Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150127181142/@comment-17114085-20150130222711

Pacman the great wrote: (First of all: horses cannot mantain a gallop for an entire day, or even a few minutes. A trot sure, but a gallop, no. A horse, mantaining a sustainable march, would travel at five miles per hour. Second of all, even if we go with the Whiterun being a week's march from Riverwood, you still can't reduce seven days to one. Going through rough terrain can significantly reduce speed, but not by a factor of seven. And no army is so efficent it can mobilise in less than a day, particularly in an enviroment without telecommunications.)

(About Luciun hating the poor: he doesn't oppress them, he just holds them in low regard. He sees the benefits of helping them and keeping them healthy and fed, in a similar way that he thinks cattle should be healthy and fed. Not uncommon in the medieval society Elder Scrolls is (loosely) based on.)

"Your archers will be powerless against mangonels," Luciun said. "Unless you surrender, this battle is inevitable. I beseech you to stand down and accept defeat." (I don't think you are reading my posts all that well. I clearly said 'And yeah, they would reach there within the day with hard marching, especially the cavalry as they can gallop most of the way there.' I didn't say that they could gallop all day, I said they could gallop most of the way there. And Whiterun did the same thing when Sungard called for their help. A march that would've taken roughly two weeks, maybe three, was reduced to a few days of forced marching.

About Luciun, yeah I was referring to the fact that he doesn't respect them, thinking they are bellow him. Like a rich snob. Like I said in a previous post the Thane is lowborn so he takes that to heart.

I would also like to point out that Bruma had 200 Battlemages follow your army to Riverwood, Mhazard posted that a while back, they are going to attack your forces when you attack Riverwood.)

"Our archers won't be aiming at your mangonels, we will be aiming at your men. Besides, your mangonels won't be able to fire over our walls, they are made for lower trajectories. By the time you break through our wall we will have taken out almost a quarter of your men with our archers." The Thane yelled back. "Unless you surrender. This battle is inevitable. I beseech you to stand down and accept defeat." He was grinning as he said this last part, which was word for word what the Jarl said.