Question on pack horses

[Lief Siddhe]

Concerning the items in your inventory: it's not the number of items, it's the weight. You can have an inventory full of looted equipment and it practically won't slow you down at all.

Iron and food and similar goods, however, will significantly influence your speed due to huge weight when you have multiple items.

 

[UnfortunateCrow]

Oh gods yes.  I picked up about 15 bars of iron for a trade run and watched my daytime speed drop to below 2!  This was with only about 20 soldiers too.

 

[Fradener]

So any definitive answers yet? Is it a ratio, or is there just an ideal number?

 

[godot]

I've just tried moving my 80-unit army between 2 castles a few times with around 8 inventory slots of food; 1st with 1 extra horse, 2nd with 2, 3rd with 3, and 4th with none.  Each time my party travelled at a steady speed of 5.5.  I'm quite sure that if I fill all inventory slots with Iron my speed will drop much more if I have fewer horses, but with a mostly empty inventory there appears to be no difference at all.

Pathfinding is the only skill I've found that affects map speed.  My Deshavi has 6 in PF and when her health is in the red after a battle the party moves a lot slower.  Morale helps map speed too.  I remember once chasing an army around with exactly the same speed until we happened to pass through a village where I bought some honey and butter.  The additional morale allowed me to catch them.