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For land transport, the typical solution is supply dumps over a large number of partial trips. Your caravan has a max range of N days; you instead go N/3 days,
by saalweachter 4y ago
For land transport, the typical solution is supply dumps over a large number of partial trips.
Your caravan has a max range of N days; you instead go N/3 days, drop 1/3 of your supplies, and then return. Do that twice.
For your third trip, you can load up your caravan, travel N/3 days to your supply dump, and reload using half the cached supplies. Now you travel another N/3 days, drop 1/3 of your load, and then return, stopping for the cached supplies again on the return.
You still consume increasing amounts of resources, but unlike rockets or boats you don't have to carry them all from the start.
- panick21_ 4y agoA reasoned book on Central Asian conquest by the Russian made this point over and over. The Russians needed support from their own step allies to handle the large number of camels. The Kazars knew where to put supply dumbs and such.