Dr. Bret Devereaux

But like, yeah, you might want to like, you want to develop local supply rather than trying to ship your horses continuously.

And so one assumes Numenorean armies also arrive primarily as infantry forces.

Yeah, there is a reason that there is no great history of cavalry-based shipwrecked armies.

Even if they are pulling barges.

Yeah, I mean...

No, you porce can pull a pretty big barge.

So when I do logistics studies for ancient armies, I can usually treat a large navigable river as a functionally infinite supply of logistics access.

Oh, wow.

Interesting.

So the usual rule of thumb, of course, I'm going to have to do this from memory, so I'm going to get the numbers slightly wrong.

but that you can, the cost of moving bulk goods is per unit distance by road 20, by river 5, by C1.

Ooh, okay.

So just an enormous difference.

So, you know, your pack mule, I mean, pack mule carry a few hundred pounds of, of food, put them on a cart and you can maybe get a thousand, 2000 pounds of food.

Stick them on a barge and need 20 tons.

Right.

Like you can, because he's not supporting the weight.

Right.

He's moving it across a low friction surface.

All he needs to do is beat the current.