ElioraArin Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I am beginning an update for a mod of mine that adds more horses to Skyrim. Personally I can't stand my horses jumping into battle & therefore I use the cowardly feature in "Convenient Horses" to make them run to safety like any normal horse would! I am considering making the horses in my mod behave this way as it is so much more realistic. Generally do people prefer their horses to fight or flee when you are under attack while dismounted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AraFox Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 MHO - I love to ride a horse but if one jumps into my fight, I'm liable to kill it unintentionally. I always set them to cowardly. It's always nice to have options, but if I had to choose I'd pick them to stay out of the way every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 One of the mods I use has a horse that will actually attack bandits and such, but will flee from tougher opponents. It helps that the horse is set to essential by the mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElioraArin Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 I am leaning towards making the mortal horses cowardly, & setting Shadowmere & Arvak as essential with the level of aggression that the mortal horses used to have due to their supernatural natures. Personally that would put me off using those two mounts as I hate my horses fighting my battles & getting in the way as AraFox mentioned, so I'm interested to hear how other people feel about it.Thanks for the input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevkiev Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Another vote for cowardly here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBizkit Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Cowardly all the way. If they were aggressive, they would only get in the way. Just like followers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signette Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Cowardly of course, but I mostly fight in melee and if it's ranged then those are AoE spells like fireball. Maybe for sneaky ranger Aggressive Horse would do better, but still rather risky I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The one feature I think is great with any horse mod is a summons and disappear spell. BTW, the name Fraidy Horses sounds both cute and descriptive. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElioraArin Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) Cowardly it is :D I might see if I can make Shadowmere & Arvak just stand there & not run away but also not fight.Moksha: It's actually a mod that already exists & I'm updating - otherwise I might go for that name as it is pretty endearing! But I might consider doing a separate mod with one summonable horse, I think it may already have been done though? & of course there is already Arvak ... I'm really just modding for myself & sharing what I think others might use, so it wouldn't be a priority, especially when I haven't attempted anything with spells yet. Edit: Being able to summon Shadowmere would be a good feature ... Edited April 4, 2016 by ElioraArin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signette Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Would you mind to give us some links to your mods? After CH I became pretty much horse-lover (not in a dirty way mind you=), so would be interesting to check out related mods too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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