Re: OOC-1
In reply to Finger of Fate (msg # 598):
A heavy infantryman is usually wearing about 60 lbs of gear in battle, and weighs no more than 270 lbs, general no more than 200 lbs average, so a total of about 120 kg for a strong individual that was not overweight (yes I am doing this in metric). Average foot area depends on many things such as size and weight, but for the massive ST14 individual considered above, the unladen foot area was between 0.025 and 0.03 m square, barefoot (yes someone did the research... journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118619 . That is 4,800 kg/M2.
A cavalry horse weighs 1400 lbs unladen, and a small saddle horse is 1200 lbs. Even if we assume no more than 1300 lbs (lightest rider on lightest horse), we are still at 590 kg, much heavier than the infantry man. Assuming a circular hoof with 5 inch diameter (generous for any but a Clydesdale) and twice as many feet, we have a load rating of 24,000 kg/M2! This horse will fare vastly worse than any heavy infantry! Even if they were deformed with 10 inch feet, the load rating of even the lightest horse with the lightest rider is still 6,000 kg/M2, 20% higher than an a heavier than average infantrymen.
Intention is to attack the light horsemen, who seem to have misjudged how far they will sink in...since when I tried to get my infantry on the same ground they sank in!
This message was last edited by the player at 06:33, Thu 08 Sept 2022.