Dragaera

Geography: Version .2 Nearing Completion

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Mon Mar 29 17:11:02 PST 2004

Peter H. Granzeau wrote:

>> During those 7 days, he marched in the vicinity of 800 miles, which
>> works out to about 7 miles per hour... still an awfully fast march
>> but... well, I don't know enough to call that impossible.
>
> I think it is extremely improbable.  While an army of Dragaerans
> might make it, historic forced marches by humans end up at maybe 45
> miles in a day, and never extend over the period of a week.  The
> Marine Corps figures on 4 kph (2.5 mph) for marching speed, and
> anything over 32 km (20 mi) in a day is considered a forced march.
> The distance is extended by extending the time on the march, meaning
> that 24 hours would make 96 miles.  That might be done one time, but
> not for over a week!

The Roman Empire was won and kept by being able to do forced marches better
than their opponents.

Does anybody have any figures on how fast their armies moved and were ready
to fight?