Dismounting knights

[Dazzy]

1, Does any one know how you go about dismounting knights?

2, Does this have to be done before the battle starts or can it be done during a battle?

[Colovion]

It's during the deployment stage and you right click and select Dismount

[Ecthelion]

Some knights can only be dismounted during a siege situation, others can be dismounted in any battle, check froggy's excellent unit guide (https://forums.totalwar.org/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=34;t=17054) for details on each one

[Dazzy]

Ok, i've done what you have put down about right clicking before starting the battle when your in the deployment mode and I can not see any signs for dismounting?
Now is that because I'm using the expansion pack or me be a little bit thick?
If there is a little bit more info about then I would be grateful.

[HicRic]

Right click on certain mounted units when the battle has begun, but not started (i.e. you haven't clicked the begin battle button but you do have the army in front of you all deployed and stuff). On some units in every battle, when you right-click on the unit you will see mount/dismount. Only some units can do this. (For example, Chivalric Knights)

Every mounted unit can dismount during a seige battle. (one where you can see a castle in-battle)

It doesn't matter which version of the game you're using.

[katank]

there will be a list of commands on the unit like withdraw etc. and one will be dismount/remount which would be grayed out if the unit is not dismountable at this time.

[Despot of the English]

In my view a player should be allowed to dismount any knightly unit during the deployment phase, siege or no. I can just imagine it at the battle of Crecy; King Edward III commands his knights to dismount and they shout: No This ain't a siege

[Ecthelion]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that some knights would only go on campaign if they were assured of not having to get off their horse, could be wrong though I'm no historian https://forums.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Tomassi_Rossino]

Does the dismounting of mounted troops become an available option only when you have a battle on Campaign or can it happen on the other modes too?

[Dazzy]

Thank you to all for your help todate

After going though the whole game you can only dismount knights in the campaign mode and NOT in any of the other modes in the game. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

At the very start of the battle you can only get the Mount/Dismount command by right clicking on the mouse onto the knights themselves and not any other troops before you press the Start battle icon. After you press the start battle icon the Mount/Dismount command will not appear again unless you restart the battle again.

Mount/Dismount is the only command that will appear by right clicking the knights and not any other commands until you start the battle itself, this will only works with some knights and not with others. (Please see about for the answer)

[Copperhead]

In custom battle you don't need to dismount knights, you can select them as foot knights when you are choosing your army.

[Tomassi_Rossino]

Oh yeah. Thanks for the help

[katank]

some other commands are they but most are greyed out.

[Corax]

historically, dismounted knights were not too common during battles - interesting to read about the Battle of Sempach in Switzerland, were dismounted knights faced the peasant and woodsmen rebels, the 2 sides took no prisoners, no knights survived and few rebels.

[katank]

that's interesting. actually, dismounted knights are disadvantaged in many instances of losing their mobility as well as the shock of the lances.

the use of a horse as an elevated combat platform also gave advantage when fighting most foot soldiers (spear, pikes, and polearms excluded).