For the Huntmaster Cavalier Archetype, am I correct that they do not get the bonus light armor proficiency? And do they count as combat trained, or trained in some other way, or not at all?
EDIT: Additonal question: while the Tactician ability only affects the hunting pack for the huntmaster, the order abilities still work with all allies, right?
...The Huntmaster still gets an order, right? There are at least a couple that really don't work with it (Shield and Sword)
Okay this has been bugging me and now I HAVE to ask, where is this archetype? I've been searching for it forever, and I can't find it on the SRD or PRD.
Animal Archive, which came out recently. It's listed on d20pfsrd here
Ah. Every time I searched for it it came up as Page Not Found.
Looking at it, they function exactly as a Druid's Animal Companion. As far as I know, Animal Companions do not have any armor proficiency (they do get Feats, with which you can buy it), but they ARE combat trained by default.
Or, well, they get "bonus tricks" for free which don't have to be taught, which means they CAN come combat trained (or at the very least have the Attack trick) from the get-go.
a druid’s or ranger’s animal companion knows one or more bonus tricks, which don’t count against the normal limit on tricks known and don’t require any training time or Handle Animal checks to teach.
The value given in this column is the total number of “bonus” tricks that the animal knows in addition to any that the druid might choose to teach it (see the Handle Animal skill). These bonus tricks don’t require any training time or Handle Animal checks, and they don’t count against the normal limit of tricks known by the animal. The druid selects these bonus tricks, and once selected, they can’t be changed.
There's a chart on the Animal Companion page that shows when they get a new one.
So they don't automatically come with any tricks aside from the one bonus, but they continue to gain more bonus traits plus you can manually train them for the normal up to 3xINT score tricks or a general purpose not in excess of that?
Yeah. They get 1 free trick every X levels, starting at first, and then you can train them like any other animal.