50,000 soldiers per 1000 line-of-supply miles?
(Which doesn't count troops at the front.)
What will Arcana do during those months?
Maybe bring up a Big Army of their own? A-dragonback?
Arcana has several times Sharona's population,
so could support that many times bigger an army?
But support them tens of thousands of miles from home?
HTM
brnicholas wrote:But how long do you think it will be before the Sharonans can cover all those hundreds of miles of railroad with a company? If the Arcanans can't attack a dug in Sharonan company then all the Sharonans have to do to protect the railroad is dominate it by fire. At a company being 250 men, if we figure a company can cover 5 miles with its artillery, it only takes 50,000 men to put every inch of 1000 miles of track under the guns of two companies.
Sharona has a population of 10 billion and appears to me to have the per capita industrial capacity of France shortly before World War I. They can support that many troops.
I think they will have enough troops up to let them move forward as fast as they can build railroads within six to nine months.
Nicholas