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Last Samurai

posted by [personal profile] damerell at 08:54pm on 27/01/2004
It's not brilliant, but it doesn't stink either. Nevertheless, a Sun Tzu Tactics Masterclass:

You and your elite cavalry, heavily armoured, equipped with bows and swords (with which your men are amazingly proficient), are to attack a larger body of unarmoured infantry equipped with firearms and bayonets. Do you do so:

a) through the trees of a forest on a misty day with very poor visibility?

or

b) in broad daylight across a totally empty field with excellent lines of sight?

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posted by [identity profile] mobbsy.livejournal.com at 02:03pm on 27/01/2004
Ooh! I know! I know!

Whatever. You send one group in to take the fire and generally be cannon fodder, and the bulk of the cavalry to wheel round to charge from the rear. The infantry are stupid and won't notice this happening until a bunch of heavy cavalry smash into them.
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posted by [identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com at 03:03pm on 13/02/2004
Form square against cavalry, form line against artillery.

I learnt that from Sharpe.
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 01:08pm on 15/02/2004
Ah, but the Japanese regular army don't have pikes, possibly because in some of the shots they have late c19th bolt-action rifles even though later in the film they're back to muzzle-loaders.
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posted by [identity profile] d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com at 03:11pm on 14/02/2004
Depends when it the film it is ... [grin]
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posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 01:09pm on 15/02/2004
... and through Arkady's photo pages I now know who you are. Hello, there. :-)
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