part six, page three

I don’t know about that last point. If you’ve got an entire army, the sea might be a better bet for transportation. For the most part it’s more consistently level than land, and you don’t have to rely on your own strength to pull all the heavy cargo. Traveling by sea is no picnic, but I’d say that going through the mountains is at least as dangerous.

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The people here are at about late medieval – early modern technology level. The Gundring ships are oversized Viking longboats, but they have guns. It is very notable that they do not have the towers for archers, typical of Mediterranean medieval warships. Thus, the Gundring really trust their gunnery.

I’d like to note that 17th century navies were capable of significant naval logistics support. The Swedish Army fought many wars in Germany, Poland and the Baltic states completely dependent on its maritime and riverine supply lines to the mainland Sweden. However, such supply was possible then, and now, only if the dominance of sea was uncontested. (The Swedish Navy had uncontested dominum Maris Baltici at the time.)

Of course, even with maritime supply lines for materiel, the food supply of the army took place at the location, i.e by plundering the farms.

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