Horse Races

[Red Harvest]

I went off to the races with horses, then came back and checked the descr_model_battle.txt file to confirm.

There are two speeds of horses in RTW: fast and normal.

Fast uses fs_fast_horse skeleton and is on "light horse" and "medium horse"

Normal uses fs_horse skeleton for "heavy horse" and "horse cataphract" and generals horse"

I don't have a copy of the file before 1.2 but I suspect that medium was using the fs_horse skeleton before.

It seems wrong that cataphracts are this fast... Seems like speed should be light, medium, heavy/cataphract.

[Proletariat]

I went off to the races with horses, then came back and checked the descr_model_battle.txt file to confirm.

There are two speeds of horses in RTW: fast and normal.

Fast uses fs_fast_horse skeleton and is on "light horse" and "medium horse"

Normal uses fs_horse skeleton for "heavy horse" and "horse cataphract" and generals horse"

I don't have a copy of the file before 1.2 but I suspect that medium was using the fs_horse skeleton before.

It seems wrong that cataphracts are this fast... Seems like speed should be light, medium, heavy/cataphract.

I knew Greek cav shouldn't be catching my Numidian light cav.

So does this mean Equites are as fast as HAs?

[Red Harvest]

I knew Greek cav shouldn't be catching my Numidian light cav.

So does this mean Equites are as fast as HAs?

Yep, even if you switch them back to medium horse.

[hrvojej]

And if I give horse_medium the fs_horse skeleton? Will that change only their speed, or will it have some other side-effects?

[Red Harvest]

And if I give horse_medium the fs_horse skeleton? Will that change only their speed, or will it have some other side-effects?

Don't know, I haven't tried it yet.

If anyone has a copy of the 1.0 or 1.1 version of the file, could you check to see what skeleton the medium_horse uses?

[hrvojej]

I have changed the medium horse to fs_horse skeleton, and so far no ill effects. Btw, I also changed barbarian chariots to medium horses, otherwise all Briton chariots were fast moving - something I don't quite agree with. Even though it would be ok in a way to have light chariots as fast, I still don't think they should be as fast as the horse archers. I guess it's possible to create new chariot mounts that would cover different versions of Briton and Egyptian chariots (melee and missile), but I prefer to have it this way.