Originally posted by White Knight:Your horse gets 'killed' in combat and becomes a normal animal, losing it's status (Spirited, Heavy, etc.). Something impressive - bigger, stronger and faster.a beast brought over from the mainland or something like that? Those prized tournament horses should be a lot more special, in my mind too. Hell, you'd be lucky to get one as a tournament prize. They don't appear in the loot very often (if at all?) and you'd be lucky to get more than one from tournaments. The trick to getting multiple horses is to buy them lame and heal them up yourself. Horses are fragile and prohibitively expensive because knuckle-dragging neanderthals resent anything that makes life difficult for sword and shield thugs. I have two Champion horses but I'm too afraid to ride them.ДЄ Heavy horse is about as sturdy an animal as you can get. Having spare horses means that you can always swap out a lame horse and keep them all alive indefinitely. When a lamed horse gets taken out, it dies. If that horse gets taken out, it becomes lame. I'm not totally clear on the process but I think it works something like this: Your horse gets 'killed' in combat and becomes a normal animal, losing it's status (Spirited, Heavy, etc.). This not only allows me to move more quickly on the campaign map but it also means that I always have a good horse to swap out when my mount goes lame. I keep about five or six extra horses in my inventory. The rarity with which they are handed out gives the impression you are getting something wondrous but it's not true.they're just cheapskates. Even when refined by armour and weaponsmiths, it's all pretty mediocre. The swords are barely fit for giving to your mid-level companions, the armour is worse than stuff you can pick up from the battlefield, etc.

Originally, VC had almost no horses at all, which is why getting a 'normal' horse as a tournament prize was a big deal. Then you have ponies for when your horse gets taken down and that's all you can find on the battlefield. Horses come in everything from Lame to Champion, with all sorts of colours. Apparently, some people believe there were no horses in Britain in the 9th century? Of course, the chariots of the Ancient Celts and horse worshipping cults like Epona brought over by the Romans during their centuries of occupation, don't seem to matter much to those folks.

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