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Have any of you tried melee combat from a horse or other mount?
Do you find that you're too far off the ground, and your attacks don't seem to work too well?
Well, the obvious solution to that problem is to implement lances into the mod. These lances would be used by mounted units of Rohan, Gondor, Harad, and the Elves (these are the only factions where lances would make sense, Wargs and Boars aren't tall enough that it's a problem). When fighting from their mounts, they would use their lance to deal damage, the same amount that is usually dealt by a sword. If their mount was slain, these units could switch back to a dagger and fight in the same way that a regular unit does.
The lance would have a reach of 1 meter farther than a sword, but would attack more slowly.
The crafting pattern would be as follows on a Rohirric, Gondorian, Near Haradrim, or Elven Crafting Table (the Galadhrim Lance would require Mallorn sticks):
X I I
X S I
S X X
where S = stick, and I = iron ingots.
There should also be an Iron lance, for those unable to reach a faction-related crafting table.
Glflegolas (talk) 13:16, September 24, 2014 (UTC)
Good idea and well written. Gen. Grievous1138 (talk) 20:02, September 24, 2014 (UTC)
I suggested this before and the guys from the mod team liked it. However, weapon range is not changeable for Mevans.
My suggestion was that the lance (might also be spears) can be right-clicked to lower it. If your lance/spear is lowered, the first mob that comes in front of your horse gats massive damage and knockback and the lance/spear is hold normal again. Sinthoniel (talk) 21:47, September 27, 2014 (UTC)
Tell you what, after thinking about it a while longer, I was thinking of the same thing; after all, when Rohirim or knights charged into battle, they held their lances out in front of them and charged their horses into their enemies. However, it should be possible to change the range of a lance; BalkondeurAlpha did it for the spear in his mod (shown below):
Spear (Balkon's Weaponmod)
Damage: Less than a sword
Knockback: Small
Reach: 1 block further
Right click: Throw it, will not disappear on hit.
You can also hit mobs from a bit further.
Made from wood, stone, iron, diamond and gold.
Now, I'm not suggesting that the Balkon's Weapon's Mod spear be added, but maybe Mevans could ask BalkondeurAlpha about how to change the reach of melee weapons? Glflegolas (talk) 10:36, September 28, 2014 (UTC)