Talk:Dark Horse/@comment-139.59.65.238-20180731070624

I remember reading actual CODE-PROGRAMING deep-level game numbers some where (apology for the forgetting of necessary citable substantiation here), definitively making undoubtable, the DLC War-Horse, first of all, and then, the Hungarian Half-Bred and this Dark Horse, in different ways, these three standing paramount, the "toughest," most resilient, player-effective horses in the game. No others come close, really, even the Kentucky S. and Am. St.bred.

The truthfully-related, unavoidable "plodding" of the Dark Horse is made up for by its other unique features, in my opinion. Any how, the game coding revealed those three are the absolute toughest, a subject recently brought up on this wiki as relating to the question of which horses, if any, can survive a direct cougar attack - well, those three only.

Surprisingly, the coding of the game has the Kentucky Saddler as barely above a good-quality two-star horse basically and the much-beloved Am. Standardbred, while of course respectable and superior comparatively, measured not significantly better. Its slightly superior speed is a false illusionary superiority if the horse is viewed holistically.

The only three horses truly TOUGH are the Warhorse, Dark Horse and Hungarian Half-bred. I shall find the substantiating material in time ideally... Objectively, the most elite is the War-Horse, magnitudes of order above the rest; the rest is more subjective: the Hungarian is in my mind probably second in light of its "equiposed" qualities, and then the Dark Horse; American Standardbred; Kentucky Saddler following in descending order... The Quarter Horses, Pintos and others are all objectively higher-grade comparatitvely if one digs deep enough...

Very surprisingly, the programming and programmers did create super-subtilized differences between the two-star "average" breeds: the code numbers showed e.g. the Dutch Warmblood practically equal to three-star horses in speed; the Lusitano, and Tobiano Pinto, both have highly efficient stamina rate; the Standardbred Pinto has both excellent stamina and speed; etc...

I'll find the data some time...