leliaanaa:

leliaanaa:

bc apparently this is all i’m thinking about right now

fair weather, flat terrain, roads

• foot: 20 m/day
• forced march: 30 m/day (unsustainable for long periods)
• horse: 40 m/day
• fast carriage: 60 m/day
• horse relay: 80 m/day (changing horses at each town)

fair weather, hilly terrain, roads (or flat terrain, bad weather)

• foot: 14 m/day
• forced march: 20 m/day
• horse: 25 m/day
• fast carriage: 30 m/day
• horse relay: 70 m/day

fair weather, mountainous terrain, roads (or hilly terrain, bad weather)

• foot: 9 m/day
• forced march: 15 m/day
• horse: 20 m/day
• fast carriage: 40 m/day
• horse relay: 60 m/day

fair weather, wooded terrain, off road

• foot: 8 m/day
• forced march: not here you’re not
• horse: 20 m/day
• fast carriage: see forced march
• horse relay: ditto

fair weather, mountainous terrain, off road

• foot: 6 m/day
• forced march: don’t do it
• horse: 10 m/day
• fast carriage: ur not getting a carriage up here m8
• horse relay: there’s nowhere to relay ur horse up here

fair weather, experienced sailors

• decent-sized merchant ship: 80 m/day (brig/carrack/cog type)
• fast/unladen ship: 100 m/day (caravel/clipper/corvette type)
• in peak conditions, you could comfortably get up to 150 m/day
• these boat speeds include some margin for days when little progress is made vs days when lots of progress is made
• for bad weather, just add on a day or two i guess

other modes of transport

• horse & cart: 10 m/day
• fully laden soldier: 15 m/day
• rowing: 3 m/hour (quite fast, 1 mile can be covered in anything from 15 to 45 mins depending on how experienced you are/what type of boat you’re using)

things to note

• walking speed: 3-5 m/hour (on average)
• walking for 7-8 hours a day
• riding speed: 25 m/hour gallop ; 13 m/hour canter ; 9 m/hour trot ; 4 m/hour walk
• obviously it’s unsustainable to ride at a flat gallop all day, unless you’re changing horses at each town
• riding for 10 hours a day
• 1 knot = 1.15 m/hour

reblogging to add:

dragon flight

• maths & reasoning taken from here
• 10m dragon (body), unladen, with about 20kW of power : 80mph
• with one passenger: 50mph