Editing Hiking (section)

== Example 1: The supply column ==

Tirrikamu Achan has a party of five medium infantry to escort ten bearers across 20 tsan of forest tracks and then 20 more tsan of jungle. How long will it take and what kind of state will his men be in?

All his party have Teamwork 1, giving 15 TPs, Achan's planning 1 gives another 3TP, his staff officer roll succeeeds for +1TP, his native guide leading the bearers knows the area giving +1TP and three of his men succeed in Occupation: Legionary rolls +3TP Total 22TP.

Achan and all his soldiers have Hiking 1 (military) and 6 willpower for success 8, the bearers Hiking 1, Willpower 4 and Stamina 2 for success 7.

Achan sets a hard pace, hoping to cover 10 x 1.25 = 12.5 tsan, and the weather is hot. He stops at midday, so the total penalty is -2 for pace, -1 for weather, -1 for load for toal -4. Success is down to 4 for the troops, 3 for the bearers

How much exhaustion? Achan -1, his troops -6, -3, -1; the bearers -2, -5, -5, -7, -3, -7, -7, -3: a total of 50 damage. 22 is dealt with by TP, but 28 must be shared out between the 16 men; everyone has a decent nights sleep, recovering 2 points and are OK to carry on the next day.

Achan keeps the hard pace up the next day, but after 7.5 tsan he hits jungle and has his troops put on their medium armour and transfers their packs to the porters giving them a heavy load. If all goes well they will cover 7.5 tsan on road plus 5 x1.25 x.6 = 3.75 tsan of the jungle. However the load has reduced his mens COS to 1, the porters to 2. He will also have to readjust the TP as his guide's local knowledge no longer applies, and he must use his Wilderness survival instead. New TP total is 21.

Achan and his men take a total of 20 damage, the porters 33, total 53! Even so with 21TP only 32 damage is left to share out; everyone gets a good nights rest recovering 2 points and is OK.

At this rate they will cover 6.25 tsan of jungle a day and it will be 3 days or more to their destination - Achan would like to make it in two days, so he ups the pace to Very Hard. the Troops have success 0, the porters 1 - it is not going to be easy. The troops have a good days march with 10 damage total, the porters 23 damage - lots of clearings, no trips or falls, and the party are all making the pace. 

The last day, the troops take 36 damage, the porters 43 for a total of 79. 21 of this is dealth with by TP, leaving 58 between 16 men. Achan decided the porters have had to lug some of the troopers weapons and have all lost 3 HP in exhaustion, his troops have lost two. The march is over, but it was beginning to take its toll.