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Travel distances in the Medieval World

The below list is travel distances in an Medieval World. These are assuming dry dirt roads, or paved (flagstone) roads. Difficult terrain such as muddy roads, hills, forests, swamps can easily half or more the actual distance. Refer to your specific game for rules on movement over difficult terrain and modify distances from there.

Artillery – 5 miles
Army with baggage train – 8 miles
Caravan or wagon train – 10 miles
Single wagon – 12 miles
Average Peasant – 13 miles
Militia Soldier – 16 Miles
Regular Infantry Soldier – 18 miles
Elite Soldier – 24 miles
Normal Horse – 21 mile
Calvary – 25 miles
Warhorse – 27 miles
Boat on River – 30 miles
Ship – 111 miles
Galley – 130 miles

New “Nigerian” Scam – American Soldiers Iraq

Just got this in my email:

Important message from an American soldier in Iraq

Good day,

My name is Sgt.Richard Clark, I am an American soldier, I am serving in
the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, as you know we are being
attacked by insurgents everyday and car bombs. We managed to move funds
belonging to Saddam Hussein’s family in 2003. The total amount is US$25
Million dollars in cash, mostly 100 dollar bills, this money has been kept
somewhere outside Baghdad for sometime but with the proposed troop
reduction by president Obama, we are afraid that the money will be
discovered hence we want to move this money to you for safe keeping pending
the completion of our assignment here. You can go to this web link to read
about events that took place then via this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm
we are ready to compensate you with good percentage of the funds, No strings
attached, just for you to help us move it out of Iraq. Iraq is a war zone,so
we plan on using diplomatic means in shipping the money out as military
cargo using diplomatic immunity. If you are interested I will send you the
full details, my job is to find a good partner that we can trust and that
will assist us. Can I trust you? When you receive this letter, kindly send
an e-mail richclark0@live.com signifying your interest including
Your most confidential telephone numbers for quick communication also your
Contact details.

This is risk free.

With regards from,

Sgt.Richard Clark.

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First off, any American Solider shipping money out in these kinds of quantities is going to raise flags, doubly so if they’re sending it as a “diplomatic package.” Which would be impossible to do anyways, at least at a Sergeant’s level. Second, that members of the US Army have been able to keep the existence of $25 million dollars sitting around doing nothing for six plus years is laughable in the extreme.

So if you come across this one, either do some scam busting or mark it as spam and move on.