Don't like mounts? Get a long bow and use objects. Better yet, spend 300 points and invest a lot more into your build than the standard foot fighter. I never understood this argument. You don't have the right to kill every player you see just because you exist as a foot fighter. You have chosen to invest less and are therefore rewarded. Also not dying and not killing the enemy is not a loss. Good luck to any mounted group holding down any strategic point in game vs a foot group. Here are some examples where the foot group will win every time; keep seiges, mountain fights, forest, caves, dungeons. Every place that actually matters the foot group will in. Steel horse armor takes 30~ from a long bow. Horses only have around 300 health. You do the math on how that will turn out in a large fight with not even mentioning mages doing 80 through armor.