Mushroomio wrote:Bortslovakia wrote:
The issue I see with it is how hot it gets in the Sinai. 33 pounds isn't much today, but the recommended weight for a hiking pack is 20% of body weight. IE someone 100 pounds should have a pack that weighs 20 pounds optimally for long distance travel, and 30 for 150 pounds. Since there's been no mention of a baggage train (which presents issues in of itself) I can only assume that the average soldier has their own supplies on hand (even with a supply caravan, I imagine most soldiers would have waterskins, some dried jerky or something, and a few helpful tools). Malnutrition means they likely wouldn't weigh nearly as much as modern day, since even with John's likely improvements to the food situation, the Sinai isn't the most fertile of regions. It is one of the colder parts of the Levant/Egypt due to high altitude, but the lowest it ever reaches is single digits in the dead of night during winter in specific parts of the peninsula. In short, on average it's real flat and it's real hot. Cement, to my knowledge, also serves as a good form of insulation compared to other construction materials. Combine that with the fact that wearing concrete armor without some form of padding would be hell, and you have some really bulked up soldiers. So you have overloaded soldiers marching through a flat desert at worst (plain at best), in armor that acts as a fairly good insulator. Assuming for supplies, that would put the weight closer to 40 a person (they probably aren't bringing much with them I'll concede). At the very least those soldiers are guaranteed to be exhausted, and likely would be going through water at an insane rate.
That makes sense, I'll make sure I address this in my next post
Not trying to be a dick by the way! Reading that post over, I feel like I was being a bit arrogant
