Mount Actions

For ease of play, mounts and their riders act simultaneously.

I'd play it that if a mount takes no action while its rider is acting (even if the rider isn't on the mount at the time), the mount loses that action.

If I run 20 ft to my mount and leap on, I've used a move action and so has my mount, even though it just stood there. It *could* have done something then, though, if it was trained to do so and had previously received an order. For example, if I call my horse in round 1, and then move toward it in round 2, then while I am taking a move action, it can too (hopefully letting us meet sooner).

These actions don't necessarily need to be resolved together, if it's easier from a play perspective not to. For instance, if I am 20 ft from my mount, and I use a move action to order it to come to me, then I take a swing at an enemy near me, it is perfectly OK to resolve my attack and then physically move the horse on the mapsheet.