cRPG
cRPG => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kharn on June 02, 2011, 10:39:56 pm
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Lets say you are wearing leather/light chainmail armor.
If you have tried more than one horse, at what type of horse do you start dying more often earlier than the horse does?
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Lets say you are wearing leather/light chainmail armor.
If you have tried more than one horse, at what type of horse do you start dying more often earlier than the horse does?
Cataphract.
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more speed means you will die faster due to speed bonus agaisnt, but more speed means you can move faster across the map and dodge people...How good are your dogging skills?
I use a course and dont die fast. I find a sarranid gets shot too easily, its more of a individual play style more than the type of horse
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Ok fine... for whatever playstyle you happen to play; what is the cheapest horse you can ride where you die before the horse does?
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plated charger, and even that sometimes manages to die before me.
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if you're wondering what horse you should get as a HA, go for courser. What you need is speed to escape. However, going for the arabian warhorse may also be an idea, but then you have to dodge the lancers instead of outride them.
If you want to die before your horse you really have to go for one that is atleast armored. So that would be the war horse. However, I'd say speed and manouvrebility are better attributes to stay alive than a much-surviving horse, atleast for a HA.
Also if you wanna avoid being a "taker", you should change the bow with a lance. ;)
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I use desert horse for Ha/HX because it is maneuverable, cheap, and doesn't go o fast so you have a better reticule. On the courser even with 4 HA skill the reticule gets huge at full speed, it stays tight for desert horse, destrier, cataphract.
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Hierloomed Destrier or Cataphact - I just can't make gold fast enough to maintain the Cataphract.
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plated charger, and even that sometimes manages to die before me.
Lol this. The horses in this game are soft and squishy.
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Gash is a magical horse archer, listen to him. Cataprac all tha way
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I use desert horse for Ha/HX because it is maneuverable, cheap, and doesn't go o fast so you have a better reticule. On the courser even with 4 HA skill the reticule gets huge at full speed, it stays tight for desert horse, destrier, cataphract.
Quoted for truth.
I use the steppe horse. Its a bit slow, and sucks if you decide to try and couch a lance with it, but it turns on a dime. About 60% of the time my horse dies before I do. Then again, I'm a pretty reckless cavalry player.
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Ever since i started using arabian horse im addicted so manouverable and being 3x heirloomed it is really fast as well.
I use cataphract if the archerspam is really thick or if there is more than one good HA on other team
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I think this depends more on the behavior of the horse archer than which horse is picked. I always prefer high manueverability over armor/speed. You really just have to be cognizant of enemy ranged and cavalry to keep from taking hits in the first place.
My favorite HA horses in descending order:
Arabian
Desert
Courser
Steppe
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It all depends on map and players in enemy team.
The best thing is to have several horses to choose from.
This is true no matter if you play 1h, polearm or ranged.
The arabian horse can be godlike or total crap depending on the above.
A destrier is always somewhat decent on every map so if you plan to heirloom one you should maybe pick the destrier. It's the best all around horse.
Being a lancer on a "ferrari" myself I often end up running straight into a wall or other obstacle simply because the bad maneuverability of the courser. I really hate it when that happens and wish I had heirloomed an arabian horse instead.
Well... now I'm about to fully heirloom the Arabian too :)
After that I might heirloom the Destrier. So what horse is the best really depends on the situation.
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I like hunting coursers as HA, so using a courser is really useful. If you are into bump-shooting infantry then the destrier or cataphract is the way to go. If you tend to shoot at mid-distances and are more worried about enemy foot-ranged then go with arabian or desert or steppe as its pretty easy to dodge arrows at mid-range when your horse can turn on a dime in a different direction.
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Well I usually survive till the end of the round most of the time using a steppe horse. It's all about evasion, as long as you keep an eye out, no other cav can touch you when you're dodging on a steppe horse. Archers are a bit more of a problem, but keep your distance and learn to dodge the arrows as well. I kinda got sick of always being the last left on my team against 15-20 enemies at which point I just have to let my self be killed, so I retired to take a gen off HA.
Get a steppe horse!
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I focus on cavalry as HA...so I take a courser. Anything less and enemy cav is going to out run you and cut you to pieces.
It really depends what your focus is. If you're taking on infantry, I'd say either Arabian or Destrier. If you're taking on cav, then definitely the courser (unless you have a Champion Arabian :P )
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I focus on cavalry as HA...so I take a courser. Anything less and enemy cav is going to out run you and cut you to pieces.
It really depends what your focus is. If you're taking on infantry, I'd say either Arabian or Destrier. If you're taking on cav, then definitely the courser (unless you have a Champion Arabian :P )
Anything less than a courser gets you cut to pieces? Maybe it's people being bad like always, but I can keep a handful of cav at bay totally by myself on a steppe horse. If you have any clue as to what you're doing you don't get hit unless you get cocky and go for jousting (ie playing chicken) head shots, but it's worth it anyway. Destrier will get you killed faster than anything too by the way. My advice always seems to fall on deaf ears as I never see any other HA really be effective anymore.