Go ahead and nerf coursers, I couldn't care less. You make coursers sound like rocket ships that can hunt down other cav and are amazingly supreme. You dont lance so yo don't understand how most cav v cav kills are made. In almost all my experince its usually happens in a head on or you get t-boned by a lancer. Both of these situations are easily avoidable if you know how to manuever your horse. Honestly Lemmy, what kind of damage can a lancer do if he is directly behind you poking you in the back with a lance. Which is very Hard (if you keep turning)because the speed bonus is gone because your both riding the same way. If anything when he's behind you like that you can do more damage with a backhanded slash. This whole I'm going so fast that archers can't see me bullshit is getting old. Half of being a cav is knowing where to be when to pick ppl off. And if you think you move to slow still do what Habb did with his champ cata and go 9 riding and outmaneuver everybody else. Ultimately the stats only help so much when other cav also have higher points in riding than you as well.
Before i went 1h cav and made my main cav, i had an alt lancer cav that i played alot, almost as much if not more than my main. Ya you can make cav kills charging head on and hitting someone in the head, but that is a very stupid and dangerous thing to do. Charging someone head on your about as likely to be killed as they are, its not fighting intelligently. And if you hit the horses head and it doesn't die your dead because your guna to get nailed in the chest by a lance with ur sheild being down.
And good players will aim for the "sweet spot" which is an area in the front center of the horse that if hit will damage both the horse and rider, (maybe even if the rider has their shield up don't remember) so when going up against them you will always get hit hard and probably killed if your lance head shot doesn't kill the horse.The smart way to fight as lancer cav is to get up behind them and stab the horse in the ass. It wont do as much damage as a head shot but you still do alot and its plenty enough to quickly kill a horse, and doing it this way keeps you 100% safe, this is intelligent fighting. And hitting a horse in the rear is easier than hitting it in the head, given that its rear is alot large than its head and the rider cant see its rear (or you) unless hes changing his angle view (which is also dangerous cause u can get nailed from the front).
With the archers its about them having a *fair* amount of time to recognize that a horse is coming and react, half a second is not enough time. Its really not hard to stab an archer in the back whose not paying attention to you, its not much of a skill everyone knows that. As far as riding points, the vast majority of cav do not have more than 6 riding points (the amount needed for courser), and habb having 9, well i dont know what its doing to help him he uses 100k worth of gear and yet he is pretty mediocre.
And overdriven, obviously the courser has the same or better manuverability as any other horse other than arabian (so by your logic their acceleration and ability to hit top speed is as good or better than nay other horse than arabian), being above average in a category like manuverability is not a weakness.
