Tactics for Dummies: Moving People Around on A Battlefield is Hard, Part III: Tactical Articulation

The previous posts in this series (parts one and two) have mostly been discussing how to handle single groups of fighting personnel. But sometimes the task at hand requires us to split the force into two or more smaller elements, and now we’re going to take a look (heavily simplified, as usual) into how it can be done.

Now imagine you’re the leader of this small group of combat personnel. Let’s mark you off from the rest of the people in this group as the gold/yellow pip.

Yes, yes, some of you might argue that you’re not stupid enough to volunteer for such an assignment, but bear with me for the moment.

Now assume there’s a hill in the distance that you’d like to occupy, but you don’t think you’d need the whole force to do it. So you grab a few people and lead them to that hill.

So far so good, right? But then you go back to the place where you left the rest of the group . . . .