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Making the infantry of Arashi
Charon:
This one is a bit more distinct.
http://gunsoficarus.com/world/history/a-compendium-of-dust/
Lord Dick Tim:
So we have a long time of continued war, a chance for reforms to happen, but centered in this idea that Arashi is a loosely organized league of independent states.
Kind of suggests we would have just about everything and the kitchen sink happening at once. Old companies that have traditions dating for hudnreds of years, rebel desert nomads using skirmishes tactics, down to independent cells and loosely organized militias.
So wide perspective, rag tag, closer perspective may still have some cohesion, but it would be highly situational, there would be an ordered sequence of events that led to the construction of any one entity, that would not likely be shared with a neighboring city.
Starting to sound more like a rebel coalition, with all the squabbling and in fighting that comes with it. A strong unifying military arm would be necessary to weld together any kind of meaningfull resistance against a determined foe, unless the desert was truly just that brutal and it's occupants just as wicked.
Lord Dick Tim:
Found a good write up that drives the point home on how traumatic and horrible trench warfare is.
http://i.imgur.com/xFXldwD.png
Ofiach:
--- Quote from: Pickle on April 15, 2013, 08:37:22 am ---Were fire teams part of the organisation of any organised military force in the early twentieth century? - we are supposed to be closer to WW1, than C21 asymmetrical post-colonial NDYPOMP exercises. There is no Treaty of Versailles in the canon.
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To go beyond the wiki references SMDH. Fire teams have been around since the invention of an organized fighting force. Certain nation states did it "bigger" than others as in Roman phalanxes and cavalry charges. Also think about Han dynasty unit tactics, the entire military could break down into small units able to flank and spank on its own. Now as weapons and communication got better unit numbers were lowered to increase effectiveness. Straight line warfare being the exception as a retrogression in battle tactics.
Take the revolutionary war as a prime example, guerrilla warfare with small scale units decimated larger units. These groups may not have been designated "squads" and "fire teams" but the operated in a very similar and supportive manner, most notably during ambushes. One squad lays fire from one direction then another squad from another direction then the squads retreat with certain elements laying cover fire for the retreating elements.
Also if you want the "official" version of current squad based tactics and their evolution check out some marine handbooks. Maybe even the French Foreign Legion handbooks. Never got ahold of S.A.S. handbooks myself but I'm sure they would have interesting sources for their development. Think how the Russians fought the Germans. etc. etc. While not always called "fireteams" the idea has been around since Bows and Arrows.
Wiki referencing never has the full information and half the time the information there is plain wrong.
As for trench warfare in this world I don't see that working at all. Trench warfare worked because bombs couldn't find the trenches reliably. Now think about a slower moving balloon craft manually dropping munitions on a trench in the earth. Bad day for anyone in a trench. Slit trenches are a different story and could provide plenty of cover from dumb munitions, but the trench warfare everyone thinks about would be like digging your own mass grave with the kinds of weapons in this world.
As for the whole story idea. You sir, are damn good.
Charon:
Wiki referencing works just fine, so long as you check the sources on the bottom of the page. Check your facts and you're fine.
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