by John Cook
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I'm very pleased that Keith Webb has found my articles on drill regulations interesting. It's always useful to get some 'feedback'. Space and time are very important. Without the former, it can be quite impossible to conduct a particular conversion. As for the latter, I recommend that Keith obtains a copy of George Nafziger's Imperial Bayonets, which includes a time and motion study of the principal drill regulations of the major powers. However, although George Nafziger's methodology is an excellent way of demonstrating the respective advantages and disadvantages of a particular set of regulations it is, of course, the counsel of perfection being based on units at or near full strength. The strength of a unit is a vital factor in determining speed of conversion because the lower the strength, the narrower the frontage of sub-units and the shorter the deploying intervals between them. These will decrease the overall frontage of a battalion in line and length of a battalion in column respectively, with a commensurate reduction in distance over which their sub-units have to march in order to deploy/ploy. As for the video, tape the 'Trooping the Colour' ceremony. You will see most of the basic evolutions being performed at this ceremony, which gives a good impression of how a Napoleonic battalion sized unit would have looked and moved. More ADC Back to Table of Contents -- First Empire #37 Back to First Empire List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1997 by First Empire. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com |
Sex, Drill and Video Tapes (well, the second two anyway).