Mounted Shooting

Hard

Default: ranged weapon skill-4.
Prerequisites:
Riding or a vehicle-operation skill
(Bicycling, Driving, Teamster, etc.), and a ranged weapon
skill; cannot exceed ranged weapon skill.
You’ve practiced shooting a ranged weapon from a mov-
ing mount or vehicle – chariot, horse, howdah, etc. You
must specialize by both weapon skill and mount or vehicle
type. Use the specialties listed for the two skills chosen as
prerequisites. Mounted Shooting (Bow/Horse) is extremely
common and called “Horse Archery” for brevity (p. B231).
If you’ve improved this technique, modifiers for a rough
ride and/or limited mobility (see Attacking from Moving
Vehicle or Mount, p. B548) – including those for turning in
the saddle to shoot – can’t reduce your weapon skill below
your Mounted Shooting level when using your chosen
weapon from the specified platform. Other penalties apply
normally. For instance, if you had Thrown Weapon (Spear)-
13 and Mounted Shooting (Thrown Spear/Chariot)-11, the
penalties for a bumpy chariot ride couldn’t reduce Thrown
Weapon (Spear) below 11, before other modifiers.
Remember that your skill with a mounted attack can’t
exceed Riding skill (p. B397). Combat Riding (p. 69) miti-
gates this for the rider himself, but his passengers are limit-
ed by his Riding skill.