so horses have their own distinct roles to fullfill. There has been threads about this before but not recently so I'm refreshing this topic.
One solution to the problem of having the light unarmored horses doing the job that normally would belong to heavy cav might be to have one horse with 'heavy' armor but still cheap. Maybe a hunter that has head and chest armor only that would add armor and negate the headshot bonus. The idea is that saddle horse should be the free crappy one that you would most likely use only to get to some place. Courser would be the lightning fast surprise attack horse but still very vournable and a hunter would be light cav. Warhorses and chargers would then fill the heavy cavalry role and as such should be more tempting choice for the players.
If you have any ideas please post, we need to get this fixed.
One solution to the problem of having the light unarmored horses doing the job that normally would belong to heavy cav might be to have one horse with 'heavy' armor but still cheap. Maybe a hunter that has head and chest armor only that would add armor and negate the headshot bonus. The idea is that saddle horse should be the free crappy one that you would most likely use only to get to some place. Courser would be the lightning fast surprise attack horse but still very vournable and a hunter would be light cav. Warhorses and chargers would then fill the heavy cavalry role and as such should be more tempting choice for the players.
If you have any ideas please post, we need to get this fixed.