SporeWiki talk:Fiction Universe/Important Topics/Warfare

Just a personal opinion, but I feel this page has far too many generalisations. You do not require ten times the enemy's force to make encircling them effective, as the relative compositions of forces, and indeed the size of the force to be encircled, are both relative to the situation at hand. It is also historically documented in Roman archives that encircling an opponent has proven effective for the numerically inferior force, as it forces the normally more numerous foe to fight with less available soldiers.

Similarly, it is also a significant generalisation to state that you require twice as many forces as your opponent to strike at the rear of the enemy. In the Turkish siege of Malta during the Crusades, a force of two hundred heavy cavalry charged the rear lines of the Turkish invaders, then safely retreated having caused the withdrawal of several thousand janissaries.

One final note, the best way to define "strategy" is the overarching plan to be carried out over the course of the campaign or battle, while a "tactic" is a single action carried out to support the strategy.

-This message by Spriggs077, a.k.a. AGrumpyPanda 09:15, August 22, 2014 (UTC)