oh boy i have no idea how THIS idea is gonna go over.
the idea is, our current horses are fast. but not good for much other than traveling.
i propose two new breeds, a work horse that can haul wagons faster that the current breed and has more meat on it by default. so they can be grown as a meat source as well.
and a war horse. one that can be taught moves, wear armor and its combat stats would increase with proper breeding. its quality could reflect is unarmed combat stat. and its strength agility and constitution could be its breedable stats. just like metabolism ect is for our current horses. its AI should also be tweakable with training. making your horse favor offense or defense or even kiting an enemy somewhere.
of course these two new horses would be slower than what we have now.
edit: while im at it, give us some combat moves that we can only use while mounted on a war horse. differentiate mounted fighters from unmounted fighters more.