Men Women Adult Road Cycling Safety Helmet MTB Mountain Bike/Bicycle. The influence of athletics/riding skill is why more elite armies move faster than lower level ones, as it applies to troops as well. A fine, decorative map of the Irish province of Munster, located in the southwest. And if their athletics skill is significantly above their riding skill, adding a horse to a pc or companion will actually slow the party map speed (generally athletics of 3 or 4 above riding means map speed will be faster on foot). One further note, since you are chasing faster map speed: if alone or in small party, pathfinding is less important to map speed than athletics skill (if on foot) or riding (if mounted). One of the most important goals you need to achieve in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is to make sure that your squad (army) is moving around the map as. A lame sumpter horse has the same effect as a champion warhorse. Type of horse does not matter at all, nor does being lame or swaybacked. Commonly repeated rules like “6 horses is best” are not quite right, and in practice you’d generally have to be loaded down with heavy trade goods in a small party for the 5th or 6th horse to be helpful.

Since those two effects run in opposite directions, the optimal number of horses is largely a function of how much weight you carry (and how many troops are in your army, as they mitigate weight as well). Horses are also themselves items, and their presence in the inventory has a slight effect of slowing you down. On the overland map (with all the cities etc.) I see parties with speeds much higher than mine (like the. In Warband, horses decrease the extent to which high inventory weight slows you down. I just bought Mount & Blade off steam yesterday.

Mount and blade map speed