Too fast too coward. 20> Looters

[UnholyDentist]

It takes several days to chase down and catch small numbered looter/raider parties, it's just annoying and pointless. I'm sure that peasants weren't supposed to be athletic prodigies and dope also didn't exist in medieval era, so please slow them down by about 30% if possible on map.

[Condasoft]

You just need more horses in your inventory and to optimise your weight.

[UnholyDentist]

Originally posted by ScouseShoota:

You just need more horses in your inventory and to optimise your weight.

I got lot of mules and more horses than party members, my weight is 565/1510 right now, 1.1 campaign. Catching those lowlife bastards is just not worth it, way too fast.

[Swordmouse]

More horse, cavalry, and mules/sumpters to haul your loot so you don't get a movement penalty.

Click the arrow in the bottom right and hover over the speed icon to see all your modifiers.

There's no reason why 100+ troops can't move at 6.0+, even if you're not focusing on cavalry.

Large groups of looters are slow if you're doing what you should for yourself, I promise.

[Greldinart]

you need 1horse/troop for get 6+ speed. not enough for steppesbandits, barely enough for carvan, but largely enough for looters forest sea and deserts raiders.

[Yew Nough]

Monitor your characters speed on the map, and check the speed of the looter you're about to chase. If you're faster, jump'em. If not, you're gonna have to chase him into a corner (if you're lucky).

Also, anything that's not a horse adds weight to your inventory, so be sure to lighten your inventory every chance you get to keep your speed up.

...and depending on your riding or athletic stats, you may want to ride a horse or 'run' on the main map accordingly.

[ferrata_vi]

Originally posted by UnholyDentist:

Originally posted by ScouseShoota:

You just need more horses in your inventory and to optimise your weight.

I got lot of mules and more horses than party members, my weight is 565/1510 right now, 1.1 campaign. Catching those lowlife bastards is just not worth it, way too fast.

Mules aren't horses. Mules and Sumpter horses are pack animals.

Desert Horses, Steppe Horses, Battanian Ponies, Midland Palfries, Saddle Horses.

Those are all horses that your footmen can ride.

If you have as many horses as you do footmen, you should be pulling 5.75 -6.00 movement.

[Trip]

Also, too MANY horse can result in a 'herd penelty' if you dont have enough troops to manage them.

Prisoners slow you down.
Wounded slow you down.

On the bottom right where it lists food and influence and such is another bottun that will increase the size of that window to give you more info.

One of these info bits is your movement speed, hover the icon over it to get a breakdown of your movement speed bonuses and penalties.

But yeah, chasing down looters for days is silly. Still, they ARE literally running for their very lives from you so there is that motivation for them to run like the devil is chasing them ;)

[GrandMajora]

A time period where modern technology and conveniences would have been interpreted as some form of magic?

I imagine that the peasant folk were getting quite a lot of exercise back then. What with the primitive technology, and need for hard, manual labor in order to get anything accomplished.

[Swirler]

Bear in mind that larger parties of looters will move slower and smaller groups will move faster.

If you have a large enough army you don't need to bother chasing down less than 10 looters unless you're really really bored.

Originally posted by UnholyDentist:

Originally posted by ScouseShoota:

You just need more horses in your inventory and to optimise your weight.

I got lot of mules and more horses than party members, my weight is 565/1510 right now, 1.1 campaign. Catching those lowlife bastards is just not worth it, way too fast.

Mules do not increase your party speed. There's a little icon underneath each horse type that shows if they're for use as "pack animal" or "horse" and "warhorse".

"pack animal" like work horse, sumpter horse, mule. Are all used to increase your total carry capacity. They will not increase your move speed on the world map.
"horse" will help increase speed on the world map until all your footmen have 1 horse each.
(Cavalry don't need an extra horse for that, which is why Khuzait armies move really fast and steppe bandits are impossible to catch).
They are also needed to upgrade raw footmen into the next level of horsemen, if you don't have any "horse" type horses then you won't be able to upgrade them. There's usually a small tooltip that explains this when you hover over the upgrade.
"warhorse" is the highest tier of upgrade for your elite cavalry, they are the most expensive type.
They will increase your movespeed on the world map but until you're quite rich you probably won't be able to mass many of them.

[UnholyDentist]

Originally posted by Trip:

Also, too MANY horse can result in a 'herd penelty' if you dont have enough troops to manage them.

Prisoners slow you down.
Wounded slow you down.

On the bottom right where it lists food and influence and such is another bottun that will increase the size of that window to give you more info.

One of these info bits is your movement speed, hover the icon over it to get a breakdown of your movement speed bonuses and penalties.

But yeah, chasing down looters for days is silly. Still, they ARE literally running for their very lives from you so there is that motivation for them to run like the devil is chasing them ;)

I was full on prisoners and some wounded soldiers, it did help once I got rid of those.