Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic: How to Build an Early Start Horse Logistics Network

Use the Early Start DLC’s horse system

The horse logistics system arrived as a free update to the Early Start DLC. Plan this network in that DLC’s context; the announcement does not describe the horse content as a separate free replacement for owning Early Start. [1]

The update also adds a 1920 start option, providing the earlier starting context for these logistics choices. [1]

Choose the horse variant for the intended work

Choose the horse variant appropriate to the job: passenger carriage, cement cart, pull-behind crane or plow. The same update integrates horses into multiple vehicle types, so the setup can cover passenger movement, construction work and agricultural tasks rather than only one form of transport. [1]

Steps

1. Select the horse variant matching the passenger, construction or plowing task. [1]

Provide the supporting horse buildings

The supporting building list includes horse hospitals, horse construction offices, feeders, stud farms and the carpenter’s workshop. Include the buildings required for the network you are assembling. The announcement identifies the workshop as the carriage-production building and the stud farm as the breeding building. [1]

Steps

1. Use the carpenter’s workshop for carriage production. [1]
2. Use stud farms to breed horses for the horse network. [1]

Balance horse count against the assigned load

Horse count affects the vehicles’ performance, including speed and pulling load. Consider the team of horses as part of the vehicle setup, rather than treating a carriage as having the same performance regardless of the horses assigned to it. The announcement supplies no universal number that is optimal for every vehicle or route. [1]

Account for stamina when planning the network

Horses have stamina and cannot be pushed endlessly. Account for that constraint when planning a horse-driven logistics setup; the update’s support buildings and vehicle options do not remove the stamina system. Its introduction does not specify exact rest schedules or a fixed route distance, so those values should not be invented as universal operating rules. [1]