| We differentiate between two
kinds of movement during the game, the strategic and the tactical manoeuvres.
Strategic movement results in this description to long distances and long
durations, whereas tactical movement is the propagation on short distances
for a short time, i.e. a chase through a castle or the narrow streets of
a town.
Distances are measured in miles in Arkania (1
Arkanian mile=1 kilometre) and in steps (1 step=1m).
Strategic movement
The strategic movement - you could as well call them speed
of travel - is important, when you want to measure the distance a gang
of heroes can walk or ride during one day. Unfortunately, the speed of
travel is always the speed of the slowest group member. Good average values
per day are:
| Group of travellers walking: 30 miles
Group of travellers riding: 50 miles |
These are the distances people can travel at slightly
quick pace without spending all the travellers' ot the animals' energy.
If time is short and the group wants to travel faster they can, but beware
the animals:
| Group of travellers marching: 45 miles
Travellers driving their horses: 70 miles |
Important: A march or drive can only be carried
out every other day.
Travelling at normal speed you have to think about
the surrounding nature and terrain. |
Bad terrain slows down the
pace of the brave heroes. Therefore there is a modificator on the main
value.
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Terrain modificators:
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Imperial Road 110%
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Open fields 100%
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Open forest 75%
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Hills 75%
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Forest 50%
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Mountains 30%
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Dense forest / Jungle: 10%
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Swamps 10%
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Means of transport:
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Oxcar 25 miles/day
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Horsecar 30 miles/day
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Travel coach 50 miles/day
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Stage-caoch 120 miles/day*
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Barge upstream 20 miles/day
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Barge downstream 40 miles/day
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Sailing boat 140 miles/day
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*frequent use of horses enables the stage-coach to go
that fast, it uses nearly only imperial roads
Tactical manoeuvring
Tactical movement is normally only interesting if the
situation of a chase arises and somebody has to catch somebody else. How
long will it take ? Does it happen ? So what we need to know for it is
the maximum speed a creature can go and its stamina (i.e. how long it can
go that fast).
Maximum speed: In the following we proceed on
the assumption that a sporty, agile human being (which is the group that
most of the heroes belong to) can easily obtain a maximum speed of 8 steps
per second or very agile heroes (AGILITY 16-20) may even reach speed of
up to 9 steps/second whereas less agile heroes (AGILITY 8-10) make only
7 steps/second. Dwarfs are limited because of their short legs to 5 steps/second. |