Cavalry Speed: What's the difference?

[econ21]

Thanks, CBR and Dopp.

Putting your findings together:

There are three horse speeds:

Fast: 600 metres/minute. (14% faster than normal)
This covers fast ponies.
Includes Alans, jinettes, stradiots, border horse, albanian light cavalry, most horse archers, Skys, Vards

Normal: 525 metres/minute
This covers heavy horses and ponies. Basically all horses that are not "fast ponies" and don't have any armour.
Includes mailed knights, mercenary Frankish knights, demi-lancers, Latinkons, Byzantince cavalry, lancers, hobilars, Danish scouts, French mounted archers

Slow: 415 metres/minute (21% slower than normal)
This covers mailed, barded and armoured horses.
Includes feudal and Chivalric knights, gendarmes,Italian men-at-arms, kataphracts. Sipahis?


I wonder, is there anyway in the game to tell which horse speed your unit has? I am guessing the fast ponies say "fast" in the unit description? But I have not worked out how to tell if the unit is slow (is it just a matter of seeing if the horse is covered by something).

R'as al Ghul - having this information in your tables would be really nice.

BTW: are mounted crossbowmen still fast like in MTW? (always seemed a little odd, but nice for my HRE).