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?

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?

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

[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 & Signifier1 animations removed the jumping animations for this reason.

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

[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 & 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.