The underground railroad

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Having few draft animals, the dwarves of Dran have adopted the flying carpet enchantment to make self-propelled carriages for their underground roads.

The equivalent to the 2-hex carpet is the six-hex carriage. It has an empty weight of 500 pounds and therefore 18 hit points. The solid iron construction gives it 2 points of armor, which doesn't apply to the half-exposed crew and passengers. It is too heavy to lift itself into the air, but it can carry 4k pounds along smooth level roads and 2k pounds along secondary paths. Otherwise operates like a flying carpet.

The 7-hex equivalent enchantment is cast on a 10-hex (use the elephant counter) wagon with an empty weight of 2000 pounds (36 hit points, 6 points of armor all around except if arrow slits are hit at -6 DX) that carries 12k pounds itself and tows an unenchanted but otherwise identical wagon that also carries 12k pounds along main roads. The trailer is left behind to travel secondary roads.