Do extra horses in inventory increase speed?

[rolypoly]

If I carry a lot of heavy trade goods, will having extra horses in my inventory increase my speed?

[_FETT_]

i beleive it does, it does os in a the ACOK mod 2.o i am currently playing . they act as pack animals, may not work for native but i think it should

[Woder]

Not on native Im pretty sure. If you want more speed then increase your pathfinding

[rolypoly]

Well actually I'm playing Brytenwalda. Any idea if it works for that?
And also, does it matter what speed of the horse?

[Tuidjy]

Horses in inventory counteract heavy trade goods. They do not increase your speed if there are no trade goods to slow you down in the first place.

The quality of the horses does not matter.

To move faster, in no specific order:
- Have a small party.
- Have high morale.
- Have a good path-finding skill.
- Have troops that are either mounted or have really high athletics
- Have companions either mounted or with really high athletics
- Compensate any trade goods in your inventory with extra horses
- Choose a path that stays away from bad terrain like forest
- Move in daylight

[rolypoly]

Oh that's good to know. Are there diminishing returns in regards to counteracting the heavy trade goods? What's the amount of packhorses I should use before it becomes not worth the inventory space to get more?

[Tuidjy]

Frankly, I do not know exactly. Once upon the time, I did some testing, and posted in on this board, but it was in Gekokujo. Let me see if I can dig it out...

Here

Since that time, I no longer keep extra horses in my inventory, except for remounts if mine gets lamed, or when I am making trading runs.

Of course, the above may apply only to Gekokujo. But if you do any testing, please let us know the results.

[rolypoly]

Well, I haven't noted down any exact figures in terms of amount of weight I was carrying, but playing Britenwalda I had a full inventory of Silver and Minerals which weigh 50 each (not sure how much exactly, like I said), and 6-9 extra horses. I was moving at a speed of 6.8 over land in day. I then sold one horse and the speed decreased to 6.7. Another horse, and it was 6.6. However, the jump for the next horse went from 6.6 to 6.4, so there does seem to be a curve to it.

I also noticed that there was a bigger jump in speed increase when having an extra horse in the inventory compared to having an extra mounted companion. That is to say I had 7 unmounted companions, and keeping a horse in my inventory gave better speed than giving that horse to one of the companions.

Maybe I'll do some real testing in native warband some time, but this info had already answered my original question, so no promises :)