> A modified version of a post to the ImperialPBEM list:
>
> I make the body of the empire, a line running approximately from NNW
> to SSE as about 650 miles. "Horizontally", from Doblian to Oraya, it
> measures some 500 miles. (all measurements by eye)
>
> The map itself is about 700 x 550 miles
>
> In the Bronze period, Summer and Akkad were able to
> project force over an area of some 250 x 125 miles; Egypt operated
> strategically over an area of some 600 x 200 miles, call it half the
> map itself. In the Iron age, this reach increased by some 9 times,
> with Rome projecting strategic force across 3000 x 1500 miles, or
> about 11 times the whole Lunar map!!!
>
> Persia managed 2500 miles by 1000 miles, about 6.5 times the map.
The persian empire is propably the best parallel to draw on here.
Then again the bronze age chinise operated armies of several hundreads of thousands, and vast areas of land. My girlfriend isn't here, so I can't ask for the measurements, but I seem to recall that it made the Persian empire look small.
-Adept
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