dtm: good point...what you are describing are napoleonic era tactics employed by infantry squares, often three ranks deep...as employed by the british infantry against the french cavalry at waterloo...


certainly, the advent of the rifle in the hands of veteran soldiers made cavalry charges against massed infantry a suicide mission...as farnsworth found out the hard way...

Last edited by ed good; 04/29/18 01:16 AM.
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