11-14-2020, 09:47 AM
Hi Nick
Missed posting Sheans work on HB mules, note table 1 to 5 with reference to army size of 136 k down to 36k to show how it was logistcly supported by moving onto supply rather than being pushed forward by supply..
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436417?rea...b_contents
Here is Roth logistics study for Rome, http://www.legioxxirapax.com/zasoby/The_...235AD).pdf
Your further point has nothing to do with pop numbers of the sq miles moved over in a days march, which is spread over any forces moving over that region and requiring it, so is not relavent, and i just pointed out you cant just buy or confiscate munitions, power, cartridges, cannon balls etc, you have to have it come from a base of supply which for all of Nappys campaigns meant 00s of miles from where it was consumed, munition logistics in Nappys age was totaly different from alexander period. Alexander slingers took lead ingots with them to cast in shot, when needed, we know from archeology where Alexander ore was mined and where it ended up as shot. We know which of Nappys magazines pushed munitions to the corps requiring it.
Missed posting Sheans work on HB mules, note table 1 to 5 with reference to army size of 136 k down to 36k to show how it was logistcly supported by moving onto supply rather than being pushed forward by supply..
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436417?rea...b_contents
Here is Roth logistics study for Rome, http://www.legioxxirapax.com/zasoby/The_...235AD).pdf
Your further point has nothing to do with pop numbers of the sq miles moved over in a days march, which is spread over any forces moving over that region and requiring it, so is not relavent, and i just pointed out you cant just buy or confiscate munitions, power, cartridges, cannon balls etc, you have to have it come from a base of supply which for all of Nappys campaigns meant 00s of miles from where it was consumed, munition logistics in Nappys age was totaly different from alexander period. Alexander slingers took lead ingots with them to cast in shot, when needed, we know from archeology where Alexander ore was mined and where it ended up as shot. We know which of Nappys magazines pushed munitions to the corps requiring it.
