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[forsaken1111]

Like.. these aren't even good. When you get to this point you're supposed to stop, not continue making terrible awful attempts at puns.

[Rose]

Also seriously once you need to highlight your pun, you may as well banish it to oblivion cus it's not worth saving.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I don't see what all the fuss about horse combat was, it works fine for me.
Yeah, if you're firing a bow then you need to do slightly more work to keep your horse moving, but I think that's to be expected when you suddenly shift from using the reins to control it to using your knees.

[Shadowlord]

I never experienced the horse combat. Shadowmere mysteriously disappeared a few days before the patch hit, and I just got the last achievement a couple days ago, wrapping things up for my Argonian dovakiin. (At least for xboxness. If I get a usb stick that works with it, I may transfer the save so I can play it on the PC from time to time)

[Neyvn]

I don't see what all the fuss about horse combat was, it works fine for me.
Yeah, if you're firing a bow then you need to do slightly more work to keep your horse moving, but I think that's to be expected when you suddenly shift from using the reins to control it to using your knees.

Oh poppycock... Thats realism gameplay talking there MoM. Hush you...

[Catastrophic lolcats]

I don't see what all the fuss about horse combat was, it works fine for me.
Yeah, if you're firing a bow then you need to do slightly more work to keep your horse moving, but I think that's to be expected when you suddenly shift from using the reins to control it to using your knees.

Oh poppycock... Thats realism gameplay talking there MoM. Hush you...

Wouldn't one be using stirrups if they're shooting from horseback?

[Neyvn]

I don't see what all the fuss about horse combat was, it works fine for me.
Yeah, if you're firing a bow then you need to do slightly more work to keep your horse moving, but I think that's to be expected when you suddenly shift from using the reins to control it to using your knees.

Oh poppycock... Thats realism gameplay talking there MoM. Hush you...

Wouldn't one be using stirrups if they're shooting from horseback?

Stirrups don't do much with steering...
To direct a horse without reins requires putting pressure on their shoulderblades, pressing with your knee on the left tells them to go left and so forth. Its quite difficult to do two things at once to be honest. Lancing is easier due to holding the reins with your shield hand behind the shield, but Bows require the full use of your hands...

[WillowLuman]

The mongols sure knew how to shoot from horseback...

Anyway, what most people seem to be bothered about with horse combat is that you can do everything except spells.

[timferius]

Well, if I was a horse and I felt fire flying over my head while my rider was making weird noises, I'd ditch him ASAP... maybe it's too hard to concentrate?

[WillowLuman]

If you can concentrate enough to fire a bow on horseback, a spell should be no problem.

[Furtuka]

Well with the motion involved and the size and destructive power of spells it would probably be a lot easier to accidentally graze the horse while using magic than it would be with an arrow

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I personally agree that not being able to use magic from horseback is silly, considering you can wield a two handed sword in one hand whilst on horseback

[Sensei]

To be fair, bows can be on fire too. And if friendly humanoid NPCs are anything to go by, nobody in the Elder Scrolls universe cares about avoiding friendly fire.

[Neyvn]

The mongols sure knew how to shoot from horseback...

Hence why Ghangis Kahn nearly took over all of Europe. The Mongolian tactic of Shooting from Horseback and fireing BACKWARDS while retreating proved a very challenging strategy to counter for many Europeans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Europe

[Domenique]

The mongols sure knew how to shoot from horseback...

Hence why Ghangis Kahn nearly took over all of Europe. The Mongolian tactic of Shooting from Horseback and fireing BACKWARDS while retreating proved a very challenging strategy to counter for many Europeans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Europe

I don't see how russia is nearly all europe.