Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150131101228/@comment-17114085-20150203160310

Pacman the great wrote: (Dunno, I reckon about fifty heavy inf. and fifty light inf.)

(Look, let me show the maths to explain why Whiterun's army isn't going to get here:

Let's assume that our standard movement speed is ten miles per day. That's extremely slow, to account for possible rough terrain. For the record, a person walking on their own would move at three miles per hour, and travel for eight hours, so that means that we've reduced the standard walking pace by more than a half.

So, assuming we have a one week journey at our standard walking pace, that's seventy miles. A raven travels at about fifty miles per hour, so the raven would have taken eighty minutes approx. Let's assume infantry on a forced march travel at five miles per hour, and for eight hours a day (eight hours is the usual length of a marching day in the military). So that gives us forty miles per day. That means the infantry could never reach the battle that day. The marching range of mongol cavalry is about sixty miles, and they were fast and in open steppe. You cannot get there in a day. Even if you could, it would take hours, and this battle has been going on for an hour at most.)

The mangonels continued to fire at the breach in the walls, killing many in the tightly packed shield wall. The low trajectory enabled the rocks to go through several ranks of men.

The infantry and archers reformed in the woods. The archers resumed their tactic of firing from cover. They fired high to go over the crenelations and hit Riverwood's archers on the walls. (K, so 100 from that battle and I'd say another 20 from archer fire. So you have about 1080 soldiers

We've already went through this debate twice already, going through it a third time isn't going to change anything. Also this whole siege/battle has been going on for a few hours, a lot has happened.

The shieldwall wasn't at the wall, they were in the town near the breach.)

The fire from the magonels killed around 50 soldiers. "Move back!" The thane ordered and the shieldwall and the warriors broke rank and regrouped deeper in the town.

Much of the walls around the town of Riverwood have a wooden roof, so the high fire from the Falkreath archers didn't injure many Riverwood archers, who continued to fire at the engineers. The Engineers suffered quite a few casualties since the archers first started firing at them a while back.