Moving People Around on A Battlefield is Hard, Part II: Wedges

No, not potato wedges. I know we’re all hungry but bear with me. Remember the previous post on changing formations between the line and the column/file? More specifically, this illustration on what happens when a line attempts to march forwards without redeploying into a file?

You might have noticed that the three figures in the centre were forming into a wedge. Indeed, this is what often happens when a line has to travel forwards a considerable distance without stopping to dress the formation — it tends to break up into a number of smaller wedge-like clumps, as shown in this illustration starting from a similar situation but taken one step further:

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