JemmyGreek Navy decides retro is the future
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Question:
using current minimum wages, how much would ot cost to run that ship per km.
Trieme crew: Approx 200
Trieme speed: Approx 10 km/h
Greece minimum wage: About 5€/hour
so a Km would take 6mimutes, so half a euro per crew so about 100€ per km.
Given how strenuous it is to row a trieme, I imagine they would have to pay way more than minimum wage.
anyone knows how it compares when a modern similar sized ship?
Cut costs and use slaves
I used minimum wage, because even with slaves, you will have to pay to feed and house them. and doing will cost. instead of estimating the cost of maintaining a slave, I used minimum wage given that it should be enough to feed/maintain them. and damn, 5euro per hour is so little for such a hard work, it might as well be slavery.
jqubedPlaying the original Civilization in an 8th grade geography elective, me and my partner were laughing seeing a trireme from one of the computer civilizations next to our cruiser. Then the trireme sank our cruiser.
The lower picture shows that they lack a bit of training. I remember how hard it was to properly row an octuple scull. Getting a hundred+ people rowing in sync needs a shipload of discipline…
FauxPseudoI feel like this should have the full crew of each represented so that we know how many people it takes to handle each in a combat situation.