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- 9/4/2003 6:36:41 PM

Capitaine

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Supply: Should always be on. Warfare in this age, particularly at the strategic level, was ALL about logistics. Cannot really have any realism at all w/o it.

Winter movement: Given this is a large scale, abstracted strategic game, I'm not sure a doubling of land movement costs rule is appropriate. Definitely units would move slower, but the movement rates are already artificially slow compared to what really could be accomplished. In truth, again it was logistics (no fodder for horses -- horses were used by ALL troops, not just cavalry -- available for foraging; armies ALWAYS foraged for fodder b/c too much was needed to transport by wagon even in spring/summer) that limited winter opns, not snow or slow movement itself. Although, obviously, heavy snow could impede actual movement, it just isn't really that critical. Also, don't believe this was in the actual rules, was it?

(in reply to peskpesk)