How do you use the pony?

[MeGa]

The one you start with. Sry, being impatient, but after 3h played I still cant figure out how to use it or what to do with him XD only seena stable that allows me to recruit more of them. Any hint?

[Lastzro]

what do you want to do to this poor pony ?
if this is to send him to battle you will have to wait for him to level up (automatic process) and choose the "war pony" path ^^

[General Malaise]

Currently he's carrying stuff for you. You can buy horse shoes for him to allow you to travel faster, or saddle bags to carry more weight. If you don't use them as war ponies, they are passive weight carriers. The more you have, the less fatigue you have. As they level up, you get options to reduce fatigue even further, increase run speed, and run duration. You can buy them or capture them by attacking Merchants(which I didn't realise until yesterday).

I have a 15 man squad, and 15 Ponies. I only ever have to rest to get Valour Points. I can run at a very fast speed, and that will increase even more when 10 of them get to Lvl 8. The 5 I captured were Lvl 8 already.

..............so, that's Ponies for you. Get some more.

[General Malaise]

Also, an easy way to make money, is trade. Trade goods sell for a good deal more in towns you didn't buy them in.

A good ploy is to buy trade goods every time you go to town and they're available. When you've got a lot, and a trade mission is offered take it, and go sell your goods(you get Border Passes later in the game - but don't wait for them, just pay the 200 Krowns).

Early on you might need to capture enemies to get a bounty from the Prison. Later on, I just don't really bother. If you get a healthy balance, just buy trade goods every time they're available. You'll soon have a surplus to buy those lovely Skill Books, and Ability Books.

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Point being - Trade Goods are heavy. You need a good few Ponies to do this.

[MeGa]

Ohhh very interesting, thx for answers!!