>I have absolutely no clue if 20 mi wide makes sense. My experience with >rivers is terribly limited; I'm used to craploads of little lakes and >things, not serious waterways. :/ > >Does 20 mi make ANY sense at all?
I suspect that about the only place you'd find it that wide is maybe at the mouth - not as it wends its way through terrain. Speed of water is dependent upon two basic things. The narrower the causeway, the faster the water goes through it - all things being equal. The other thing that determines speed of water is the drop of land or angle if you will of gravity's gradient. This tends to be measured in drop per X feet. Water flowing from a height of 100 feet to 50 feet over a distance of 50 feet is going to be dropping at a near 45 degree angle, and thus would be faster than if the water dropped 50 feet in elevation over a distance of 50 miles. >> With an ox pulling it (note that this speed is realtive to the ox, not >> the water): >> >> TL03 Barge Towed >> Subassemblies: Vehicle +7, Body +7. >> P&P: staff and collar harness (2 hexes of ground creatures, total ST 30). > >I'm assuming these numbers are 3e, because we don't exactly have our Ve >system for 4e. That said, 3e cattle have ST in the 40-80 range acording >to Bestiary, and Oxen should be at the high end of that, being the 1.5 >to 2 ton type, rather than the half ton type which I assume are dairy >cattle, and cows to boot. If you have a ST 70 ox pulling, rather than a >30, what's the performance like? One ox being 2 hexes of ground creature :D > >Also, if you substitude Hobgoblins for oxen (say, ST 14 for >"professional" towmen) do they need different harnesses ergo different >efficiency? Or can I sub in two 4e ST 14 hobs for your 1 3e ST 30 ox and >get approximately the same results? Note too, that the Oxen do not get to apply their full strength to pulling a vessel or a plow or a wagon. GURPS LOW TECH gives rules for this that if you want, I can dig up sometime tomorrow morning (I have to go to bed now and then go to work). _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
