Sort of OT; Skills question

[Targan]

Originally Posted by weswood

So, would a cavalryman on horse using a saber use the Fencing skill, where the saber falls under, or Sword (long)? Fencing to me is Three Musketeers dueling type fighting where foot placement & movement and precise strikes are a major part. Swordfighting, while footwork is important, is more brute force. Or should I just add a subskill- Horseback fighting?

IIRC in Harnmaster when you fight from horseback you average your applicable weapon skill with Riding skill, with the caveat that the averaged skill can't be higher than Riding skill. But to reduce the severity of that latter part of the rule, perhaps the *effective* skill can't be higher than Riding skill (the effective skill meaning the averaged skill plus or minus any difficulty, environmental or situational modifiers) .