I almost feel bad spamming questions but hey, I have them. Anyway, Classes as Mounts. The keyword mount says "When taken as a mount, use the rider's discipline to determine how many may be in a single squad" fair enough. Now I'm helping my room mate with his faction and he's making dinosaur riding gnomes. His dino mounts are level 2 and his riders are level 1. Since you normally take less level 2's then 1's I'm assuming that the mount trait over rides it IF you are taking them as mounts. So at conflict size Battle (750-1500) where you can only have level 2 classes at discipline x1, since you are taking them as mounts you get them as discipline 2x from the level 1s. Easier to read clarification: Gnomes, discipline 4. Dino mounts, discipline 2. At Conflict Battle size, the Dino's would be squad size 2 BUT if taken as mounts they would be at squad size 8 (with riders) correct?
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Which would make the mount trait OP.
Normal equipment mounts disappear when the rider is slain.
The mount trait on a class means that the mount class would stay in play even if the rider dies.
In a encounter lvl game the lvl 1 let's say are a squad of 4
Your allowed to bring 1 lvl 2 unit
The way your think about it would mean that even if the mount class counted towards the squad that's still 1 more lvl 2 unit brought while your oppent likely can only bring 1 lvl2
And even if you manged to kill the rider the lvl 2s are still in play and are able to be mount by other models.
The way our group handles classes with the mount ability is that you take the mount-class in suitably-sized units, and then pre-game have them be mounted by whatever you want to ride them. They'll still function as normal, but belong to the squad riding them.
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Which brings into question whether this'd count against the squad size of the squad riding them... =/
good question, the way I understand it. if a mount is taken as a piece of equipment then you follow the rule of the riders discipline, if a class is given the mount ability then the rules of the class squad is followed. your not wrong in how your reading the rule as there isnt anything specifically stating one way of the other, I just feell like that would be way OP at an encounter lvl game, you'd be able to take a full squad of lvl 2s against a player that could only field 1 an even if the rider dies would still be on the table. that trait really does need to be updated to tell how it works for class vs equipment
just an after thought
, if the lvl 2s were given as equipment then if the rider dies the mount would be removed from the game.