I quite sympathise with @Sera67 - I remember being somewhat perturbed when Lucy suddenly developed in unexpected ways.
While I agree from a realism perspective, it is perhaps also fair to acknowledge that this is an area where REH was also an ‘offender’, with Conan reasonably frequently riding a stallion. Perhaps for reasons of machismo, or perhaps to indicate that being so ‘wild’ himself he could work in synch with a wilder horse than lesser men
Either way, I would prefer a mare or a gelding if I was to for some reason need to ride into battle (post-apocalypse gas shortage maybe?
). I suppose maybe there could be some argument that a stallion would be more aggressive - so perhaps more useful in combat with limited training - but I’m reasonably sure that a well-trained gelding would be more useful, since working with the rider would be more useful than natural aggression… Anyway, I’m drifting far off topic here, just found it interesting.
Main point is that, while admittedly low on the priority order, this would seem a very simple/quick thing to fix, and I’d add my vote in favour of it being so (not that this is a democracy…).
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