Hi SYED,
Canals are the nearest thing Safehold has at the moment to a high speed route of advance, as RFC has said.
You're quite right that Dohlar can't rearm another army Ahlverez's size immediately, since their rifle production may only be a thousand per month, but they do have some backlog from shipping what TMHoGatA required, which should have been sent a couple month's ago, but what they did have was already sent to Rychtyr.
Stripping the navy would help but not enough fast enough; if Thirsk has 75 war galleons with 200 rifles each (we're not sure he does) that's only 15,000 [~13 regiments] and still several 5days away from helping Rychtyr, Ahlverez or fortifying some place behind them.
Logistically, I'm pretty sure Dohlar has enough barges etc, but not enough time since Evrytyn is 1250 miles away as the wyvern flies, closer to 2000 miles by canal and river assuming connecting high roads, so marching directly might actually be faster.
But that's complicated by the fact there seems to be no canal link between Gorath City or its river and and the border canals, a remarkably glaring error that could hurt Dohlar, possibly mortally.
While it might be a defensive measure, such a deliberate failure has hurt the Dohlaran economy for centuries and is rather surprising, so it might be just a glitch in the map.
DE won't assault Evrytyn, but sidestep and threaten its supply line, while Ahlverez won't attempt to attack Hanth from the rear unless he wants to lose most of what's left of his army.
I doubt Ahlverez will go south because Somyr has been destroyed, but the semaphore route through Silkiah mike be the means to letting Gorath and Zion know he made it; so marching east south of the Seridahn river then north to Evrytyn makes the most sense to me.
Such a long route could mean DE makes it to Evrytyn sooner, and by taking control of the locks in Rychtyr's rear using cavalry and scout snipers etc, compel him to surrender or retreat before Ahlverez can 'reinforce' him.
At which point, Dohlar might surrender or seek terms to avoid being sliced into worthless indefensible pieces.
Now that would tick Clyntahn off.
L
SYED wrote:They must sent weapons and men to the land border immeadiatly, but their armories were emptied to army the harchongs, and their avaiable men are in the navy. The only way to quickly reinforce the border is to strip men and weaponry from the nazy on a large scale.
DO they even have the canal boats to move the men, and what is the capacity of hteir canal system? That would be an issue concerning how many men and weapons can be sen the quickest. IT would take longer to simply march the men.
The allied forces are concentrating on two things, chasing the enemy, and removing their logistics and fortifications. While it is possible that the retreating army may out run their pursuers. Can they get to Evrytyn before te advancing forces, while a ruin, any advance in or out of dohlar depends on that canal access, so will be a priority. i doubt they could hold back the enemy, they have little or no supplies left, so escape is possible not really in them for another holding action.
