Castenea wrote:Building the rail to Hell's Gate from current rail heads I think will be a 1-5 year endeavor, with supply of rations and other perishables being the actual bottle neck, not rail or other non-perishables.SYED wrote:The map is supposed to give a second distance if sea travel is involved, but the one in the side chain is not mentioned.
Say they push the enemy just beyond hells gate, how long would it take to build train track all tye way to the front. It could be speeded up if the began stockpjling material and equipment and men in preparation. Their enemy is at the end of a long supply line, so they would have a period of safety to build in.
Trains might be vulnerable, but the sheer mass they can move will make up for it and they can always establish a secondary purely cavalry or steam vehicles just in case.
Both sides are actually operating more or less on a shoestring at Hell's Gate, and I agree with several other posters that the Sharonian offensive will get there about the same time as the Arcanan reinforcements.
Mumm...maybe. The Arcanans have the potential to move a bit faster, but their communications suck. The Sharonians have better communications and can react quicker with much heavier forces even if their actal movement is slower.
Don
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