Where are the leaping horsies?

[Apgad]

I seem to recall an animation in Vanilla where a cavalry charge would break down into melee, and then occassionally a horse would leap over the first few ranks and carry on the fight. Has this been removed in EB? :inquisitive:

If so, would that be to make space for other animations (ie 2 handed spear thrusts), or because the tactic of jumping your horse into the middle of a group of men with sharp objects, thus exposing the vulnerable underside, wasn't ever too successful? :skull:

Of course there are lots of other things in Vanilla that EB lacks, but they've been covered many times before, and will be many times again I suspect :yes:

[Tellos Athenaios]

I can be wrong, and probably am; but I would say it's more a matter of Vanilla's settings regarding unit mass for cavalry v. infantry... While more or less correct in the sense that they *did* maintain a roughly accurate ratio IIRC; the engine would do some pretty crazy stuff like displacing entire units at once, or throwing people high in the air ...

[hoom]

No it was definitely an animation in the default game.
It basically made Macedonian phalanxes useless against a frontal heavy cavalry charge because about 2/3rds of the front row of cavalry would graciously leap over the pike heads & land in the middle of the unit with obviously disastrous results to the phalanx.

Both the EB animations (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=60430) & Signifier1 animations removed the jumping animations for this reason.

Any word from Alin since he left BTW? He really did a great job :yes:

[Korlon]

No it was definitely an animation in the default game.

Yep, if you look at the vanilla intro, you can see it in action in the, I'm guessing, Carrhae fight.

[Apgad]

Both the EB animations (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=60430) & Signifier1 animations removed the jumping animations.

Ahh, that also explains why charging infantry don't do the leaping sword attack either...

[Megas Methuselah]

Man, those were so "cartoony." Sometimes when I'd see those animations, I felt that I would rather watch the Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show than continue playing vanilla RTW.