How fast can a laden wagon move along turnpikes, dirt roads, trails and across open country? We already have many differentials to include forest and rough hexes. Are they accurate? [?][?][?] It's a judgment call and necessarily a crude approximation.
Of course, wagon movement slows down considerably when they leave turnpikes! And consider that so far, we have not had to deal with weather, such as with Burnside's "Mud March." Dirt roads quickly turn to mud with a downpour, which I suspect would make wagon movement the same as rough terrain. Should <u>a dry dirt road</u> only take off two movement factors, instead of halving MFs? In any case, an army stays on hardened roads as long as it can because wheeled vehicles keep up better.
It is long evident and widely understood that so many offensives and retreats throughout history are/were conducted along various kinds of roads because their supply vehicles could move multiples of distances as opposed to rates going cross country. I remember that Patton was looking at the routes that King Henry moved his army on (Middle Ages) for clues of best paths for his mechanized units.
Are the game programmers lazy, or just keeping it simple for us dumbasses? [}:)][;)] I suspect a bit of both. [:D]
You realize, of course, that you're asking for more complexity each time that you ask for more accuracy? [:D] Maybe units in Stonewall Jackson's command should get a movement bonus. [:p]
I can live with more complexity, especially as options. [8D]
<font color="orange">EDIT: Thanks for the research Gary McCl. Actually I think that wagon MFs are 10 while infantry is 12. But I may have missed an update.</font id="orange">[:)]
BG Ross McDaniel
2nd Bde, 3rd Div, III Corps, AoG, CSA
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