Horse Archery

Horse Archery is a technique improving bow skill while on horseback. Modifiers from firing on horseback can never reduce Bow below the Horse Archery skill. For instance, if you had Bow-13 and Horse Archery-11, penalties from the horse couldn't reduce your skill below 11.Basic Set: Characters, p.231
* Hard
* Default: Bow-4
* Prerequisites: Bow and Riding
* Maximum: Cannot exceed Bow skill
As the Mounted Shooting skill expanded horseback ranged attacks, Horse Archery is effectively shorthand for Mounted Shooting (Bow/Horse).Martial Arts, p.74
== Typical Penalties ==
* -3 for a rideable mount that hasn't trained for war
* -2 if the mount dodged without your knowledge
* Aiming
* Tricks
** -4 to fire backwards (a Parthian shot)
** -6 to hang sideways and fire over your mount (useful if your mount has a lot of DR
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== Other Considerations ==
* For maintaining control of a mount that wasn't ready for war, see Combat Riding
== References ==
Category:Techniques