wild horses

[slavetrader]

i did a search about this and didn't find anything. but if there is then sorry, but here goes..

wouldn't it be cool to find wild horses during a battle. you could try to mount them (would probably take a high riding skill and a death wish) or kill them for meat (btw. make it so that killed horses would show up in loot as horsemeat?) maybe the wild horse could be a new horsetype... or just use the steppe horses for this role.

after battle they would appear in the lootscreen maybe?

 

[Ilex]

I don't know if it's me but finding wild animals (especially) horses seems strange to me. It would seem logical to me that they would have fled the area as soon as they heard the masses of humans coming.

But for hunting animals on non-battlefields I have nothing against.

 

[powerg8]

i did a search about this and didn't find anything. but if there is then sorry, but here goes..

wouldn't it be cool to find wild horses during a battle. you could try to mount them (would probably take a high riding skill and a death wish) or kill them for meat (btw. make it so that killed horses would show up in loot as horsemeat?) maybe the wild horse could be a new horsetype... or just use the steppe horses for this role.

after battle they would appear in the lootscreen maybe?

you eat horses

 

[slavetrader]

well the least i'd like to see is when a horse dies during a battle you could get a piece of horsemeat in the lootscreen.

 

[Sir Saladin]

Jumping up on a wild horse's back would make the horse a little upset. Then you would have to make up a whole bronco busting mini-game.

 

[Berny]

id only like it if there was hunting in the game...

you could go horse hunting...like sir saladin said sorta a minigame youd have to catch up to the horse and mount it... then maybe have to stay on the horse a certain time (depends on quality of the horse) if you didnt get thrown off the horse you would be able to keep it...

like i said tho only if hunting was added in the game...

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

I think implementing a better system of taking over your dead enemy's horse would be better than catching wild horses. If just isn't realistic.

 

[TheSlightFeelingOfRegret]

A better system? What's wrong with the current one?-

Kill owner
Sit on horse

Simple, but effective. I suppose a "Pull Person Off Horse" action would be useful. Perhaps a strength check against your opponents strength, only at low speeds. But I still don't think it's really required.

I think hunting would be good in the game, but I don't think horse hunting is the type I would envision. Hunting deer and boar for meat and fur would be prefurable for me. They could wander as neutral parties (2 or 3 of them perhaps), trackable, of course. Then when you reach the animals you and perhaps a couple of others go and hunt them on a battlefield. Obviously, they wont charge at you like river bandits (though I have heard that boar can be dangerous) but run away if they see you. A stealth system would of course improve this rather than the enemy-RADAR that everyone but your character seems to have.

 

[JohnathanStrange]

It would be cool to have different ways of getting new horses, whether it be through combat or trade. I wouldn't say no to a little friendly horse-trading with the Khergits; it beats always killing everyone in every warparty that crosses my path.

 

[TheSlightFeelingOfRegret]

it beats always killing everyone in every warparty that crosses my path.

Really, there's something more fun than that? Well, I would have lost a bet.

I notice that when you receive a Supply Horses mission you are told to steal them from farms, if necessary. I think that this should probably be built into the game.