Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150127181142/@comment-17114085-20150131101053

Pacman the great wrote: (So assuming the journey would take four-ish days on a forced march, your saying that plains would reduced marching speed by three quarters? As I've said repeatedly, plains do not have that big an affect on marching speed, particularly when marchers are nearly always on roads.

Having the cavalry gallop most of the way there is like sprinting a marathon. You don't sprint, you jog (i.e. trot.)

If Mhazard posted that his battlemages would go to Riverwood after my forces got there, and if I'm quite a ways behind timewise anyway, then surely Mhazard's battlemages set out after Luciun got there, thus they couldn't arrive in time.)

"But can your arrows pierce a wall of shields?" Luciun asked. "Can your walls withstand the force of our mangonels?"

Luciun trotted away from the walls, where his army was waiting. He ordered them to move out of range of the archers, but remain in a schiltrom for safety's sake. He then ordered his mangonels to fire. (I was unaware that roads cut through the terrain instead of being made on top of it, especially in medieval-esque times. Sorry if a sound a bit sarcastic. Even with roads the terrain is still important.

To be fair Mhazard's time has been highly flexible, as he hadn't done anything for months then does them all at once. I think that is just him getting caught up with the current time.

Mangonels are made for lower trajectory, so it can't be that far from the target to fire, as the farther away you are the higher you need to fire. Because of that they are close to the city and thus in the archer's line of fire as archers can easily aim for a higher trajectory and shoot long distances.)

As soon as the Jarl was walking away the Thane gave the order for the archers to fire down on Falkreath's army.

The 500 warriors were in the town prepared to strike should the wall break.