River Travel

[ogarrr]

Hi, on Reddit I spotted that River Travel would be a thing for the Norse.

Presumably this won't be attached to religion, seeing as river travel being a religious doctrine was always silly.

Technology would be my preferred option, with culture being secondary (the fact that the Rus converting loses their ability to send soldiers along their most important trade route was always... interesting...)

As far as I'm aware, there is not Christian scripture that condemns transporting soldiers along a river as un-Christian.

 

[raven63]

I wish other rivers were navigable as well. For example, the Nile played such a key role in Egypt. Essentially offsetting the large distances by allowing a centralized army to mobilize quickly anywhere along the river. The river Tigris played such an important role in the internal wars of the Abbasids, since it connected the major cities mosul baghdad and basra, again making it possible to control all of them via a centralized force. I suspect other rivers played equally important roles else where.

At least some of these effects should be represented in my opinion.