Some question about combat riding with non-combat trained mount

[-Grijm-]

Regarding the Mount Spell which lets you summon a non-combat trained mount, was wondering what movement is it to make it charge a foe or doing a ride-by attack.

The closest I have found in the Ride skill check which is Control Mount in Battle:

Control Mount in Battle:

Control Mount in Battle: As a move action, you can attempt to control a light horse, pony, heavy horse, or other mount not trained for combat riding while in battle. If you fail the Ride check, you can do nothing else in that round. You do not need to roll for horses or ponies trained for combat.

But this takes up the move action, so I assume it is not possible to charge to activated spirited charge.

The mount itself never attacks as I am using a lance.

Currently playing a core only game which I am using a purchased combat trained pony which dies too easily. Trying to find a way to replenish one in between combat.

[Claxon]

Let me give you some advice. If you want to play a mounted character, you need an animal companion. Anything else will continue to die too easily. If you're going to build around mounted combat, it will be way too easy to lose your mount otherwise.

Regardless, if you're not trying to get your mount to attack you should be able to make it "charge", but you will need to make a DC 20 ride check to "control mount in battle". If your GM is a stickler, technically your mount has to make an attack. But as a whole, as written, mounted combat doesn't work the way it should. Since this is PFS, I'm not sure how it will work.

[-Grijm-]

Claxon wrote:

Let me give you some advice.

If you want to play a mounted character, you need an animal companion. Anything else will continue to die too easily. If you're going to build around mounted combat, it will be way too easily to lose your mount.

Since this is core only, even with an animal companion, they die way too easily either. I'm playing a fighter/ranger which lets me at least switch to archery as a backup plan. I really treat the mount as a once a day thing. Just hoping to find a way to increase that to more times per day.

Claxon wrote:

Regardless, if you're not trying to get your mount to attack you should be able to make it "charge", but you will need to make a DC 20 ride check to "control mount in battle". If your GM is a stickler, technically your mount has to make an attack. But as a whole, as written, mounted combat doesn't work the way it should. Since this is PFS, I'm not sure how it will work.

Same here, I figured a DC20 should be fair enough to at least make it do that, that was before I noticed it says "As a move action..". As a charge requires a full round, not sure if it works anymore. =\