^^I think he is talking about Warband.
I stumbled upon this from Waltf4:
The following plot shows the run times for characters with different combinations of agility, athletics, and weight.
Doesn't look like nullifiying to me.
I'd talk about 'sprint mode', what Urist is talking about in
this post, but due to the fact that TaleWorlds removed the beta thread section of their forums, his link is essentially broken and I don't remember
exactly how it worked. Essentially though the point I was going to bring up with it, is that athletics doesn't really increase your max speed, it focuses more on increasing acceleration.
The problem I have with that graph, is that it's not focusing on situations where athletics would really matter in this discussion and athletics doesn't increase your maximum speed, at least I am quite sure it doesn't. So a long duration trial is rather pointless for this discussion. The graph shows a static velocity, rather than the acceleration. I'd rather see a graph showing distance traveled for a 2 second trial or time taken to move only a couple of meters. Such a graph would hold far more weight in this conversation than that one does.