[Mivereous]

If treads stopped the knockback, people could double HT on the same turn. Or just be surrounded by a bunch of bully HT Arbs, doing this 150-200 per hit and stealing your milk money.

I imagine the tackle as something like



which, with the Arbalest's heavy force in mind, lifts the targets feet off the ground, nullifying Spiked Treads and prevents this.