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RE: Showing city garrisons on map
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:58 pm
by Mike Scholl
ORIGINAL: Sheytan
15 miles a day??? I marched farther then that each day in the Infantry...
Yep... The "average daily march" for a Roman Legion was 20 miles per day..., to be done in 5 hours..., carrying 80 lbs on your back..., and building a fortified camp each evening. Guy must be riding a "glue factory reject" to make only 15 miles a day on horseback..., maybe he should be carrying the horse.
RE: Showing city garrisons on map
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:07 pm
by Sheytan
rofl yes id have to agree, that horse was probably bieng carried [:D]
ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl
ORIGINAL: Sheytan
15 miles a day??? I marched farther then that each day in the Infantry...
Yep... The "average daily march" for a Roman Legion was 20 miles per day..., to be done in 5 hours..., carrying 80 lbs on your back..., and building a fortified camp each evening. Guy must be riding a "glue factory reject" to make only 15 miles a day on horseback..., maybe he should be carrying the horse.
RE: Showing city garrisons on map
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:18 am
by Director
No, there's a great difference in marching on a Roman road and riding horseback on a muddy country lane.
Fifteen miles isn't a bad scouting range (a fifteen-mile range is a thirty-mile round trip), but I would think a courier on horseback could ride a lot farther than fifteen miles. Terrain, of course, permitting.
RE: Showing city garrisons on map
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:53 am
by nmleague
When I made the comment of 15 miles per day that for a overall distance of possibly 400 miles over rough terrrain, some very rough. I dont doubt that a person walking could cover 20 miles in day over mild terrain, or a rider on a horse could cover 30. But could they do that for 15-20 days straight. Im under the impression, that there were few good roads in the US at this time period and most of those in the NE or running east to west, and many of the existing roads could turn to quagmires in poor weather. In europe between Roman roads and trails/roads/trade routes that had been in use for hundreds of years, it might be easier to achieve a high rate of miles per day.
Maybe someone that is expert on extend rates of travel for that time period could set us straight.
RE: Showing city garrisons on map
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:04 pm
by spruce
ORIGINAL: Sheytan
Bear in mind that the dots are not always a good indicator. Units reduced in strength do not appear to display...example I have 2 reduced units in a fort, only one dot is displayed on screen however. I noted this as I had placed a additional unit in a fort and after doing so rechecked the fort after only noting one dot on the map to verify the additional unit actually was in the fort.
ORIGINAL: nmleague
Just ran into this in a PBEM game, hadnt thought of it before. Currently each side can see the green dots by a city indicating a garrison. In a current PBEM game my opponant was able to see that I had pulled garrrisons out of some cities and took advantage of that situation. It seems that armies would have no idea whether a city was garrisoned or not until they actually tried to take the city or at a minimum enter the sector that the city was located in. Is there anyway to turn off those garrison strength green dots?
I have to deny that - one dot equals a certain amount of troops - dunno ... if you have depleted brigades - 2 brigades might make out one dot - the same thing goes the other way around - if you have the tech upgrade +20% to brigade size - your brigades will grow very large - and one brigade will display as 2 dots.
So dots as such are just a numercial way of saying how much troops are - altough FOW is applied when speaking about enemy "dots".