Horses have been an important part of human warfare for thousands of years. Overtime the use and role of the horse in war evolved as warfare itself evolved. The first and foremost class of mounted warfare was cavalry who fought on horseback. Mounted infantry or dragoons were soldiers who rode horses in battle but were trained to dismount and fight on foot. With the advent of mechanical warfare horses were reaching obsolescence in war but they continued to be used and were still important. In WW1 on the Western Front cavalry was used in the early phases before trench warfare settled in and only in some instances; on the Eastern Front and Middle Eastern Front cavalry were still able to do their traditional job.
While WW1 was the birth of mechanical warfare WW2 saw it’s most advanced evolution to date, horses continued to be an extremely important part of war. Vehicles and tanks replaced horses in the cavalry role but some cavalry still managed to fight in this new mechanized war. During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines the US 26th Cavalry Regiment performed the last American cavalry charge against Japanese forces. On the vast Eastern Front Germany and Soviets mounted warfare was more common and used occasionally.
I am suggesting a new Cavalry class to represent how important horses were to the war. In function the “Cavalry” class is a mix between cavalry and dragoons but in the heat of battle does it honestly make a difference whether you ride the horse or dismount. Like with APCs and Paratroopers (and Riders too!) you have the option to spawn with the horse or on foot. Like motorcycles the horse will carry ammo supplies (and health too IMO!) so it can support the team, just as horses were also important for carrying supplies. You can fight on horseback by shooting your firearms, but the Cavalry can come equipped with a sword by default which you can slash enemies with as you ride.
Unfortunately, this class would most likely have to be just a single soldier like Saboteur. As cool as it would be to have a mass cavalry charge, I doubt the game could handle you having a squad of 5 or more cavalrymen, all with horses, to charge the enemy. Unless you organize with your teammates!
I know what you’re thinking, cavalry wouldn’t do well in this chaotic game. Machine guns, assault rifles, artillery, tanks, planes, bombs, etc. If WW1 marked the end of cavalry, then WW2 was it’s last hurrah. But cavalry and horses still served in this new mechanized era. I think that if Battlefield 1 made cavalry work, then this game can too
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Unironically makes more sense than the saboteur class…
Still no, though…
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This definitely was a thing in the war, but would be absolutely pointless with the spammed HE unless it stayed on certain maps against certain armament at the start of the war…like Blitzkrieg in Poland but we don’t have it in game. Cool idea but they are having issues with the game mechanics they have let alone adding new ones.
Now if they put the horsepower into jeeps that have MGs…that’s the Rider class expansion.
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Is it truly pointless though. Yes there is chaos of the battlefield, but if our humans have to deal with it does a horse make that much of a difference. It would basically be a “meme class” that sometimes would be able to shine through. It would mostly be used for hit and run tactics, riding on the flanks and charging in to shock the enemy then racing away. Plus it can carry supplies that also helps the team so you could just park the horse somewhere
I think horses would do well when compared to motorcycles. I doubt a horse will get stuck on every little rock on the ground.
I do think Rider should receive cars as their second vehicle. But if horses were to be added they would be in their own Cavalry class. Riders are mechanical cavalry, horses are the original
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be fun, I’m saying the majority of the horse use was at the start of the war because they didn’t have the mechanized divisions they had by the end. By Normandy the Allies had logistical problems of clearing all of the horse carcasses…bigger target, easier to down.
Then there is the issue that it would have to be another 1 man squad because the AI wouldn’t work there…we already have meme Saboteur 1 man squads, I just don’t think it’s beneficial to the team.
Some say that about Medic too with the thousands of ways to get blown up and die in this game they say why bother healing. Despite the controversy Saboteur is still useful in its own way too.
I think the major factors of adding a class are if it’s fun, useful (somehow) and historical representation.
Who knows, maybe one day we actually could have an AI squad of fellow cavalrymen like all the others. Or groups organize a cavalry charge for the meme 
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It’s nonsense, something like that wouldn’t work in Squad based game
And there’s definitely no need for a class that has only one soldier.
while i would like horses in enlisted for a very specific type of mods which would be of niche.
i can’t see horses working in the enlisted engine.
they would be utterly janky.
kinda same reasons why we don’t have bicycles.
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it can be a rider 2 class 
Vehicles barely function so we should add horses?
I know the Germans Used horses for logistics (a lot) and the US used them for recon…
Seriously though sounds fun but I feel you need at least three mounted infantry to do something practical on the field. I voted yes but I would prefer a Harley WLA without a Side car before this…
I would think a lot of people would probably like an armored jeep with a .50cal or an SAS chev truck, not to mention the Kettenkrad.
Good luck I hope something comes of this…
given the average skills of an enlisted developer, in the best of cases the horses will be bugged at Skyrim level
In real life individual Cavalry/ mounted infantry units numbered close to a standard foot infantry squad (multiple men and horses). If it were up to me I would have a full unit as the squad. But…
Look at Rider or even tanks and planes for the matter. These vehicles operated in groups as a single unit but I don’t think the game could handle a tank “squad” having multiple tanks like our infantry squads have multiple soldiers. So this game treats vehicles as an individual squad itself. So they would probably make the Cavalry squad be the individual horse like Rider is an individual bike
I also would add multiple Saboteurs
Rider 2 should be cars like jeeps and kubelwagens.
Cavalry/ horses are a completely different unit all together
for WWI, hell yeah.
but those guys won,t last more that 5 seconds while i play my gunner, the fact is cavalary enter in obsolences due automatic guns, especialy heavy mahchine guns, that wiped entire cavalary units in seconds.
tanks entered to avoid such counter while move, so armor entered to stop bullets and give more mobility by armor, instead simple even more mobility. the proof of it is rieder squads, bikes don,t last that much.
BUT.
jeaps make more sense that horses. carry 5 men armed whit assault rifles. park somewhere behind a house, say the boys to have fun. 
