Kingdom can ride wargs.  Buy them in the shop for your hero.

I agree.  I usually play as Kingdom, but decided to play Empire instead.  I have never had horses as kingdom, then when I switch to empire, I get three horses within 10 squares of my capital.  It'd be nice to be able to utilize these resources, even if as a food bonus for the opposing faction 

Is there any difference between the two anyway?

But if a Warg is just a "horse in wolf's clothing (fur?), and of course vice versa for horse -> warg in equine clothing (fur?) - then that should be addressed too. That would make for another point of difference between the two (what are they called anyway? Factions are the subgroups of Kingdoms and Empires) I guess I'll call them cultures.

Maybe let horses be faster but wargs give an attack (the warg can bite or something). Something like that.

more imprtantly, i'd like to see a combat advantage for taking a mount other than just speed. there should be hit point increases and a massive attack bonus on the turn you charge. cavalry ruled medieval warfare.

No, they did not. The pikemen did.

Perhaps it would be something good to add to the end of each element's spell book. For example, Air could get Pegasi, Fire could get Red Dragons, Earth could get a giant spider, water...well that might be a challenge. Maybe water would get a sea serpent and be THE way to travel on water.

Require ownership of a node as well.

Agree completely, I didn't really mean to imply otherwise. My personal opinion is that a game should model the real world to a degree that remains fun. As spears (and pikes) were developed as a counter to cavalry, so should they be in the game.

I like the idea of specific mount for specific races.. However I would like more variety in mounts.. I do support the idea of the cross race mount (IE warg for kingdom and so on) being a  very rare tech or a very rare quest reward, just to toss  little variety in the mix..

I agree...  Kingdom should be able to use Wargs for training soldiers to fight and archers to shoot.   While Empire should be able to use Horses for food.

There's currently two horses and two wargs... and they are all exactly the same.        Very sad stuff.

I agree we need more mounts... the lack of fantasy depth and strategic gameplay inside Elemental is painful.   I have faith Stardock will be able to fix these weaknesses with time.

Flying Dragon Mounts should be one of the easter eggs inside the game.  Extremely super rare yet still possible.

Dang, the Kingdoms use wargs as bait and the Empires are a bunch of horse eaters - what a cruel world!

Mods

https://forums.elementalgame.com/396235
edit the values (mount income rate, cost of the building, city level requirement, etc) to your own liking!

I put em on req city lvl 4, 100 gold cost, 8 turns build time. 1 mount per 4 turns, 1 stable per faction allowed.
Does exactly what i wanted from the vanilla game, have some mounts available for me in the midgame, and more in the late-game if im lucky enough to actually capture an actual warg / horse resource in the wild. It basically acts as a backup, a slow trickle of mounts, while the resource in the wild is what allows you to have big mounted armies

pastures does not wok well for wargs.. But some general term rather then a specific one, Mounts for example or perhaps simply have the same tile display the proper name for the faction that mouses over it.. IE pasture for horses dens for wargs.. this may be harder to code but allows for future resources that may mean differing things to different factions.. just food for thought..

I definitely think there should be a difference.

In general ... horses should be faster ...

but a racing warg might be about as fast (or faster) than a heavily armored war horse

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and then a racing horse would just leave everyone in the dust.

(this is why combat speed != run speed)

I mean, I realise that MoM just used a single combat speed, but come on ... if we are using Action points, then we should rly have a Run Speed and an Attack Speed (and just have everyone and their mom use 2.0 Action Points) ... and Run Speed lets movement use less AP, and Attack Speed lets attacks use less AP.

Although we could still copy MoM in that a ranged attack uses all AP regardless. ( or make "Archer Speed" purely Dex based )