Ndreare Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Speed and endurance I imagine. Strength would hardly be worth it in many cases if your humans can outpace the mount and the strength is hardly much more than a horse can generate. Without actually having measured it and actually knowing something in real life, only having worked around them a small amount: I imagine a horse can maintain a faster speed for much longer than almost any cow longer. However in cases were strength is significantly more (elephants) we see people sometimes do upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzimwi Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 oxen don't run right - there aren't different gaits like with a horse, a cow just panics and bolts. pre colonial africans rode oxen a fair amount. also, i think cows spent a lot more time eating low cal foods. then again, people ride elephants. there are two pages on the GURPS forum, one mine, about domestic dinosaurs and riding birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 In some cases in the quest to create an exotic mount, you're upscaling an animal in ways the square-cube law abhors. At that point, you can pretty much choose how the giant version of said animal functions . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Good question. Why is it that oxen, for example, and similar bovine creatures, are used as draft animals but seldom ridden?Lucius AlexanderI ride a palindromedary, which is probably "alternative" by anyone else's standards.... Well, oxen are uncomfortably broad, and slower than horses. But people have (and still do) ride cattle. Google "riding steer" and you'll get a ton of hits. I'm guessing that it is mostly to do with tradition. People have been riding horses for millennia, so ... People wanting a riding animal ride horses. Never underestimate the power of the illogical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 The problem with Moths and Butterflies is that they have a rather, um, erratic motion in flight that would be awful for the passenger. True. In real life there are several different breeds of horses because of need. I watched a special dealing with medieval horses. The warhorse as you see in most movies wouldn't be the best horse for everyday travel do to its expense and gait. I believe its the palfry was breed for a more gentle gait however the horse looks more like a llama than a majestic warhorse hence why the warhorse is seen more often. The rule of cool. On topic, you could have different breeds of moths to accommodate this Also in Star Wars 2ed. there is a picture of a stormtrooper riding a giant bat, that would be cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Just to speak up for the honour of the medieval war horse, there is no reason to think that they were any different from the animals recruited for the Household Cavalry today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Well, the ones bred to carry armored men would have been considerably larger. Belgians, Percherons, Clydesdales, and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Those are armoured men! A Nineteenth century heavy cavalryman was at least as heavily loaded as a medieval knight, and he rode a horse just like the ones in that video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ninja-Bear Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Thanks for hopping to it Old man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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