So why was the lance of compensation taken out?

[Lady_Cicilia_Rosewood]

Did the long pike of 300 even exist back then? It wasen't a rediculous weapon, but a proper one for it's role

[Seawied]

Did the long pike of 300 even exist back then? It wasen't a rediculous weapon, but a proper one for it's role

Cav is doing more than ok this patch with all cav's competition badly nerfed. We do not need the retarded LoC back in our arsenal

[Lady_Cicilia_Rosewood]

I would say the LoC is a better anti cavalry weapon then infantry

[Ryke]

Is it possible to compare the ingame length of the heavy lance vs the great lance.  I ask because ingame the great lance doesnt look like it is much larger than the heavy lance in terms of overall length.

[Dezilagel]

With only having a bastard child of the great lance, which isn't great by any measure except for it's epic fail, why don't we have the Lance of Compensation back? Especially with the slotting system and unsheathing additions and couch only additionals. Where's the dedicated weapon for the cavalry charge?
We even have a pike with a whopping 300 length in the game.
Where is it? Tell me.

No.

'The phuck are you anyway? O.o

[Casimir]

'The phuck are you anyway? O.o

fucking newbs show some respect.


M'lady i must say the LoC is a very silly weapon. You really are better off taking a heavy lance.

[Thomek]

fucking newbs show some respect.

+1

Who the fuck are you anyway Dezilagel? never heard of you. (FYI Rosewood created and led the first major guild in cRPG, I reckon the lady just had a break and came back. Go and be ashamed of your ignorance.)

About the lance, it was a very spesific weapon, made to enable the possibilty of having devastating cavalry charges in strategus with packed, trained and ammased cavalry. I don't remember if it was abused, probably was, but not to a large extent. For general use it was too clumsy afaik. Anyway, I'm very much for such a weapon, with only 1 counter and that's the pike. Perhaps it should be hard to aim, and nigh-on impossible to use unless on cavalry friendly plain.

[Lady_Cicilia_Rosewood]

fucking newbs show some respect.


M'lady i must say the LoC is a very silly weapon. You really are better off taking a heavy lance.

Silly? I beg you pardon. Not for the charge, the Lance of Greatness is the prefered choice for a hit into the enemy formation en masse!

[Tears of Destiny]

+1

Who the fuck are you anyway Dezilagel? never heard of you

He is 11 days old on the forums, hence why.

[Seawied]

'The phuck are you anyway? O.o

doesn't matter who she/he is; comments like this aren't needed

[Digglez]

it is pretty silly that non armored cav is useless against archers as cav was the historical and traditional counter to them

horses should get a sprint function made for short dash attacks against targets instead of running at full speed all the time

[zagibu]

That's actually quite a good idea. Giving them the spurs should increase their speed and decrease their manoeuverability for a short while...

[Dezilagel]

I apoligize for my post, I was in a state of grumpiness at that time and the original intention of the post was not to be flaming you, merely to show disagreement.  I'm sorry (both for the flaming and lack of arguments), not that you care probably 

+1

Who the fuck are you anyway Dezilagel? never heard of you. (FYI Rosewood created and led the first major guild in cRPG, I reckon the lady just had a break and came back. Go and be ashamed of your ignorance.)

I will
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On topic:

With the current state of cavalry (very maneuvearble, lacking predators), adding the LoC would probably result in mass abuse (just look at the heavy lance now), aleast on the normal servers. For strategus it would possibly make more sense (and look very cool I reckon), but it just doesn't feel needed (as cav has both heavy and great lance).

That's actually quite a good idea. Giving them the spurs should increase their speed and decrease their manoeuverability for a short while...

Agreed, would make cav feel more like riding a horse and not a go-kart :p

(For more cav-related discussion, check out http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,4970.0.html this topic. Would be really cool to get further debate going)