Quote Originally Posted by Tomi says
I won’t pursue this anymore, but would like to hear any further comments
Ok some comments then

The basic Roman march speed was 100 steps/minute and quick march was 120 steps/minute. Being loaded up with equipment does not effect such marching speeds although fatigue will be greater. You can expect troops to march for hours with 100 steps/minute and highly trained can do it even faster as the links also showed.

A step/pace has been pretty much standard through the ages and is 2.5 feet (76 centimeters) but a step will be bigger if marching at very high rates (about 3 feet/91 centimeters)

Today US Marines are marching 120 steps/minute and double quick march at 180 steps/minute. Thats 91 meters/minute and 165 meters/minute. British troops before WW2 used the same except the step for double quick march were 40 inches so they did 180 meters/minute.

US Civil War infantry was to advance towards the enemy position at 110 steps and then 165 steps or greater when under fire. Only going into a run the last few yards.


I checked some Princepes and they did 120 steps/minute that should give 90 meters/minute but is actually 100 meters so they have nice long steps

So troops are always on quick march in the game which isnt that realistic. Their running speed is 250 meters/minute and thats really something no unit would be doing as they have to keep order in the formation and it would tire men quickly. Armor and shields also makes very fast movement rates difficult.

But the actual distance travelled over time is not that important for the game, its more the difference between march and double quick march. Even if we give the Romans the benefit of the doubt (and turn them all into US marines) and assume they can do 180 steps that would still only be x 1.8 the marching speed.

IMO the x 1.66 increase we had in MTW is more realistic than the x 2.5 we have in RTW demo.

CBR