Horsemanship(Skill)

3.4.4 Horsemanship
The ability to ride a horse. Where mounts other than horses are available, the skill is gained individually for each creature. If the person learning is already a trained horseman, reduce the cost to gain the knowledge at EL0 by 20 expertise points.

Expertise Effect

 * 1) When fighting from horseback, on a war-trained mount, add the Horsemanship EL to the EL of the weapon used for all hit chance and damage modifiers.
 * 2) The Horsemanship EL may always be used independently of the Weapon EL, i.e. one can be used offensively while the other is used defensively.
 * 3) The EL required to ride and control each type of mount, for which Horsemanship is applicable, is listed in Table 3.4.
 * 4) In combat, while charging only, the rating of a war-trained mount is added to the horsemanship EL of the rider if that EL is sufficient to control the mount. The same factor is added to the damage scored by a charge, if the mount is controlled.
 * 5) The EL of a horseman that cares for his wounded mount is subtracted from its healing chance roll, in addition to any healing skills that he may have. The EL×10 is his chance of determining how good the animal is without husbandry skill in horses. If judging a related species to one he has skill in EL×5 is used.

Table 3.4: EL required to ride mount types
* May never be used in combat. The rider must dismount to fight.