Anachronisms ?

[Sheogorath]

Doing ANYTHING in tight formation is no easy feat. Especially when some Rusky is inconsiderate enough to shoot at you while you're doing it

[Sir Beane]

Doing ANYTHING in tight formation is no easy feat. Especially when some damn Rusky is inconsiderate enough to shoot at you while you're doing it

It's so mean of them to fire at my soldiers while they're practicing manouvres. Those Russians have no honor.

[CBR]

AFAIK contemporaries thought it took longer to train pikemen than musketeers back in the 16th and 17th century.

Regiments* had different number of companies depending on what nation and what time we are talking about. Companies were also generally an administrative unit and not a battlefield unit, especially in the early/mid 18th century. For combat the battalion would be split up in a certain number of platoons and sometimes men from different companies could be put together.

*ok...the company bit was actually for another thread but who cares.


CBR