I feel like horsemen should stay away from melee.
If you ride your horse in a group of fighting friendly and bump them because YOU want that kill so hard. Then its imo griefing.
Its like drive a car with 200 km/h in streets full of people and say I dont want kill them I just want drive fast.
Of course you can hit M but the problem is not always about team kill, stun and knockdown by a bump of friendly let enemies kill you.
The team mates often just ride direct into your direction and you think its maybe enemy so you are forced to look around every time you hear a horse if you dont check this the enemies will kill you.
Why not let infantry protect themselves?
When friendly horseman would fear to get dismounted after he bumped a friendly he would make sure to stay away.
If you kill a friendly horse at spawn you should get punished.
If you kill a friendly horse in the field then nothing should happen, at least no punish from admins.
What do you think?
Right in middle age warfare I can't see why the cavalry would ever engage enemy infantry, especially if they are already distracted fighting my friendly infantry.
How fucking dumb are people...
It's not "griefing" or kill stealing. it's called tactics and teamwork. Welcome to c-rpg, simulated medieval combat. Enjoy your stay.
*EDIT* Just to clarify from a lance cavalry point of view, I'm pretty damn good at bumping an enemy who is engaged with my friendly infantry, and then our infantry has an easy kill. Even the best cavalryman who have the best control over their horse will still bump a friendly from time to time, it happens. You can't always control what direction someone moves in, and you don't always have time to react. It's just like getting team hit or shot by a friendly archer, it's going to happen, if you notice someone is terrible at cavalry or terrible at shooting arrows, say something, but don't blame every single person that plays cavalry or is an archer.
*EDIT #2*
And just a historical reference, lots of times when a horse was hit by an arrow it would ride around uncontrollably and sometimes run through friendly lines of infantry without the rider being able to control it. Shit happens in warfare, but if someone is just terrible at riding their horse, call them out on it, don't blame every single horseman.