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DrHaphazard
08-10-2003, 03:15
http://www.totalwar.com/community/history.htm

I'm pretty sure this is a new feature, although its hard to tell since everything says its NEW on the totalwar site http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif In any case it was last updated Aug 8th.

Doesn't say much by of RTW, although undoubtedly they are trying to include some of these historical details into the game. This particular one is about Roman marching speeds. It seems they have settled on 15 miles per day as a reasonable marching speed. Of course they might have gone farther, but they wisely left time to create fortefied camps every night.

Oh well, nothing extremely new for people that know the Romans well, but still an interesting read.
Hakonarson
08-10-2003, 03:25
Interesting - nominal Roman marching speed was quite precise - 20 Roman miles in 8 summer hours, leaving plenty of time to dig a camp at the end of the day.

Note hte Roman day was always 12 hours long - form sunrise to sunset, hence summer hours were longer than winter ones

The forced march rate was 25 miles in the same time.
Nowake
08-10-2003, 11:08
Saw this yesterday, interesting, but I don't seee the purpose very well, except from teaching the noobs the basics of the roman military.
DrHaphazard
08-10-2003, 16:16
haha i think that pretty much is the point Fire.

Seems to me though that they wouldn't be telling us this if it didn't have something to do with the game.

Of course, i'm not sure what it has to do with the game. We obviously know the units need some kind of movement factor. I wonder if some factions units will move faster than comporable ones in another unit.

I think we were already told that Roman armies will set up fortefied camps for the night. At least i think we were told that.
Sjakihata
08-10-2003, 17:57
On many occasions the romans simply left their fortification behind them, then they could always opt to reatreat to it, if they faced enemy armies.
Nowake
08-11-2003, 08:59
Well, as far as I know, we will have night camps. I wonder if we can transform these into permanent bases? Most probably I think. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif