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** While the typical horse can gallop at close to 50 km/h ... horses aren't marathon runners. A horse cannot gallop all day with no breaks, or it will die from the strain. Any time a messenger's riding at full pelt, they're generally switching horses out every X number of miles or so (Pony Express, Mongol Yam Network). An average horse can travel maybe 50-60 km in a day without resting, and even an endurance competitor will top out at 160 and need to rest for a day after. Red Hare's ability to put in five times that much speaks either to its speed or its endurance!
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** While the typical horse can gallop at close to 50 km/h ... horses aren't marathon runners. A horse cannot gallop all day with no breaks, or it will die from the strain. Any time a messenger's riding at full pelt, they're generally switching horses out every X number of miles or so (Pony Express, Mongol Yam Network). An average horse can travel maybe 50-60 km in a day without resting, and even an endurance competitor will top out at 160 and need to rest for a day after. Red Hare's ability to put in five three times that much speaks either to its speed or its endurance!
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** While the typical horse can gallop at close to 50 km/h ... horses aren't marathon runners. A horse cannot gallop all day with no breaks, or it will die from the strain. Any time a messenger's riding at full pelt, they're generally switching horses out every X number of miles or so (Pony Express, Mongol Yam Network). An average horse can travel maybe 50-60 km in a day without resting, and even an endurance competitor will top out at 160 and need to rest for a day after. Red Hare's ability to put in five times that much speaks either to its speed or its endurance!
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* Red Hare is said to be capable of travelling 1000 ''li'' in one day. A kilometer is roughly two ''li'', so Red Hare should be capable of travelling 500 kilometers in one day. Divide 500 by 24 and you get roughly 21; in other words Red Hare's top speed is about 21 km/h, which is actually pretty pathetic for a horse. Is this a case of WritersCannotDoMath or were horses just way slower back in the day?
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** Maybe as in, he made the swords using an older design rather than using the design common for that period and age?
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** He also basically made the same mistake Napoleon did: he underestimated just how badly an army is weakened by unfamiliar climate and fatigue. His army was made up of Northerners, who were unused to the warm weather and had never been on a ship before. This combined with tropical diseases (against which they had no immunity) and weariness due to the long campaign meant his army was at only a tiny fraction of its effective strength. Had he taken steps to counteract these factors, things might not have gone so badly for him.
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** He also basically made the same mistake Napoleon did: would: he underestimated just how badly an army is weakened by unfamiliar climate and fatigue. His army was made up of Northerners, who were unused to the warm weather and had never been on a ship before. This combined with tropical diseases (against which they had no immunity) and weariness due to the long campaign meant his army was at only a tiny fraction of its effective strength. Had he taken steps to counteract these factors, things might not have gone so badly for him.
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* Chi Bi (or the Red Cliffs as it's evidently known outside of DynastyWarriors) seems like such a weird OutOfCharacterMoment for Cao Cao. He goes from teaching Yuan Shao that numbers won't make up for inferior strategy in combat to being taught basically the same lesson from Zhou Yu. What's up with that?
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* Chi Bi (or the Red Cliffs as it's evidently known outside of DynastyWarriors) VideoGame/DynastyWarriors) seems like such a weird OutOfCharacterMoment for Cao Cao. He goes from teaching Yuan Shao that numbers won't make up for inferior strategy in combat to being taught basically the same lesson from Zhou Yu. What's up with that?
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** Said blacksmith must have been an expert in the DayOldLegend!
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** Clearly, you start with ancient metal.
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* Uh, a question for the blacksmith who made the Peach Garden trio their weapons: how in the holy moon do you ''make'' 'ancient swords'?
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** The way I looked at it, Cao Cao sort of made the right moves to counteract his weakness in naval warfare. He even wrote off an enemy fire attack because he knew the winds would only send the fire back onto their own fleet. Honestly, he lost because of the winds blowing in a different direction than he knew they would. Honestly, would you have foresaw that move either?
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*** As importantly, Zhou Yu took action against the steps that Cao Cao ''did'' attempt to counteract these weaknesses, such as [[spoiler:his FeedTheMole plot to get Cao Cao's "local admirals" executed]], while the entire "chain the ships" plot was a reaction to the unfamiliarity of Cao Cao's northern troops with naval warfare.
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** He also basically made the same mistake Napoleon did: he underestimated just how badly an army is weakened by unfamiliar climate and fatigue. His army was made up of Northerners, who were unused to the warm weather and had never been on a ship before. This combined with tropical diseases (against which they had no immunity) and weariness due to the long campaign meant his army was at only a tiny fraction of its effective strength. Had he taken steps to counteract these factors, things might not have gone so badly for him.
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** It's hard not to bask in the glory of a million man army and believe that you can rest safely in the safety of numbers and experience.
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* Chi Bi (or the Red Cliffs as it's evidently known outside of DynastyWarriors) seems like such a weird OutOfCharacterMoment for Cao Cao. He goes from teaching Yuan Shao that numbers won't make up for inferior strategy in combat to being taught basically the same lesson from Zhou Yu. What's up with that?
