Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #16 - An Army Marches on it's Stomach

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Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from worldbuilding@worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 馃榾


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The prompt this week is - An Army Marches on it's Stomach

This was a saying attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte. How is logistics handled in your setting ? Do tribes strip the countryside like locusts as they pass ? Are there complex logistics chains for armies, navies, air and space forces ? What happens when the supply chain breaks down or is interrupted by enemy action ? Is there a difference between logistics in peacetime and wartime ?

Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from worldbuilding@worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

  • Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
  • Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
  • Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
  • Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
  • Prompt replies can be any length.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.

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