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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 257778" data-attributes="member: 758">Well since i was reading Caeser's Legions recommended by SHARK i got to thinking on some mass combat and how people deal with them as far as tactics. I for one like to use minatures and draw out on a board what goes were and how each army does what. I was wondering if anyone else has some tactics they want to share from either reading, experience, or other wise. Here is one I gleaned from watching many thousands of hours on the history channel. The Zulu nation led by Shaka Zulu in the early colonial days of Britan had a simple idea he called the Bull's Horns ( i think). The plan was simple, have 3 formations 1 in the center 1 on each flank. The goal was to move up the center drawing in the forces as the bull's head whilst the flanking forces moved forward and to either side moving wide. Doing this quickly with infantry (the zulu's had short spears and no aritllery) they were able to bottle up the forces in the middle using the brunt bull's head while the 2 flanking forces came from the side and behind in a pincer formation sealing the enemy forcing the enemy to fight on all fronts effectively cutting off retreat and encircling the enemy. They used this hundreds of times  and as most of the infantry was fast, strong, and mobile it worked as planned. I have used this on my pc's and they have found that spreading out their forces stops this but it also leaves them able to be surrouned individually and seperated.Modern Combat using vehicles: Norma Schwarzkopf deivised a plan to lure the iraqi forces along the border of Saudi arabia using massive propoganda, rogue training and deceptive tactics. He threw a small contigent of armored vehicles into the west side while sweeping along with a massive force along the rear of the country sending in small (hundred or so) contigents into the country. The tactics were to out manuever and come from the south instead of the west as the iragis had thought we would do from having training missions that were basically troops storming the beaches simultaed to a amphibious invasion. By cutting off the supply chain and moving inward the Allied forces cut off the iraquis and surrounded them casuing massive surrendering and very lil allied casulties.I am interested to see what everyone else has to say and how they have done mass combat and tactics they have used.</blockquote>

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