Cavalry

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More or less,

Mounted horsemen.
Now in the game theres often an issue at early in the match generally people begin to dig in and theres quite a bit of open ground, and it lends toward the progression of the war its self. Where the conflict begun as a bit more of open warfare.

But as the round progresses the match quickly devolves into trench warfare and a mixture of mud, death and fire.

Which a Cavalry role could fit both quite well,

In short in the beginning of the round it could lean as a flanking danger to general infantry and is slowly combatted by engineers, machine gunners and storm troopers.

But as a match progresses they act more akin to mounted infantry. A loose mounted force that can traverse terrain that is diffcult for the motorised units in the game. And is used to flank around defences.

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Some ideas for skins/outfits

Men,

Germany,

Britian/Empire

A small footnote, the Australian Light horse uniform is already in the game, being that of the Aussie light gunner, it just doesn't have the option for the slouch with the EMU plume which is a crying god damned shame.
Other options to look at would be officers riding dress,
The Indian Cavalry Corps, New Zealand Mounted Rifles

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France,

Gameplay
Horses should be able to carry one rider, and one person on the back of the horse that can either not attack or at least able to use a small arm. IE officers/Engineers
Horses should have a low health score around 200 atleast able to take atleast limited small arms fire Very limited
But machine gun fire should absloutely instakill a horse with no question, Gas and artilery should be an insta kill.

Cavalry, should not be heavily armored or be at all resistant to barbed wire. Horses should absloutely get entangled in that stuff it shouldn't even be a question. But it should be more so that atleast 9 to 5 cavarly can be played in any match or round with 250 matches offering 10 to 15 to be playable. Offering atleast more classes for people to play as admits a game and cavarly charges could absolutely do a thing. And at least two playstyles should absolutely be offered.
There should be a high accuracy penality whilst shooting and moving, Horses should have a chance to freak the fuck out if something explodes right next to you, and it bucks you.
Different breeds of horse should be a thing, if you die and the horse doesn't any one should have the ability to get on that horsey.

The first being a Mounted Infantry/Mounted Rifleman
Style of gameplay, where your primary is a bolt action rifle/revolver. Where it is incentivized to either fight on the back on the back of your horse. Or to cooperate with your fellow horsemen and to flank around the battle and attack the enemy from behind or atleast a flank. So they are limited in their ability to defend/ attack a point making another point of attack. But on their own cannot take the enemy head on.
But operating in tandem with Infantry and officers allowing an engineer to ride on the back of a horse slightly reducing its speed. But allowing horsemen to work with ones team and offer even greater flanks and a semi all terrain vehicle that slightly struggles with trenches but less so than motor bike.

The second being Lancers

Lancers should be a meme playstyle where you can equip a lance and should be able to kill one man at a time with a lance if you get close enough to use it. HOWEVER, it should take up a primary slot, not a melee slot. With horses already being vulnerable to machine gun fire and barbed wire it could be quite funny to see lancers in the early rounds of matches go on kill streaks. One must be 'aiming' the lance in order to activate having it 'crouched lanced' and one should be moving atleast a galop to use the lance in its fullest regard.

A few other things, with the lance equiped it should absolutely be considered your primary. If you want a rifle you have to pick up a dropped weapon.

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The Rush to the Sea (1914) would be EPIC with horses and minimal trenching

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Exactly, the class how I imagine it? Would thrive there.

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But mostly cav lets the class balance happen a bit more along with securing a more so contiguous front for soldiers.

Also to meme.

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Cavalry should offer a couple melees, that being primarly swords of any kind, riding with a sword out should have a form of charging animation, where the sword is pointed forward.

Cav should evidently be faster than most forms of transport, horses should have a walk, trot and galloping walking paces, different horse breeds offer different mobility and or benfits.

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Horse breeds,

British/ empire

Australian Waler horses are noticeably less loud whilst in a gallop providing an element of stealth. Whilst people aren’t looking, along with a slight health buff. charge at beersheba inspired

Thoroughbred
slight speed buff,

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well now I want an australian waler horse so I can round up the illegals in my neighborhood all quiet like

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Also a german breed that has more health than the rest of the horses, a french that has a faster pace when crouch lanced. Stuff like that.

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And the Turkoman horse has the most agility and or mobility along with endurence.

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a lancer with no rifle, dubious sounding lance mechanics (Unlike NW/Warband or BF1)

advocating a playstyle based on it being a meme

at least from OP+instant machine gun kills

that's a no from me

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Well, think about it like this, there HAS to be a balance to the mechs some where and insperation from history. Lancers WERE used in ww1, though, a more warband style lancing would likely work allot better.

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Also, horses CANT survive machine gun fire, the RIDER can possibly miss a couple rounds and survive, but horses cannot absloutely by no means tank machine gun fire.

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Also, look at engineer in game and tell me it doesn't have meme playstyles.

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if machine guns one shot horses

as in one bullet

then a rifle should do the same

it only makes logical sense

if thats the point you are arguing

For example,

the SMLE and Vickers gun both used the same bullet and catridge.

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They shouldn't tank fire of any kind but they also shouldn't just fall in one bullet, two would be more reasonable.

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Engineer has a clear role, that fits with the design of the game ,which also involves the crucial ability to place forward spawns.

Also if you add horse bucking

I think that would a step into the realism department

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Although this is contentious imo

because war horses were trained with gunfire and shellfire in mind.

Holdfast just has the horse get stopped instantly when taking any kind of damage, it sways around a bit too, I think that's a step too far but it could slow down from a gallop still.

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also you if you add bucking to gun fire and shells

why not just make x% chance that the horse will buck the player upon spawning or if they ride terribly

:p

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People can't survive machine gun fire too

there's a lot of circumstances where a machine gun hits you in-game but doesn't kill.

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If people were to argue that it's adrenaline or whatever

then the player character should still die once it wears off :p

It's not like there's a field hospital you can visit in-game

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Also with these randomised mechanics in mind

why not just add trenchfoot or infections from debris?

some of the cosmetics used helmet covers that could cause infections

I don't think the devs are going to add cavalry based on the suggestions channel anyways.

They probably already throughly thought about it and are either A: not adding it, or B: adding it into the game, it can't be any other way.

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my justification for this btw

nevermind the manuals and training

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I do agree with that