been seeing some of you wondering about the horse speeds, so I just thought I'd enlighten you.

There are "Basic horses", "Ponies" and "Fast_ponies". The difference between these are speed.

Basic horses are very easy to spot on the battlefield: They're covered in armour/cloth or whatever (generals bodyguard, feudal knights, kataphracts, that sort of horses). These are the slowest types of horses.

Ponies are the medium speed ones. They are not covered in armour, so they're easy to spot as well. However it can be quite hard to separate them from the Fast_ponies becouse there's no obvious difference in looks between them. Examples of Ponies are Mailed knights, Mounted sergants, Hobilars, Siphantis (those turkish HA) and generally all mounts that does not have the "Fast moving" trait and are not covered in armour/cloth.

The last type is Fast_ponies. These are the fastest horses and are generally reserved for missile cavalry (the exeption beeing border horse and stradiots). These horses are marked with the "Fast moving" trait in the description, so if a horse archer does not have that trait, it is just a normal pony.

Hope I enlightened you