•Tactical
theme (from about 300 B.C. to 1400 A.D.)
•Light troops (equipped with bows, javelins, light swords,
etc.) perform reconnaissance, screening, and
swirling hit-and-run actions to:
–Unmask enemy dispositions and
activities.
–Cloud/distort own dispositions and
activities.
–Confuse, disorder enemy
operations.
•Heavy troops (equipped with lances, bows, swords, etc.)
protected by armor and shields:
–Charge and smash
thinned-out/scattered or disordered/bunched-up enemy formations
generated by interaction with light troops; or
–Menace enemy formations to
hold them in tight, or rigid, arrays thereby make them
vulnerable to missiles of swirling light troops.
•Light and heavy troops in appropriate combination pursue,
envelop, and mop-up isolated remnants of enemy
host.
•Idea
•Employ maneuver action by light troops with thrust action of
heavy troops to confuse, break-up, and smash enemy
formations.