Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Cavalry


Light cav is faster in the game. In the files they are listed as "light_horse". These are typically skirmisher type cavalry with javelins are bows.

Med. cav is an "average" speed cav. riging "medium_horse". I believe "heavy_horse" is slightly slower. There may be fatigue effects as well. Higher end cavalry ride heavier horses and have higher stats. I'm not sure that the mount itself has much effect on the performance other than the aforementioned speed.

There are differences in "mass" listed, but I'm not sure how "mass" is being used by the game. The difference is very small for light vs. med/heavy.
Light horses are the only ones that have a different speed, being faster than medium, heavy and cataphract horses. While the 3 heavier mounts maybe were intended to have different speeds, they all use the same skeleton model and thus move the same.

I've played custom battles with one of each type of mount and ran 'races' back & forth acorss the field. The light cavalry always wins, while the others are equal, with results being random based based upon the slight variations when a unit obeys orders and starts running. As well as the speed being the same among the 3 heavies, I saw no difference in their fatigue rate, something that makes even less sense with cataphracts.