I wonder

[Upon Mars.]

I wonder in avernum and see chariots and an idea sported out of my brain why didn't jeff made war chariots as in monsters to fight with?

[Ephesos]

They'd be hard to deal with, I imagine. The death animation would be... strange, and they'd have to leave chariots behind upon dying (or so I'd guess). In fact, all the graphics for them would be... strange.

[Randomizer]

Besides in Avernum, the only thing to draw chariots are those giant lizards and they will usually attack you rather than pull the chariots. Fighting them all the time since you don't have the training to control them will mean less distance travelled.

[Alorael at Large]

Chariots require flat, unbroken terrain for their wheels. Avernum is a cave full of stalagmites and rubble. Aside from roads, where would they be useful? Besides, while cave lizards are apparently acceptable draft animals and beasts of burden, I don't think they'd be up to the sustained quick movement required for effective chariots.

 

—Alorael, who was going to point out that cavalry generally replaced the chariot and that the Empire has cavalry until he realized that it doesn't seem to be true. The Empire has horses for riding, but all the soldiers appear to be unmounted. That's either for convenience on Jeff's part or because the Empire is an odd place.

[Dintiradan]

The Avernum trilogy has regular sized creatures and tall creatures, but no long creatures. It would be a lot harder to implement enemies that take up more than one tile.

 

Mad Ambition (BoA) has cavalry. However, you can't keep the horse when you kill them (though now that I think about it, I could be possible...).

 

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[Emperor Tullegolar]

Quote:

opon mars:
I [wander] in avernum and see chariots

Those aren't chariots, they're wagons. Wagons are fine because they only travel along the roads in Avernum. Unless you plan on fighting battles on roads instead of on open cave floor, chariots would be very inefficient. On the surface, why not? I suppose that would work, but it would be a very ambitious graphic indeed for someone to actually make.

[Fort]

It would not be impossible because the graphics can overlap a little. You would need the horses to stand on their hind legs so that the monster graphic would not need to be as "long."

[Dikiyoba]

Originally by Alorael:

 

Quote:

The Empire has horses for riding, but all the soldiers appear to be unmounted. That's either for convenience on Jeff's part or because the Empire is an odd place.

There don't seem to be all that many horses, though. Maybe they were recently discovered and so they are still too scarce and valuable to ride into battle.

 

Dikiyoba.

[Alorael at Large]

Except there are stables in backwater towns willing to sell horses to suspiciously pale foreigners for very reasonable prices.

 

—Alorael, who now feels guilty once again. He should really stop getting his mounts killed in the Filth Factory.