a while ago i saw a player start his tazia dismounted, in base with a pegusus. in his first turn he trampled her with another cavalry unit and for his second action he mounted her. why does this work? or, was this cheating?

i dont kno if u can trample ur own fig but who knows? I'd guess that he was wrong but you should ask somone more qualified -venomous

i know u can trample your own fig, that is an obvious intention of the proficiency. i want to know if u can start a rider unmounted like he did

No, you cannot field a mount without a rider, even if the rider is in base contact with the mount. The rider has to be ON the mount, otherwise it would be illegal to field the mount. You can field riders without mounts, but never mounts without riders.

What he could have done was:

Dismount Tazia, trample her, and mount next turn.

look guys this is pretty simple

1)dismount
2)move mount
3)DT Tazia & base her mount

next turn
1)mount, you can give the new unit another action after you mount(but it will get 2 action tokens)
look it up in the DR rulebook under mount/dismounting
goodluck & have fun

Here is another way to do this. Start out with another rider on her mount and her running along side. Move tazia out in front of the cavalry unit and then trample her , remembering to put the cav unit in base with her. Then next turn dismount the first rider and mount up tazia. Just remember this. You can only trample with a cavalry unit. You can't trample her with her own mount.

Also, you could dismount Tazia, then trample her with a second mount, then use your 3rd action to remount her.