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[Lord_Shadow]

has anyone thought of adding the [NOFEAR] tag to horses?

[Shima]

[NOFEAR] might work.  Probably means they won't run from you in the wild (Easy hunting?  Horse steak, tatar style!), but it could also mean they'll come in while used as mounts.

What'd I'd be afraid of is the implications of adding it.  Roving bands of murderous horses, horses jumping and killing adventurers like they were wolves or sometime.  It would need testing, but it would undoubtedly be Fun.

[Sutremaine]

has anyone thought of adding the [NOFEAR] tag to horses?

Yes.

[Jim Groovester]

But the question is, would removing that tag suddenly make wild horses thirst for the blood of Urist?

I doubt it. It would make them more like wolves, where they still keep their distance, but will attack if a dwarf gets too close.

You could always remove the [BENIGN] tag as a siege arrives and then put it back on once it's broken.

[Byakugan01]

Just give them the carnivore and likes fighting tag. Flesh eating horses of the apocalypse!

[Leafsnail]

Maybe you could try adding the [trAINABLE] tag, then making it so only war/ hunting horses have no fear, then make it so humans only ride war/ hunting horses?  This would hopefully eliminate the problem of killer bands of horses.

Wait, would humans actually bother to train the horses?

[Jim Groovester]

Nope, they wouldn't bother. I added [trAINABLE] to horses on my current goblin fort on hearsay that it supposedly made the animals much more aggressive like dogs, so that the siegers wouldn't be pansies that my champions had to chase down, but unfortunately, it didn't do anything. And anyway, the horses don't come trained, they're just regular tame horses.

Really, people, if you're talking about adding a bunch of different tags to make them attack people but not be flesh eating carnivores, there's no need to go through all the effort. Removing [BENIGN] accomplishes the exact same thing. It prevents them from running away at the first sight of your soldiers and they will engage in combat. They'll still break and flee, though.