>Me> >A cluster of yurts is by no means a mobile defended group, the
> > >Rathori on foot can cover greater distances per day (50 km)
> > >than the CharUn rider (30 km)
>I can't believe that somebody on foot is swifter than somebody on horse
>(even without remounts). Can it be that here movement on paved ways is
>compared against movement in rugged terrain?
No. The question was not about speed but about stamina, or rather the energy efficiency of bipedalism over quadrupedalism. Although horses are definitely faster than humans, they cannot travel as far per day and soon the human can overtake them.
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