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Originally Posted by Suhiir
It CAN be done.
But it's such a niche instance it's not worthwhile to try to implement it game wide.
This sort of thing is EXACTLY why the editors are included with the game. Make these custom units/formations, use to your hearts content!
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Exactly.
The game cannot be everything to everybody
Four "crew" was thought to be a reasonable kludge to the problem of what to do with the horses when the troops that rode them are off playing silly bugger. Four men was thought to be able to control 10 horses but we gave the mount units weapons so that mounted the combined unit could fight on horseback and dismounted but when dismounted that leads to the possibility of the four handler "crew" being able to fight mounted even when the dismounts are off doing the same thing someplace else
The game can only simulate reality generally and some situations require " creativity ".
In reality if you have 2 units with 10 men per unit and you have 1 truck that can carry 16 total and a jeep like vehicle that can carry 4 you could get everyone on transport but not in the game because you cannot split units ( and never will ) You have to have a vehicle that can carry 20 or two units that can carry 10 ( which presents it's own unique warp of reality as you have 10 horses with 10 riders and 4 "crew".....14 men/ 10 horses)
Every mobile unit needs at least 1 crew so if we give the mounts 1 crew someone will point out that now one man is Roman riding 10 hourses while firing rifles and throwing hand grenades...( a very amusing mental image.......). so all the mounts in all oobs are the same. 4 crew, speed 12 and the capacity to carry
UP TO 10 riders
That compromise allowed every nation that used dismounted cav to work even though the number of riders ranged from 6 to 10 and it allowed players to use units that could be ridden into battle then the fighting troops dismounted. We could have just as easily NOT put dismounted cav in the game because of those inconsistancies...... ( they did not exist in the original.....only mounted cav)......but we did anyway
SOMETIMES game reality needs to be bent a bit to accomodate special cases especially cases few players use......... like ONE TIME in 26 years someone has made an issue of this particular inconsistency