Re: (TFT) Horse Speeds

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 12:46 -0400 8/20/08, Sgt. Hulka wrote:
> This is in response to mtapley's weight effects on a mount's speed post, which
> in the archives is titled "Re: TFT Digest V3 #1045",

Oops! I read archive, hit "reply", and sometimes forget to edit the 
subject. Sorry!

>  and includes an awesome and very handy chart.

Glad you liked it, and even gladder it was more or less correctly 
done - I was worried about that, given how much more than I you've 
studied and gamed cavalry.

> ... I'd offer up these as tweaks to their full kits:

For your setting, I think I agree completely with your suggestions.

The Cavalry I was presenting were for use in a pretty magic-rich 
setting, and there were a couple of factors that pushed me towards 
what I showed:

a) I didn't much care about speed since each horse was going to get a 
double-size, self-powered "Speed Movement" item as part of its 
harness. That makes even an MA 12 horse plenty fast against ordinary 
opponents.

b) I *really* wanted at least cloth barding (or better), since the 
barding will be enchanted to at least W/A Enchantment 3.

> In TFT, if you're using a one-handed weapon and not carrying
> a small shield, you're kind of sub-optimal.

Yup. I wanted the free hand to throw stuff for the light cavalry, and 
was out of mass for the heavy. But I planned to make up for it with 
enchanted armor.

> ...for simplicity's sake, when building figures for one-off miniatures
> skirmish battles, as opposed to full-on role-playing campaigns, I'd just say
> treat a Warhorse as 16 MA unless its rider is wearing plate, or the horse has
> leather barding, in which case it drops to 14 MA. Light horses are trickier,
> since it's much more difficult to get a cavalryman's kit under 100 kg.

Good approximations, and I had missed the significance of the 16 MA. Thanks!

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