How do you increase movement speed on the map in Mount & Blade

There are 4 ways that I remember off the top of my head, but I haven't played for a while, so I won't be much more help.

  1. A hero with high pathfinding skill (remember, if you have this skill and your companion also does, you get a bonus)

  2. Smaller party

  3. Extra horses in your inventory

  4. Amount of "infantry" and "mounted" troops, armies with more of the latter move way faster, so there are a lot of benefits of having your army composed entirely of cavalry, not even mentioning how strong it generally is.


Also, Control + Space speeds up in-game time on the world map, whether moving or stationary.

Don't know when this was implemented (works as of Warband 1.134), but I wish I'd had this functionality years ago.