My feeling is that once your road network is full of steps, developing wheels isn't of much utility.
'The wheel, the wheel' ignores that there were plenty of European scenarios where people moved goods from wheeled carts to boats or pack animals. Wheels were useful under limited circumstances. Only once you get to large-scale road building and engineering feats do wheeled vehicles become the transport mechanism of choice, and that's only if you count railways.
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Date: 2021-08-04 10:30 pm (UTC)'The wheel, the wheel' ignores that there were plenty of European scenarios where people moved goods from wheeled carts to boats or pack animals. Wheels were useful under limited circumstances. Only once you get to large-scale road building and engineering feats do wheeled vehicles become the transport mechanism of choice, and that's only if you count railways.