Actually no, being mounted just makes you harder to rescue as it raises the hidden 'weight' stat. The prevalent idea that being mounted increases your CON is mostly because Haspen lists it as doing so in the character sheets, but that isn't the case as to how the rules actually play out if one were to look at the mage knight in FEF 1 or any other mounted unit with a weapon above their non-mounted CON. I assume he does so because the sheet would look weird if he added another stat.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Being mounted is supposed to increase your CON. Wasn't there a big debate over how useless the AID stat was because you could use CON in exactly the same way?
I always figured that "weight" was just a typo because it isn't used anywhere else in the book except when referring to weapons.
The debate was my own, and I wasn't debating over how AID was useless because you can use CON in exactly the same way, but rather that AID
was CON given one point less, thus extraneous as you could simply say 'below your CON' instead of 'at your AID or below.'
Yeah, the book has a few problems as we can see. It's why I call 'weight' a hidden stat, it isn't shown on the sheet and not mentioned much because it
is your CON. The only time it really comes up is with mounted units.
@Role: Totally. You can even make exceptions for such classes in your other skills, as I've done with Sal for Priests.
Edited for clarity and additional commentsThe social rank and the class of Knight are divorced in this game as far as I know, so the skill set of the class isn't exactly socially restricted. Doesn't mean that one couldn't be both, just that this assumption might lead to silly instances which, while funny to point out, might not be intended.