ARCH - Siege - How to use our resources

[Bob Dewart]

That was suspose to be "aren't as fast" sorry.

Gilli
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From: Bob Dewart <gilli at seacove.net>
To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: ARCH - Siege - How to use our resources


>Greetings and Hi There,
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>To answer this question we need to know a few things:
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>Which type of battle is it?  What is the commander's intent?  How does the
>commander plan to fight the battle?  How might the enemy react?
>
>Plachoya is correct.  Form up into batteries so that you may do continuous
>fire if interdiction is the mission such as helping keep a tower pinned
>down.  Or even a battery of batteries if area interdiction is needed such
as
>breaking up a counter attack.
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>A good thing bad  thing about batteries is that while they are easier to
>defend they are also few targets to attack.
>
>Knowing the answers to the above questions may let the commander use his
>seige engines, depending on type, in an offensive manner; such as moving
>forward an to the flank a bit to set up a support by fire position.  This
>could also serve as an economy of forces in a blocking position.
>
>A tactic I think would work well is to team the engines with the archers.
>At a distance, balistas are still pretty flat trijectory while the archer
>attack more or less from above.  It's hard  to defend  from those two
>attacks at once.
>
>Ofcourse to start with a large number of the engines will probably be
needed
>to do counter battery fire on the opposing engines.
>
>Since our communications on the field are as fast as modern commo,
>somethings need to be worked out in advance (here's where knowing the
>commander's intent comes in).  For example the commander wants to attack
>hard on the right flank.  During the battle a hold is called.  When lay on
>is called every engine and archer fires two missles at that area of the
>enemy line.  If they are too far away to hit that area, say on the other
>side, get as close to that part of the enemy line as they can.  Then they
go
>back  to their missions prior to the hold.  Exception to this would be
those
>units activley involed in counter battery fights when the hold was called.
>
>Gilli
>Who in real life is an instructor at the III Corp Battle Simulation Ceter
on
>Fort Hood Texas.  :)  I like arty (big grin).
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steelquist, John <John.Steelquist at csoconline.com>
>To: 'Ansteorra Archery List' <ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org>
>Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:06 AM
>Subject: ARCH - Siege - How to use our resources
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>
>>Greetings.
>>
>>Here's my first siege engine question:
>>
>>How should we best set-up and use the tremendous siege resources we should
>>have next year?
>>
>>Ulsted
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