05-30-2006, 07:58 PM
Baggage is also an issue. Any army with an animal-powered baggage train has to cope with the beasts as well. Horses and oxen need to water and graze, and that takes time, and oxen are (as I understand it) just plain slow. Very strong, but they are not very fast under any conditions. And of course, wagons and carts need decent roads to move at any speed. Each time a wagon gets stuck, the whole column loses time. Once you get to a legion sized unit, with artillery and so forth, mobility may be reduced considerably.
Felix Wang
