sure i can dodge horses. actually i sit on one usually. but you cant dodge all of them, and this could give the player a bit of power over if beeing charged slowly would cost you hp or not
Rarely are there situations where you're surrounded by horses and it isn't mainly your own fault. Sure occasionally, if you go off in a group of 5, the 4 with you can be killed leaving you alone for horses to swoop down like vultures upon you. But it's far more likely that somebody just went off on their own and made themselves easy prey. You'll find if you simply stick to the biggest group, a majority of the time, enough horses will be dead before they get a chance to surround you.
While I don't really mind nerfing bumpslashing, I really don't want to nerf trampling. I'd prefer the situation where if you trample over somebody, you have to hold on tighter to keep on your horse so any attack is interrupted. However, I think we had something like this and then the devs proceeded to remove it so chances are they don't want something like this in the game.
