Re: MEPBM: When can an army force their way past another army

From: v011l6fc@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (DAVE ROSSELL)

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 03:59:00 +0000

As an aside, I believe that it's impossible to overrun an army with more than
900 troops in it, and I think the ratio is less than 10:1, although maybe 10:1
in strength points might be right.

In article <329a3f$dm2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, wang@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Wei) writes...
>Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM> writes:
>
>>In article <eichmann.41.776451575@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de>,
>>Holger Eichmann <eichmann@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I want to stop an enemy army (around 900 HC, 1000 HI) with a part of
>>>my troops. Does anybody knows how many heavy infantry I need for this
>>>task? I fear, if I send only 100 HI, that the enemy army forces its way
>>>past my troops and rout them.
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help
>
>This is all hearsay but from several sources (not connected to GSI tho).
>I've heard that only numbers matter, and something like a 10:1 or better
>ratio will overrun your army.  So I would send at the very minimum 200
>troops, and probably more like 400.
>
>	Wei
>
>>I would expect such a force would walk over 100 HI without even noticing
>>them (but you would lose the 100 HI and their commander).  I don't have
>>hard data, but have heard that 500 HI is the minimum to have good
>>expectation of stopping a large enemy army.  Anyone know more?
>
>>- Patrick McGehearty
>>  patrick@convex.com
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References

MEPBM: When can an army force their way past another army
eichmann@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de (Holger Eichmann)
Tue, 09 Aug 1994 16:59:35 +0000
Re: MEPBM: When can an army force their way past another army
Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM>
Tue, 09 Aug 1994 22:18:04 +0000
Re: MEPBM: When can an army force their way past another army
wang@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Wei)
Wed, 10 Aug 1994 01:21:51 +0000