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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Sep 2012 at 16:39
Originally posted by Salararius Salararius wrote:

Originally posted by scaramouche scaramouche wrote:

can human T1 chariots now use horses?
I'm not sure about the phrasing of the question.  Cav have always used horses.  This thread is specifically talking about the future ability to equip the new crafted items.

With regard to that topic, human T1 chariots are cav and cav can equip (or will be able to when the equipping gets implemented) any of the cav horses:
  • Heavy Warhorse
  • Nimble Warhorse
  • Steady Warhorse
And since they are human cav they can also equip:
  • Battlebred
after the player has researched 20 crafting items and "discovered" this horse.

 
Actually the thread is a query on the % stats on the new horses and as my question was new horse related it seemed the right place to ask..but hey, lets not split hairs.
I thought maybe a quick answer here would save clogging the forum up with another thread.
the reason i asked my question is because charioteers use...as far as i knew..chariots, noted for their speed and carry capacity, if i can now equip them with the new horses what happens to the carry capacity?
war wolves state a 20% carry capacity yet no horses do.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Sep 2012 at 18:15
Originally posted by scaramouche scaramouche wrote:

Actually the thread is a query on the % stats on the new horses and as my question was new horse related it seemed the right place to ask..but hey, lets not split hairs.
I thought maybe a quick answer here would save clogging the forum up with another thread.
the reason i asked my question is because charioteers use...as far as i knew..chariots, noted for their speed and carry capacity, if i can now equip them with the new horses what happens to the carry capacity?
war wolves state a 20% carry capacity yet no horses do.

I don't think this was the wrong place to ask, you phrased the question in the present tense and the crafted horses can not be used yet.  All the % stats are tied to crafted items and have no current use.  But, to build a chariot you still need a horse so chariots have always "used horses" (just like all T1 and T2 cav "use horses", even orc "wolfriders" which you would think would use wolves).

Actually, an Illyriad chariot uses a horse (not two), saddle (huh?), beer and no wood.  I'm not sure it makes sense from a logical or realistic perspective.  Real chariots (from Earth history) may carry a lot (I'm not sure about that premise) but from a military perspective I don't think they are all that fast.  It's hard to get a wheeled cart moving as quickly as a man on horseback over uneven ground.

I actually made a request a long time ago to rename the "Chariot" something that made sense (light cav, dragoon, whatever).  Chariots don't seem to fit with the flow of the game.  It's funny, they put a great deal of thought into details like continent names but then they have two military types as contemporary units (knights and chariots) whose militarily use on Earth peaked ~2,000 years apart.  I'm not even aware of a fantasy setting that places them as contemporaries (but I haven't read everything so maybe someone will speak up and school me).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Sep 2012 at 20:40
Originally posted by Salararius Salararius wrote:

[QUOTE=Chariots don't seem to fit with the flow of the game.  
 
no..they dont, the ability to now equip t1 commanders with horses destroys their title as charioteers
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