horse selecting while upgrade to cavalry...

[Včelí medvídek]

Noted troops always grab msot expensive horse available... anything I can do to prevent this and force them use worse horses?

[OldGamer]

nope, they pick the best horse.

my tip would be just to ride around picking up cheap horses at horse villages.

I typically buy them in Khuzait/Aeseri land and sell some in Vlandia (if trading).

But yeah any horses are good, and frankly they are cheap if you have an economy behind it.

[Recon]

Keep in mind, just picking up the cheap horses will only upgrade them so far. Higher upgrades for cavalry require warhorses.

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

When they take the tournament horses before you have the riding skill needed is annoying. The only thing to do is get a companion with high riding skill to look after them for you.

[DabaDOO]

If you own a city, stack your upgrades, stash your valuable horses into city vault, upgrade cavalry, take horses back. Other than that, my solution is to buy the cheapest horses in bulk.

[Wh1teReaper]

So does it matter which horse you use stat wise like if I use a cheap horse with crappy stats to upgrade a unit is it gonna have a crappy horse or if I use a better hose will it have better stats once upgraded???

[Leigh]

To be honest I feel that the Cav upgrading is pretty dumb, was far better in Warband.

I feel it should be higher cost, but they get their own horse. At least that way they will all have the same horse stats.

[Ta110n]

Originally posted by Wh1teReaper:

So does it matter which horse you use stat wise like if I use a cheap horse with crappy stats to upgrade a unit is it gonna have a crappy horse or if I use a better hose will it have better stats once upgraded???

I'm pretty sure it doesnt matter I hope so cos
I just keep the lame horses that I capture and use them for upgrading :P

[Wh1teReaper]

Originally posted by Ta110n:

Originally posted by Wh1teReaper:

So does it matter which horse you use stat wise like if I use a cheap horse with crappy stats to upgrade a unit is it gonna have a crappy horse or if I use a better hose will it have better stats once upgraded???

I'm pretty sure it doesnt matter I hope so cos
I just keep the lame horses that I capture and use them for upgrading :P

Thats what I have been doing keeping horses and hoping the stats from the horse didnt make a crappy unit.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

If you're not adverse to mods:

https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/1660

Otherwise, store your important horses in a city you own until you can use them.

[flyingscot1066]

When I tick the "do not use" radio button the troops don't use them for upgrades.

[Gentleman Bird]

Originally posted by Jonathan J. O'Neill:

If you're not adverse to mods:

https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/1660

Otherwise, store your important horses in a city you own until you can use them.

This mod caused my game to crash when upgrading cavalry units, so I'd be careful about this.

[CellNav]

Originally posted by flyingscot1066:

When I tick the "do not use" radio button the troops don't use them for upgrades.

That does work, and the button he speaks of is the LOCK, however ....

As long as you have "cheap" horses UNLOCKED, it won't use the LOCKED horses, and as soon as the UNLOCKED horses runs out, the game will then use the LOCKED horses.

The problem is clear, the mechanic shouldn't use locked horses. I just tested this using cheap lame war horses and locked the expensive ones ... It used the lame horses which is cool but frankly that is lame ... :P

[flyingscot1066]

Originally posted by CellNav:

Originally posted by flyingscot1066:

When I tick the "do not use" radio button the troops don't use them for upgrades.

That does work, and the button he speaks of is the LOCK, however ....

As long as you have "cheap" horses UNLOCKED, it won't use the LOCKED horses, and as soon as the UNLOCKED horses runs out, the game will then use the LOCKED horses.

The problem is clear, the mechanic shouldn't use locked horses. I just tested this using cheap lame war horses and locked the expensive ones ... It used the lame horses which is cool but frankly that is lame ... :P

Yeah, lock button, that's the word I was looking for!
Is there an exception for the named mounts? I had 2 of the named horses and the named camel and my troops never touched them.

[Wh1teReaper]

Still though do the higher end horses make for better stats instead of using a lower end horse

[FiddyTrickPony]

Originally posted by Wh1teReaper:

Still though do the higher end horses make for better stats instead of using a lower end horse

Nope. It's the 'category' of horse that matters. So a 'horse' is required at lower tiers, and a 'Warhorse' is needed for higher tier, ect. The stat difference between mounts in the same category have no difference to upgraded units. (ie, a Steppe horse is the same as a desert horse when upgrading -- so cheaper is better).

Like someone said above, I usually stock up on steppe horses pretty early, can pick them up between 50-100 denars each in some khuzait areas.