Dr. Bret Devereaux
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You may actually be linking up with a supply magazine that's already there.
You may be loading the barges there for the first time.
Who knows?
But yeah, the river really is going to clean up your supply access for this jaunt pretty easily.
And with a 200-person force as opposed to, you know, a 2,000 or 20,000-person force, you can get away with a lot.
Yeah, you got barges and a river.
No, and it's a huge difference.
If you wanted to try to just wagon logistics this thing,
To get 30 days tether, you'd need a wagon for about every six men.
You're not going to pull with 10 horses.
And if you want to double that again to actually get all the way to Rivendell with your wagons, then I mean, good luck getting them over the mountains.
Well, right.
Probably your plan at that point is to abandon the wagons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
you probably need a wagon, probably a wagon per man, which is unworkable.
Wow.
Riverine logistics, man.
Yeah.
Two guys, 200 guys, 2000 guys, 20,000 guys, whatever.