Dave, just by examing your post time, compared to Thovexs orginal post, or the fact that Rufio was next to that village and spotted the other Merc at the same time says one of 2 things, either your telling huge lies, or the map is so badly bugged next too that river that your invisible in which case, congratulations and in the interests of fairplay dont use that route again.
1) It was possible for me to reach Prometeus and reinforce him, though I didn't take risks since Strat could be frozen for 10-20 minutes and it would mess things.
2) Rufio is not next to that village. He is ~7km out of it in the opposite direction of me.
3) I was not invisible, Rufio could see me. At least I saw Rufio, maybe he didn't notice me.
4) Look at me, I'm already crossing the bridge to the North and I had only 70 minutes of quick march left when I reached your village, so I was exhausted most of my way back. You move really slow when you're exhausted, how could I move that far if I was doing it at night? Beat that.
5) I went to sleep when you had like 22:30 on your clocks. So please Andswaru, give some respect to your enemies instead of accusing of lying or cheating.