#New Horsemanship Schools (馬術流派 新設) — Section Index
Contents
#Identity
The core's Horsemanship skill has no schools at all. This expansion introduces a school system to Horsemanship for the first time. Centered on the schools of equestrian peoples (Mongol, Cossack, Saracen, Spanish), it also includes the Japanese mounted-warrior tradition.
#Design Goals
- Minimum 3, maximum 6 kinds of Horsemanship schools (since these are newly created, a minimum of 3 kinds is strictly observed).
- A mix of school types:
- Famous schools 1~2 kinds (samurai mounted warrior, Mongol bodyguard)
- Secret Transmission 0~1 kind (secret nomadic succession)
- Self-Taught Style 0~1 kind (ronin Horsemanship)
- Foreign styles 2~4 kinds (Mongol, Cossack, Saracen, Spanish jineta)
- Closely linked with the mounted-combat general technique. School techniques are designed to be usable even without the general technique.
- Includes non-combat applications such as long-distance courier, court ceremonial escort, arena racing, and long-distance marching.
#§ This Section's File List
ex2-15-01-new-schools.md— 6 new Horsemanship schools
#Reference Documents
Core required:
- Schools (流派) — school frame
- School Data (流派資料) — existing school data (no Horsemanship)
- Skill List (技能目錄) — distinction between Horsemanship and Riding skills
- Progression (成長體系) — general technique "mounted combat"
1st expansion (format reference):
Within this expansion:
- Archery·Gunnery School Expansion (弓術·銃術 流派) — Section Index — mounted-Archery cross
- Famous Squads (有名分隊) — Section Index — famous mounted squads (Mongol bodyguard, Cossack)
- Cross-Cultural School Index (汎文化 流派 索引) — Section Index
#§ Scent — The Same Breath of the Plains
A plain on the Manchurian frontier. Two cavalrymen spotted a band of bandits at the same time.
One was a descendant of the Keshik — a 16th-century Mongol elite who inherited the legacy of the old Genghis Khan bodyguard. A short bow and a curved blade. One who matched the horse's stride to his own breath.
The other was an Ottoman sipahi — a sultan's bodyguard cavalryman. A composite bow and a scimitar. He too was one who sent arrows from horseback to the very end of their range.
The two cavalrymen looked at each other. The bandits were in a valley 200 meters away. Different banners, different languages, different Faiths from each other.
Yet the same enemy.
Without a word, the two took up their bows at the same time. The same evasion curve — wheeling their horses into the bandits' blind spot. The same breath — the moment the bowstring touched the side of their own chest. The same loose — the bandit chieftain and the sub-chieftain at once.
Two arrows crossed 200 meters and brought down two targets in a single breath.
The remaining bandits fled. The two cavalrymen drew their two curved blades at the same time and gave chase. One's curved blade was Mongol-style, the other's scimitar was Ottoman-style. The form differed, the curvature differed, the hilt differed.
Yet the two swords cut the same enemy in the same instant.
After the bandit band was finished, the two cavalrymen bowed facing each other. Neither spoke a word. The flow of the plains had already said everything.
"The horse makes a swordsman twice as tall. And the speed of the battlefield four times as fast."