ClawofBeta Wrote:I suppose WW2 doesn't count?
[color="#cc8899"]It can, given that tactics used during combat are by now starting to become dated as technology changes. I'm mostly interested in older time periods, but I suppose it works, if only for things like how the war was fought against Japan, where the US had to employ far different tactics than in previous conflicts. Same goes for Korea and Vietnam.
Interesting tidbit about cannons when fired against infantry formations (though fairly obvious if one thinks about it) - firing at diagonals in order to maximize the number of people hit with the ball yielded devastating results (when the ball was fired with minimal arc)
LONG arcticle Wrote:"To give an idea of the power of a single shot, it is recorded that one ball killed 33 fully armored Spanish heavy cavalry during the enfilading artillery fire at Ravenna."
That's 1 ball. Against 33 heavily armored men on heavily armored horses. And it KILLED THEM ALL.[/COLOR]