Have the horses been modified? They seem slower and defensively weaker. I have a heavy horse and he gets hit with a couple of rocks and a knife wound from a low level fighter and goes down, just about every battle. I can run as fast as my lame horse. I'd just get another each time it went lame but the price is way to high. instead of 4000 to 15000 for a horse or pony, it should be 400 to 1500.
Another question I have is how do get my relation with Christians better without having to convert? I wasted a monastery to get the book early in the story, then needing good relations with Denmark Lords for the assembly vote, I wasted two more monasteries. I haven't attacked a monastery in over a year game time and still Christians talk ****e about me relentlessly. I might as well be at war with everyone without a war even being declared.