It's pretty much canonical - the description of the Rider occupation (HW 97-98) states unequivically: "Each rider is assigned to one of the steeds, ands is considered equipment of the steed, not the other way around."
Only once a rider has reached Knight level can he attempt to learn the Control Steed secret - and probably half or more fail, becoming even more a meat puppet for the steed while on its back.
So only a few of humans in the BHT are really "in control" during battle. The rest are merely support troops to keep the infantry off the tanks - err, hmm, ah, anyway.... In most confrontations, the narrator should remember that the Steed is probably in control, and the human is merely a "front" for it. In-game, probably no-one outside BHCounty knows about this, and assumes that the human speaks for the troop.
RR
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