With a cavalry-based army, however, you are probably wealthy enough not to engage in cattle-related quests, and moving it with you makes you lose the advantage of speed, keeping the disadvantage of huge price of elite cavalry. For me, it seemed very annoying and time-consuming compared to other things you may do in the game.
If you have a relatively strong infantry-based army, you will probably just have a hard time moving the cattle. If you have a very small army, bandits are likely to try to rob you, and you can neither fight back nor run: you have the cattle. Quests to deliver cattle are hence useless too. More or less useless in vanilla, invaluable in some modsĭue to the way cattle is normally handled in the game, it is almost useless - it 'runs away' from you instead of following you, and, unless your world map speed is insanely high, which is not always the situation, it is very hard not to lose it.
