Mounts for lords: do or don't

[J]

The big health and speed bonus is always a tempting offer but going to a larger unit size could also make a lord more vulnerable. Are there situations where you choose to have your lord fight on foot even when there is a mount available for him or choose a mount that isn't the highest level mount available?

There's a ranged lizard lord that has the option of a flying mount or a more durable 4 legged dinosaur mount and in some circumstances the flyer seems like it makes more sense.

[HighPriest]

Horses are usually a downgrade for melee lords unless you're going to actually micro them like cav and do cycle charging. They're generally fine at that... but often not as good as actual cav, so it might not be worth the effort.

Pure casters and ranged shooters generally want the fastest mount available, with flight if possible.

Other mounts are situational, depending on if you want the lord to be part of your front line or not. If your lord is part of the line, you're usually better off on foot so they don't get swamped or pincushioned.

All that said, I would almost never turn down most of the highest tiers of mounts like Noctilus's Collossus or most of the dragons.

[Gamefever]

It is situational and full of nuance there really is no 1 shot answer to this.

Gotta understand that Lord/Hero's are like a tool in a toolbox, if you swap the mount in/out you change the function of that tool. Swap out disadvantages and advantage's for a new set.

Could go on about my favorite hero set up, a High Elf Noble on Great Eagle mount...About how its a really good hero killer, a super fast response character even in a pinch but more than likely some player will come along and say...."Oh thats complete weak sauce crap."
Because he probably wants 20 XXXsuperpowerful ROFL face on keyboard team and nothing less is going to cut it.

I have run into a lot of that in the forums, players that just expect a whole line of battleships that just mow everything down as it moves...that is really not this game.

These same people will trash talk Cavalry, Chariots, and pretty much everything else that they dont understand how to properly use in the game because it just wont kill everything with a stare.

[heh]

Only reasons not to mount a lord are:
1) he's cheaper on foot
2) you're making a one-man doomstack and think it's really funny to watch a tiny little foot lord spend 2 hours slowly meleeing an entire army to death

every other case, sacrificing speed and special abilities is stupid

[zefyris]

引用自 Egro：

My bad it's a WH2 thing. Totally did not check..lol.

Even in WH2, it was only a visual bug when you previewed the mount effects. Horse sized mounts in wh2 are not lowering stats either. They just appear to be when you mouse over the mount skill and you look at the preview, because the preview isn't taking in account a good part of the buffs that the lords is receiving.