Would it even be feasible to ride a centaur...

Would it even be feasible to ride a centaur? I feel that having a human torso right in front of you would make it hard to see or fight.

Think of it like two people riding a motorbike except one of the is the motorbike. It's not the best setup but it works.

Also centaur rider would probably lean towards ranged combat rather than melee.

If the object in front of you was just a lump of whatever then yes it would be hard to fight with it in the way. But that Torso fights as well, so you dont have to worry about that. As long as your not retard and try to make the centaur charge head on into a pike wall, something that it wont have any problems NOT doing unlike horses whom are stupid and panic near enemy soldiers, or attempting to give them lance so that they bend/break their spines, having a second fighters in one mass is actually not that bad of an idea.

So it'd be sort of like how crossbowmen at one point in history had a person to carry a pavise while the reloaded? That could work.

But it would require a serious level of coordination between the centaur and the rider, especially since they'd probably have to do stuff like this while moving.

>But it would require a serious level of coordination between the centaur and the rider, especially since they'd probably have to do stuff like this while moving.
They are both intelligent beings, yes? Im pretty sure that its not THAT hard to train riders to fight/aid in the centaur's fighting from horseback. I mean NO its not gonna be the BESTEST THING EVAR!!!111 but i could see it being a sizeable advantage if say your were a nomadic tribe.

I would guess you could use them as a heavy weapons platform. Then again it all depends on the breed of centaur. A workhorse vs a pony...
If you have a large work horse like in my pic then you can probably put a heavy weapon on him/her. Like a minigun, .50 cal, rocket launcher, recoil less rifle etc.

Question would be why though, would those weapons be better stationary vs mobile?

Also under what setting? Fantasy/Medieval, Modern? Sci-Fi?

As with the bike comment, what weapon would you SERIOUSLY put on a bike and drive into combat? Why not use a bike?

So to answer my own question a centaur in any setting would probably work well for ranged combat in rugged terrain.
In fantasy settings they would work in both ranged and mele in the same way cavalry worked, difference being the centaur could carry a weapon and shield themselves.

What the hell is pic related and why is Saber there?

I admit I'm not a /k/ browser, but common sense seems to dictate that you can be more accurate with ranged weapons while stationary. And often mounted missile troops would move around the enemy to avoid being shot at in return, and to attack from several angles to take advantage of their mobility. If a centaur is functioning as a shield bearer, they'd have to adjust where they're holding the shield, just as their rider would have to turn in the saddle. If they retreat, the rider is suddenly not defended from the rear, and they probably can't swing a weapon in the same direction if they're caught in melee, since they'd want to avoid hitting each other.

Medieval fantasy seems to generally be where most people put centaurs. In a modern or sci-fi setting, traditional cavalry has grown to be more or less obsolete...even with the rough terrain argument, that would probably hamper a centaur, especially in urban or jungle fighting. And besides, how accurately could a centaur aim a rifle or a rocket launcher while running? A minigun or machine gun might work, just because weight of fire over accuracy, they're bound to hit something.

It's /d/ territory, you don't want to know

Here's another of the sfw ones. Really wish Mikoyan would do more of these.

There is also this one.

They seem to be using large calibre recoil less rifles. Then again the setting seems to be WW2 ish judging from the rifle the blond is carrying.

Here is a more modern setting.
Horses can carry allot of weight so I think large caliber rapid fire weapons could work.
Carry the large ammo drum/pack on the back, would need a person to help strap it on etc but a rider wouldn't be needed in combat other than to help with ammo feed malfunctions and such.

Alright, now I'm to curious for my own good. How much furry shit am I in for?

Mongolian horse archery would only have been more devastating if the horse also shoot at people.

Not exactly furry, more like horse chicks with dicks.

Hmm, centaurs count as furry?

I regret everything

Here is a pic from the comic Centaur Worries.
In medieval settings they would work better than regular cavalry due to being smarter and being able to fight as well.

Modern settings they would work for settings where you actually use horses, like in pic for riot control.

Modern military is questionable but I think it would actually work as they could get heavy weapons where you normally couldn't but they'd be pretty useless in urban combat as in house to house fighting.

Oh noes! My one weakness?! STAIRS!!

So just a light machine gun? And if the rider isn't necessary, why bring them along instead of making use of them as infantry?

Because getting a humanoid onto the centaur is the very point of the exercise, the rest is just trying to justify it.

Humans carry light machine guns into combat all the time, afaik every group has at least one person with a SAW, 249 or whatever light machine guns are called nowdays.

A centaur could carry something bigger, I'd guess any weapon you'd put on a LAV (Light Armour Vehicle) such as .50cal, miniguns, automatic grenade launchers and such.

On the other hand I guess you could use the centaur as a mobile cover mover, like carrying a large ballistic shield to cover the rider who'd use a machine gun of some sort. This seems really unpractical though.

First pic I posted has the girl reloading the gun which I would assume to be a recoil less rifle as it looks more like a rifle than a rocket launcher.
Are recoil less rifles even used in modern military? or have they simply been replaced by missile weapons?

Mobile infantry. Dragoons riding with cavalry.

How has it been determined that a centaur with a lance would break their spine? A human with a couched lance takes just as much force and with stirrups and a military saddle most of that force is going to be on the spine. And why assume that a centaur's spine wouldn't be more flexible and robust than a humans? I'd expect the torso to have the same range of motion that a horse's head has and it needs to hold at least as much weight.

And even if for some reason a centaur couldn't take as much force as a human why wouldn't they just use a lighter lance, charge slower or simply not couch it?

Is that a PK or a DShK?

No idea what that even means...

So I assume /d/ is the destination for centaur porn, even when lacking futa?

it looks like m2

I was thinking of Centaur Worries, too, the centaurs were used as mounts but in a slave capacity. I recall one of th ehistory chapters having a page about it where the centaur's upper half was bound in an armor shell so it couldn't move its arms or upper body at all.

Looks like an M2 with a Minimi style ammo box.

I don't think a guy in the back could be of much use in fight, maybe helf hold this spear thing riders use? There's not much space.

In Centaur Worries it is a hate crime to ride a centaur.

>you will never have a cavalry mate you have to bond with like your average horse
>you'll never have to eat, sleep, bath, and generally live together to make sure you're both absolutely on the same mental page
>you'll never have a long day on the battlefield being a spotter for your highly mobile artillery partner
>you'll never storm the trenches in sick and twisted cavalry charge on the back of your heavily armored dual wielding heavy trench shotgun mate covering her flank and rears as you make sure one trenchgun is always loaded and i standby
>you'll never have a comical moment of storming no mans land trying to carry your stranded cavalry mate in the middle of the night
>you'll never be a quick arrival medic with your ambulance mate, having to patch up wounded soldiers in the back of your mate driven cart on the way back to the medical tent
>you'll never get to help your mate out of their uniform after a long hard day of work and hell
>you'll never get to help your mate and be helped by your mate reach dirt and grime in area's neither of you can reach on your own
>you'll never get to bed down in the field as your mate lets you use her like a warm futon against the cold night
>you'll never get to comfort and insulate each other from the horrors of war
>you'll never retire after the war to a nice quiet cottage in the countryside and have a nice bundle of satyresque children
>you'll never be one of the few pairs not crying over a lost comrade at the memorial
>you'll never get to see the new youth pairing up for the next war so naive and oblivious to the hell they're going to see
>you'll never wish your satyr sons and daughters good luck in officer school (except for that one no one mentions, you know the one i mean.) while you and your mate are relaxing after a hard day on the farm watching the sunset leading into stargazing

The rider could ride backwards - it's not like he has to control the centaur. They'd make fantastic skirmishers.

No, you can post it on /h/. Lewd (no porn or men involved) centaurs and monster girls can be found on /e/. /d/ is a shithole.

>you'll never have the awkward moment when you find out not only can a human get chlamydia from a centaur but a human can give a centaur chlamydia
>you'll never have that awkward moment when you have to explain to your mate how and when you got chlamydia especially when you specifically told her you swore you and your buddies just went out drinking and gambling on your last leave and that it was totally natural you smelled like another mare off your buddy's jacket you borrowed

>You will never leave behind your sick twisted fetishes and habbits to rejoin society as a functioning, but scarred individual.

Chicks dig scars, user. Everyone knows that.

especially mental scars dimwit

>you will never doze in the saddle while letting the centaur keep walking

Especially the ones they made themselves.
Mental or physical, either goes.

Never doubt man's capacity to fuck anything, user.

>being this insecure
Just because you aren't man enough to please a centaur doesn't mean its not hot, user.

>They seem to be using large calibre recoil less rifles.
Dude. No. Just no.

At least learn the definition of recoilless rifle before you try to drop it like it's hot.

If it was a recoilless rifle it would injure the rider every time.

Javelins?

Then wtf is it?

And how would it injure the rider?
You mean the centaur would rock back so hard as to hit the rider? I would assume a centaur would be allot more steady and sturdy to fire a recoil less rifle.

You have to bend forwards quite allot when firing those things but if you'd have 4 legs that shouldn't be as big a problem?

nice strawman

Fucking horses is not ok,
stop putting all your points in animal husbandry and plague innocent DMs

A centaur is not a horse...

Do you even understand the concept of a recoilless rifle? Or back blast? What about concussive forces or third degree burns?

I really like the idea of a society in which Humans and Centaurs have lived together so long that they are essentially one culture.

A centaurs horse, user.

...

it was of the non cute female slave veriety though, they where all shaved men if I recall.

I want to see cute secret BDSM relationships between a centaur and her owner.

Yes, it's not ok for you. And?

and humans have a 99% similarity at the gene level with apes, but it's still bestiality.

I don't see how this is related to discussion

Apes aren't sentient or capable of consent.

but that's wrong.

>/d/
>Furry
I am disappointed, Veeky Forums

Wow, you really are retarded...
So you are telling me the rider couldn't just lean up against the back of the centaur to steady him/her when the shot is taken?

there's a thin line between animal husbandry and bestiality...

>/d/ is a shithole
Even worse
What happened to our beautiful relationship, Veeky Forums
What happened.

Monster girl threads died. There was no point to stay in the realm of the dick anymore.

>all those military centaur pics, none of them are archers since they fucking spawned from the latino/hellenic soldiers fighting against the nomadic tribes of horse archers
well shit
not him but here is a thing for you /d/ cancer, you fuck the part that has the genitalia so the not human part

Come back
Through dick, unity

Legs back the fuck up here before were start getting into who is or isn't a retard here.

Do you even understand WHAT a recoilless rifle is? And don't just say yes or no i want you to actually explain it because you seem to be missing some fundamental information here.

No, I'm not gay

>not being able to get centaur off just by heavy petting on the human part

...

It doesn't matter what i'm fucking. If its attached to something sentient and capable of consent its not bestiality.

>>flying over it in a 4 wheeler at 200mph
this always kills me.

>Implying liking dick somehow makes you gay

But you have a dick, don't you ?
You can't escape the realm of the dicks.

I fail to see the problem as long as I can cuddle with the human part afterwards

It does, user in the closet

It's a part of me in the shape of a penis so it's different

Looking back autocorrect has been mangling half my posts. Fuck.

only america has an irrational fear of faggotry so ingrained that men start to hate their own genitals.

But girls can have dicks too, user.

We're gerring kinda far away from the subject

feminism is also an american thing...

Heck, if a man refused to fuck a centaur it'd probably be a hate crime...

What about women? /d/ would be full of "Your women prefer big hard centaur dick, you mad?!"

That's what through dick unity means
You can't help but love the dick, whether it be yours or another's
the /d/ way is the only way
Come back to us, Veeky Forums
/d/ is nothing like that

And this is why people stopped going to /d/. You came for monster girls, bondage and tentacles but saw crowd of homosexuals in denial who can't enjoy regular lesbian couplings and preach closeted faggotry.

Nope, you are not convincing at all

Look at it this way user. If you had a choice would you rather have one or two dicks? i'm betting 2. Therefore you in fact want more dick.
How about porn? Do you like porn with a guy with a tiny dick? Or a big one? I'm betting you'd rather get off on watching tiny tammy getting wrecked by beercan dick magnus. Therefore you like big dicks.
again lets use porno for this. Do you want porn where the dick and male is entirely censored or would you actually like to see action take place? I'm gonna guess you wanna see all actors in full action. You now want to see dick.

Ergo you want to see more big dicks.

So you saying it wouldn't be possible for a centaur to use a M18 recoilless rifle without seriously injuring him/herself and a person leaning up against his/her back would be seriously injured and receive 3rd degree burns despite the back of the weapon going past the rider?

I guess the weapon could be a 20-30mm cannon if that makes you happy.

You're just mad that you're not a cute girl with a dick.

I don't think he does understand how recoiless rifles work.

>If you had a choice would you rather have one or two dicks? i'm betting 2. Therefore you in fact want more dick.
You made a quick leap of logic

Chicks with dicks don't exist... It's "Dudes with boobs" that's the correct terminology...

Truly, for /d/ and Veeky Forums to part ways like this, over things as silly on Veeky Forums as sexual insecurity, is a sad thing
Those are the end times indeed
Magnificient.

this
How narrow-minded

No. I wonder if you enjoy 50 shades of your fetish on half-dead board.

Oh wait, I'm taking about /b/, whatever the Random board is...

Every single day there are threads about white sluts preferring black cock.

>If you had a choice would you rather have one or two dicks?
One
>Do you like porn with a guy with a tiny dick? Or a big one?
I prefer porn with no dicks at all

I'm not convinced at all to be honest.

Centaur shooter would just have to pivot her torso 45 degrees before shooting. Then just have clothing on horse bits to prevent burns.

>closet meme

It's an entire genre of porn that can fill up an entire harddrive. People like what they like. On the web no one but you would know that you go to /y/ or /hm/ so there's really no reason not to just go to those boards if you're closeted.

>People like what they like
They do. I don't see why you can't enjoy it and be closeted [insert title] at the same time.

It wouldn't harm the centaur the whole "recoilless" part the issue is back blast. It would fuck up any rider with concussive force alone. you want the tubes ending at least 3 feet away because while most of the force is aimed backwards in a cone beyond the container that is the tube the force can propagate outwards in all directions. At the least it injuries the riding with concussive force and burns and burns the centaurs rump.
Speaking of which they'd have to always aim that bitch at a downward angle or the back blast would take chunks off their hindquarters.
Best bet would be to use 20-30mm rifles for the type shown above where their body seems to be beefy and thicker meaning large joints and bones that could handle that force. Make it a top loaded magazine with a longer priming lever so all reloading could be handled by support rider.
For the most part riders would also almost be support as firing at anything accurately without possibly nicking the mount is damn near impossible especially if evasive manuevers have to happen and why take the time to shout that out. You might be able to get away with riding backwards to avoid shooting your ride but that still suffers from you can't tell where the rides going since its entirely self driven and now can't see whats coming.
All in all either support rider who's gonna be vulnerable since armoring them puts serious weight on the centaurs spine which will hinder movement or wholly autonomous centaur no rider at all freeing that space to either save weight or carry shit.

Cont. Basically if you are past rifle you are fucked in different degrees. Different weapons have different cones of the backblast and in case of centaurs I can imagine it being narrow to prevent burns.

The fella riding the centaur helps a lot in steadying the weapon and reloading it.

Because the closeted homosexual bit implies they really don't like the rest of the futa and are using it as a cover up. To enjoy futa you need to have attraction to the female form (if genitals are the only thing that matters try fapping to Buck Angel a man with a cunt (FTM)) which at worst means you're bisexual.

This.