I won a fight this morning and was heading for the next village. Time to arrival < 1h (0.9x or something). Now I am attacked 34m before that village, still within the hour. Is there any protection after a battle at all and how long does it last? IMHO battle protection should be increased by some time (2h) as currently you can pin down someone with that for days or even weeks.
The battle over those few goods is taking 5 days already. I got the feeling that attacking isn't even worth it, because you lose a lot of gear you have to rebuy and can't even sell looted gear, because its worthless. But you lose a lot of time you can spend trading...