Anyone knows the optimal number of horses to have?

[Comguitoz]

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[Lamiosa]

As many as you can get. I did not see any disadvantages of having horses and horses give you more carry weigth.

[jPRO93]

As many as you can find..

Horses in inventory should eat tho :P

[Han Yolo]

All of them.

[The Emperor Of Milfgaard]

having a lot of horses can reduce your movement speed. check it by clicking the arrow at the bottom right, there is a horse symbol you can hover over to see what makes up your speed. Herd is what you are looking for. I try to keep it at -0.1 max. Once I had so many horses it was on -0.25. Not good.

[SayneX]

Originally posted by Ser Comguitoz:

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I would like to know this also because you end up getting the speed debuff for herd with to many...

[🌄SimoN🌄]

i have about 5000 now, the sky is the limit rly

[Crono]

I have a herd movement penalty even though i only have horses as animals in my inventory.
do some horses give a penalty? the mules maybe (even thouh thy count as horses)?

[Maelos]

I know that the amount of units you have changes how many horses you can have before you get the 'herd' debuff to speed, but have no clue how many.

[Heruwulf]

One horse for every footman.

Edit: But I always keep a little more than that. When I get the herd debuff, I just sell some.

[Eadward]

Maybe not, but I think the best is have the same number of horses and infantry, like 50 horses and 50 infantry troops.
At last I use this metode and works fine.

[Muscarine]

Something between 1 to 1.5 per unit in your army, if you keep to many horses you get a herd debuff and start losing speed

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Originally posted by Chlodulf:

One horse for every footman.

This.
You will eventually get a Herd debuff for speed, so sell your excess horses or slaughter them.

[Comguitoz]

thanks everyone!

[kesat]

Originally posted by Hlaine:

Originally posted by Chlodulf:

One horse for every footman.

This.
You will eventually get a Herd debuff for speed, so sell your excess horses or slaughter them.

No, the herd debuff applies for Tier 1 Horses (mules, stumper horses, camels), not for T2+. I've 3x as much horses as i would need and have no debuff.

And just on a sidenote: since 1.0.4 you actually should have spare horses and war horses, because cavalry upgrades require them (iirc this wasn't the case before).

[Crono]

Cool, thx everyone!