Johannes replied to me: > I did not mean, that motivating many workers is easier then motivating > few, but that motivating many workers is easy, compared to coordinating > many workers. Which means you have a hard time to get the full ST of all, > even if you motivate them well.
But 50 people could be ten people each pulling on five ropes, or hitching their harness to five chains. That isn't excessive, I'd say. What are the modern precedents for people-drawn vehicles? There is that picture from the Volga by Repin. Antarctic explorers and soldiers on the WWII eastern front pulled several hundred pounds on sleds. Seems nobody uses human teams for large loads any more. Because we have better technology now? > I meant rigging many draft animals (be they humans or other) will propably > lead to additional problems with harnesses, that you don't have if you rig > only few of the same type. Something like a modern whippletree should cope. Older patterns could have problems. > In short i suppose at some point you get less additional value from each > new draft animal you add, and i suspect 50 draft animals is propably > beyond the point, where adding new ones is helpfull at all.. The rules don't say so. Probably because they assume reasonable readers. But my original worry was about the speed, which also applies for smaller teams with smaller loads. Take 1 ton pulled by 5 guys with ST 10 each. 6 mph, right? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
