[quote=@MelonHead]
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You'd need a horse, which is the main turn off for me. 
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I wouldn't say you [i]need [/i]a horse. In fact, a Samurai largely being a horse archer, has less business being on foot with only a sword than a knight (who historically dismounted for sieges anyway.) yet they pull it off pretty well. (perhaps unreasonably well from a historic stand point, they don't even get the option of a shield after all for some absurd reason)