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Anyway, my main point was really don't even bother trying to be super realistic/true to form, partly because it's a fantasy game and being realistic would itself be silly (and just plain unworkable) in some ways. If something looked especially awful it would probably bug me, but mostly I tell myself that Achaea has its own physics (and hey, it does, so it's okay).
I disagree with this for the following reason: Just because it's a game set in a fantasy environment doesn't mean some physics shouldn't, and are not expected to, conform to standard application. Yes, flying is something that can be done, but based on certain conditions that negate the already existent and accepted concept of gravity. So your main point seems to have been rather besides the point.
For a "regular" size horse that weighs around 1000 lbs (so puny by Achaean standards) not even trotting that fast (around 10 mph), his momentum very conservatively speaking is around 2033 kg-m/s - and we won't even add the rider with all his heavy gear, which in this case could *easily* add another 200-300 lbs (too much for our poor 1000 lb horse anyway). For a pretty big guy (around 200 lbs) who is running around trying to kill the rider at 10 mph, his momentum is around 407 kg-m/s. Their kinetic energy is about 4542J and 910J at that point, respectively.
Now let's take a nice sloooooooow canter, the sort of thing someone could easily manage with a well-trained horse in any space that isn't so small you *really* need to ditch the horse anyway (if you're not in Achaea). Adding just 3 mph, so that we're going 13 mph, the horse's momentum is now 2639 kg-m/s. Our 200 lb guy's momentum at the new speed is only about 528 kg-m/s. Now their kinetic energy is 7653J and 1531J.
Even though the horse is going just 3 mph hour faster now (and is still going sloooooooooow overall), his momentum gain alone is more than the entire momentum of the big guy running at the slightly faster speed (and it's a lot harder for him to bump up to that speed too).
Once you get even a little bit of momentum like that, the inertia helps make the rider rock solid in his stirrups so long as he's moving with the motion of his mount (it's also why very light stirrups tend to be hard to regain if you do slip a foot out - heavy ones drop back down and regain some semblance of stability so you can grab them back more easily).
If the space is cramped enough, though, the rider is pretty vulnerable on his horse now (as I'd indicated in my original post). Now, the horse becomes a liability if he can't maneuver sufficiently. Or entrenching... now things are really bad for us. Depending on how invulnerable we are to them in fantasy land, arrows could also be quite bad. Anyway, if people want to yank riders' feet out of stirrups in Achaea (or not), god bless 'em.
Momentum has absolutely ZERO relevance in to how Striking Feet dismounts an opponent. This is because the person on the mount is in the room, and it is thereby understood that the mount is in a standstill position.
I literally skimmed over your response, because it's obvious that the entire 3+ paragraphs are to do with 'momentum of the mount as it applies to dismounting your opponent', which has no bearing in anything to do with how dismounting works in Achaea.
Read please try to actually understand what the topic is about, by reading the previous and original responses, instead of throwing in random posts which contribute nothing of relevance.
What would you say the horse's momentum is in this case?
That edit isn't exactly an improvement...
In any case, I responded to you because you were insistent that things needed to conform more closely to real world mechanics than seems possible. You were the one wanting more "realistic", I am trying to explain why that's probably not reasonable/workable. That and your original idea isn't very realistic in any situation where a mount should/would be useful (which is just fine in Achaea, but let's not kid ourselves about its level of realism).
tl;dr - Horses/mounts in your thread, striking with/without a scabbard in mine please!
I *really* just wanted to make a single comment about the snippet of the thread I think I do have some insight on
Yes, please, move this thread along to its many other items.
From an old thread:
Mir can be something like...Body moving like undulating waves, you send a veiled strike at blah blah.
Something like that.
Initially thought of that, but considering that they already imagine the element when they enter the associated stance, it would come across as overly redundant.
I dont want to derail, but I would be nice if you actually sheathed your blade after each kill instead of between each hit. Looks kinda stupid drawing your blade and sheathing it the whole time.
But thats maybe just me..
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
So if you got it as a reaction, it'd probably have to be a bunch of reactions, perhaps even one reaction per attack (plus any you'd want for normal drawing)... and who knows if they do attack reactions... but, that's the avenue I'd look into.
That's what I was told by the customisation team anyway.
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