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View Poll Results: What is the best way to travel (overland) in T2k? | |||
By foot |
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1 | 4.35% |
By wheeled vehicle |
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9 | 39.13% |
By tracked vehicle |
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2 | 8.70% |
By hoof |
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6 | 26.09% |
By rail |
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0 | 0% |
Other (please specify in post) |
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5 | 21.74% |
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The escort wagon was pulled by four mules, and the rule of thumb was that a mule should not pull more than its weight on bad roads. Based on Quartermaster Corps specifications, 4 mules should weigh between 4,300 and 4,800 pounds, so that's the rough weight limit to work with. The wagon itself weighed 2,236 pounds with tool box and accessories. The estimated weight of the driver was 150 pounds and his equipment 67 pounds, and 2 days of grain for the mules was 72 pounds, for a total of 2,525 pounds. That left a potential cargo capacity of 1,775 to 2,275 pounds, or 2,025 pounds on average. Likewise, this also implies each mule needs 9 pounds of grain per day. That's actually a fair bit less than British regulations called for in WW1, which was 12-14 pounds of corn for a draft mule (plus 10-16 pounds of chaff), but an article in the April 1910 Cornell Countryman agrees that a mule got 9 pounds of grain, a horse 12 pounds, and both got 14 pounds of hay. Your average wagon could then carry 225 mule-days or 168 horse-days of grain if that was its only cargo, plus the 8 mule-days already included in the load to supply the mules for 2 days. In a 1912 test of trucks and wagons going from DC to Atlanta to Indianapolis, the mule-drawn wagons traveled no more than 20 miles per day. Averages were lower, and during WWI 10 miles was considered an attainable number for mule-drawn wagons to haul supplies given the road and weather variables they had to deal with. As long as one can graze the mules and find a steady supply of grain, a wagon can maintain slow but steady progress across the landscape at a walking speed of around 2.5 miles per hour. If the wagon has to carry its own fodder for multiple days, it quickly reduces how much it can haul, whether freight or fodder for mounted units.
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Actually, we don’t have ski troops. Cross-country skiing is basic military skill and every soldier, sailor or airmen should master this skill. There universal male conscription in Finland. When you’re 18 years old there is mandatory draft board meeting and they will inform what kind off skills you should have before entering military service. All conscripts should be fit and able to swim, ride bike and ski. During basic training those who are unfit or unable to swim, ride bikes or ski are singled out and they will receive extra training. Needles to say that its not good if your sergeant thinks that you are “incompetent weakling” and this extra training is both PT and “attitude adjustment”. Conscripts won’t receive basic training on how to ski or how to ride bike. Training emphasizes how to use skis or your bicycle in military context. This training includes bicycle marching and action drills to air raids and ambushes when you are skiing or riding bike. Finnish military don’t use mountain bikes. Armed forces use military bikes that are rugged utility bicycles. Since 1970s there have been two types units - motorized and static. Static units are usually some kind of logistic units, sea forts or force protection units. All units can use bikes and skis when needed. |
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Thanks for that info, Trooper.
Here's a thread dedicated to Bicycle Infantry. https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread....icycles&page=2 -
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