traveling speed

[drokens]

I have a group of all calvalry mainly for only one reason. And that is that having infantry in the group makes everything too slow. You can't really catch anything and it is just too irritating. I even have pathfinding up to five and I won't be able to get higher for a while. Does anybody know anyways to increase the speed of a party with infantry. Maybe even all foot soldeirs.

 

[agoden]

Wear light armor, buy up to 5 horses for in your inventory.. Cant think of anything else.

 

[G36E]

Increase your pathfinding skill.

 

[agoden]

He said he had it up to 5 and couldn't get it higher for a while :/

 

[G36E]

That really is the only way you can up your travelling speed by any significant degree. A couple of horses might help, but only if you carry lots of stuff around with you. There's actually been an extensive study here. It's a bit dated, but still helpful.

 

[Ludial]

make sure that all units in your company are top tier. the difference between a company of skirmishers and a company of marksmen of the same size is pretty noticeable.
make sure you fight(and win) all the time - this way the perpetually excellent morale will ensure higher traveling speed.
don`t take heavy foods in your inventory, nor lug more food then you need unless you`re going to siege or are off to sell the food. if your morale is always at max because of applying the previous point, you don`t need the bonuses from food. So, if you can find enough, always have honey - lightest of all foods and highest base morale bonus besides beef.

this is how I keep my own company faster than anybody but the Khergits

 

[CountVlad]

And this is how I always seem to get caught by bandits, etc. I don't pay attention to these things! lol. The more I read these forums, the more I realise just how much depth this game has.
Does your athletics skill affect your map speed if you don't have a horse? I'm playing a Nord at the moment, which makes it a little difficult to run away.

 

[Ludial]

And this is how I always seem to get caught by bandits, etc. I don't pay attention to these things! lol. The more I read these forums, the more I realise just how much depth this game has.
Does your athletics skill affect your map speed if you don't have a horse? I'm playing a Nord at the moment, which makes it a little difficult to run away.

not athletics, I don`t think so. That affects only battle instances. Map speed is affected by aforementioned things, plus pathfinding and percentage of cavalry.

 

[Ku Aborough]

That really is the only way you can up your travelling speed by any significant degree. A couple of horses might help, but only if you carry lots of stuff around with you. There's actually been an extensive study here. It's a bit dated, but still helpful.

I read up on that 'study' but he recommends "not carrying food", which is sensible as it cuts carry weight, I find its also a good way to cut party size however...

3 days later following that dudes advice:

"3 Khergit Skirmishers, 1 Swadian Footman, 2 Mercenary Cavalry and 3 Nord Huscarls have left the party"

oh is that because when I have 200+ guys following they tend to get grumpy when there's no food?

Its a nice little waste of his time to do us the favour of trying all that out, but effectively pointless. the fact is this, in general I accept a daytime travel speed of between 4.7 up to 6.0. The 4.7 (or around that) is when under load, and currently I'm playing a dedicated trader, sure I'd love to whizz from city to city at 12.0 speed, but that's not how it goes, even when I played a pure Nord force I still achieved speeds of around 5.8, and in fact noticed that the all foot force didn't slow as much over night, allowing me some crafty 'catch em at night' assaults (angry AND tired Huscarls!  )

If you want max speed though and thats all you care for, use nothing other than Khergit lancers and get yourself a Spirited Courser eat nothing but fish (as was stated, its light) pimp out your own and your party companions Pathfinding and have 3 horses in your inventory. I'd guess such a force of around 100 men in size would move at around 7.0 ~ 8.0

 

[AlienKnight]

But actually, what is your speed?

 

[ddrake]

Actually if you want to be fast the best way is to keep party limited to companions only.
With 11 of them my speed is around 8.4 when inventory is empty and around 7+ when inventory (large one) is full.
Pathfinding at 8.
You and your companions should be able to either avoid big lord parties you think you cannot handle and smash down smaller parties and bandits to get loot and morale increase, although fighting bandits hardly ever gives you morale increase for some crazy reason only the developers know 

Of course if you are out to siege someone that is a different story...

 

[Ludial]

eat nothing but fish (as was stated, its light)

actually, fish is among the heavier foods(15). only things heavier than it are at 20(cabbages, bread, beef), and honey(at 5 and with base morale bonus of 10) is the lightest and best of all. Only problem is to find enough, but for an all-companion band that shouldn`t be hard.

 

[Ku Aborough]

eat nothing but fish (as was stated, its light)

actually, fish is among the heavier foods(15). only things heavier than it are at 20(cabbages, bread, beef), and honey(at 5 and with base morale bonus of 10) is the lightest and best of all. Only problem is to find enough, but for an all-companion band that shouldn`t be hard.

honey comes in units of 30's, fish in 50's sure honey is lighter and has a better moral boost, but fish or dried meat lasts longer, costs less and has a fair moral boost.

and for sake of information with about 50 troops I carry around 100 units food (whatever type...) 100 units being 2 lots of 50 (takes up 2 inventory spaces) with 200 troops i found that no less than 250 or 300 units would suffice for even the shortest of journeys.

Actually if you want to be fast the best way is to keep party limited to companions only.
With 11 of them my speed is around 8.4 when inventory is empty and around 7+ when inventory (large one) is full.
Pathfinding at 8.
You and your companions should be able to either avoid big lord parties you think you cannot handle and smash down smaller parties and bandits to get loot and morale increase, although fighting bandits hardly ever gives you morale increase for some crazy reason only the developers know 

Of course if you are out to siege someone that is a different story...

Cant say I've deliberately never had a decent size war-band. doesn't really make sense in later game (700 days or more) when enemy war-bands can consist of 2000~3000 troops, I cant say I like the idea of running away all the time. as you say at the end, when it comes to sieges (or even a decent fight) the idea of maintaining only the minimum of troops is quite nonsensical.

 

[ddrake]

Actually if you want to be fast the best way is to keep party limited to companions only.
With 11 of them my speed is around 8.4 when inventory is empty and around 7+ when inventory (large one) is full.
Pathfinding at 8.
You and your companions should be able to either avoid big lord parties you think you cannot handle and smash down smaller parties and bandits to get loot and morale increase, although fighting bandits hardly ever gives you morale increase for some crazy reason only the developers know 

Of course if you are out to siege someone that is a different story...

Cant say I've deliberately never had a decent size war-band. doesn't really make sense in later game (700 days or more) when enemy war-bands can consist of 2000~3000 troops, I cant say I like the idea of running away all the time. as you say at the end, when it comes to sieges (or even a decent fight) the idea of maintaining only the minimum of troops is quite nonsensical.

The premise is "if you want to be fast". You don't need to be all the time. If you are at peace and commercing stuff around Calradia travelling fast may be a good choice.
Plus being faster doesn't necessarily mean always running away. It's more outmanouvering the enemy. Making it split it's forces and fight on the terrain you choose.
With 11 companions on horses I have no problems at all in dealing with 100+ parties considering that often most of enemy units are low tier.
Fighting against 100 Khergit Lancers deserters is more of a challenge. Doable though I think. We recently beated up 80 so...
Beside you obviously have the bulk of your forces garrisoned away in some town or castle. I prefer to do battles with an army on my own rather than do superman in action. But sometimes you just want to be fast.