Exactly how much does a supply depot increase army speed?

[Odin29]

Does anyone have an exact number on how much they increase army speed? A parish army's base speed seems to be about the same as a player army's base speed, but fully upgraded it seems to be about 5x(?) the speed of a fully upgraded player army (which is 6x base speed.) This would indicate a roughly 30x increase with all depots down. So, if the increase is linear, each depot would increase speed by about 150%. I'll have to test this on a fresh parish, but from previous observations I didn't think the first couple gave that much.

[Odin29]

Hmm. Looks like I'll have to test this over the next 2 months or so. Currently I have 0 supply depots in this parish, and neighbor parish will take 1:32:51 to reach. I will update here once supply depot 1 finishes, etc.

[Odin29]

i didnt get to record parish speed with 0 depot, but
my current speed from my village to another village on normal outermost honor circle is 1:42:41 (Level 0 Forced march)
from a parish with 1 depot to a similarly close distance it's 51:54.

Edit: ok 2nd depot is done and the time is 34:36. assuming base time is 1:43:48, the increase is flat 200% from base.

this should be the number then

depot Reduction
0 - - - 0.00%
1 - - - 50.00%
2 - - - 66.67%
3 - - - 75.00%
4 - - - 80.00%
5 - - - 83.33%
6 - - - 85.71%
7 - - - 87.50%
8 - - - 88.89%
9 - - - 90.00%
10 - - - 90.91%
11 - - - 91.67%
12 - - - 92.31%
13 - - - 92.86%
14 - - - 93.33%
15 - - - 93.75%
16 - - - 94.12%
17 - - - 94.44%
18 - - - 94.74%
19 - - - 95.00%
20 - - - 95.24%

That would explain a perceived diminishing return without an actual diminishing return. Each depot would then increase army speed by 1x of it's base move speed, up to a total of 21x base movespeed, while a normal village army can only go up to 6x base move speed. That would mean a fully upgraded parish only moves at 3.5x a fully upgraded army though. I've seen parish armies move out perceptibly faster, but that could just a misconception on my part.

[countjimula]

I've seen parish armies move out perceptibly faster, but that could just a misconception on my part.

Or they could have been using cards.

[Odin29]

I've seen parish armies move out perceptibly faster, but that could just a misconception on my part.

Or they could have been using cards.

Wait can parish armies be carded?? I was under the impression nothing parish related could be carded (like castle, army, gold, resources, etc.)

[Odin29]

Holy crap parish armies can be carded.. wow lol. How did I never notice that??

So that means that if you put down all 20 supply depots and played a 6x army speed card, your capitol army would move at 21x the speed of a normal maxed force march army. So if you have a target an hour away, it would take 3 minutes. That's insane lol.

[Odin29]

Holy crap parish armies can be carded.. wow lol. How did I never notice that??

So that means that if you put down all 20 supply depots and played a 6x army speed card, your capitol army would move at 21x the speed of a normal maxed force march army. So if you have a target an hour away, it would take 3 minutes. That's insane lol.

Not to mention if you are playing in the second age were all armies move at x2 speed.

That would be scary coming from a country capitol haha. A 900 man army that can instantly be rebuilt and travel across a county in 1 minute.

Need a big castle busted opened? No problem! I'll hit it with 2700 troops in 3 minutes. Ouch!

[Odin29]

Hmm. Looks like I'll have to test this over the next 2 months or so. Currently I have 0 supply depots in this parish, and neighbor parish will take 1:32:51 to reach. I will update here once supply depot 1 finishes, etc.

First supply depot done, new time to reach previous benchmark is 46:25 or 2785 seconds, previous time was 5571 seconds. This is exactly half (rounded down,) so I think, from the evidence here, it's safe to assume that each supply depot increases speed by 100% of base.

[Odin29]

First supply depot done, new time to reach previous benchmark is 46:25 or 2785 seconds, previous time was 5571 seconds. This is exactly half (rounded down,) so I think, from the evidence here, it's safe to assume that each supply depot increases speed by 100% of base.

No, you'll find that the time with 2 depots is 33.33% of the original and only 25% with the third depot.

Yes, which implies that the speed is increasing by 100% of the base. So 0 depots = 100% move speed, 1 depot = 200% move speed, 2 depots = 300% move speed, 3 depots = 400% speed, etc. So at any point "time=base time*1/1+x" (where x=number of supply depots.) So if original time was 2hrs, and you put down 3 depots then "time=2hrs*1/1+3" = "time=2hrs*.25" = "time=.5hrs or 30min," 5 depots = 20 minutes, 11 depots = 10 minutes, etc.