Avoid mountains or forests, they will make you go slower. Have 2 or 3 extra horses in your inventory (I'm not sure if this actually make you go faster). Now you can hack, slice, maim and stab up to 64 friends and strangers across 12 specially designed multiplayer maps in your choice of 7 multiplayer modes. The new multiplayer modes in Mount & Blade: Warband have ramped up the medieval action by a few notches.

Have more mounted units than infantry This can be expensive, but an army with many cavalry units will travel faster than an army with lots of infantry units. This is the first part of our guide to Mount & Blade: Warband.

Dont know when this was implemented (works as of Warband 1. Increase your Pathfinding skill It will make you go faster in the map. FAQ, unlockables, tricks, and secrets for Mount And Blade: Warband for PC. Also, Control + Space speeds up in-game time on the world map, whether moving or stationary. Fast travel in first M&B I've been using fast travel for a long time, and it is excruciating to watch my party crawl across the map at a slow speed. If your Athletics skill is 4 and your Riding skill is 3, you will go faster on foot than on a horse in the map. Mount&Blade: Warband The Guildhall - Warband Discussion The Warlord's Den - Single Player (Moderators: Orion, Erminas) Speed up Wolrd Map movement. Increase your Athletics or Riding skills You can go faster in a horse with a high Riding skill, or faster on foot with a high Athletics skill. You can put horses on your inventory and the effect will be reducted, but don't put too many horses or can end up going even slower than before. Don't have many goods in your inventory Carrying lots of goodies will make you go slower. Disband some units Sometimes you may have some units you don't actually need (like bandits), you can put 'em on a garrison or disband them, and you may gain some speed.

Make sure your army has high morale, get food or win some battles to grow it up.

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