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by barr7430 » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:49 am
Having recently read one of Paddy Griffith's books on ACW tactics the so called 'passage of the lines' was just as much a hit and miss affair in the 1860's as it might have been in the 1680's. Veteran units engaged and under pressure in the frontline often flatly refused to be reinforced or replaced for fear of the chaos that would ensue when the 2nd rank tried to take their place. So, standing and taking more casualties was preferable to being reinforced... sounds like it was not very easy, scientific, certain. Pls ref: Interpenetration rules in both BLB and R2E
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