Saturday May 21st Scrimmage vs. the 51st Regiment

[Brookmanz]

Posted here to help us remember.  Reth can edit this post with any additional details.

[Rethmeier]

Thank you Brook. 

[Picklesnipe]

Expected turnout lads?

[Rethmeier]

Not sure exactly.  Somewhere between 25-30 is my best guess.  You never know though.  Could be more or less.

[Azrooh]

Everyone, since this will likely take less time than our normal training, we'll have an Age of False Innocence event right after.
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[Fritz]

Huzzah, I may make it to the LB, altough I'll miss the AoFI event for sure.

[Fritz]

Sorry that I've been late. Altough we lost, I had fun. We should do more such battles.

[Rethmeier]

eh, that one hurt.

[Brookmanz]

It seemed that nobody was really into it, we were just trying to get through it because we said we would.  The steady, accurate volley fire from the 51st was ridiculously effective.  Seems like the musket accuracy gnomes were in the favor of the 51st today.

Plus we lost half of our regiment to the rapture so who can blame us for not having very many people? 

[von_Brennenburg]

They are that effective in shooting because they "split" their companies into 3 parts.

Left, middle and right side and each side aims at the opposing regimental side. So they got a higher chance to hit.

Thats at least what I saw when I was 9 rounds in spec right after the start 

[IndiaQuinn]

They are that effective in shooting because they "split" their companies into 3 parts.

Left, middle and right side and each side aims at the opposing regimental side. So they got a higher chance to hit.

Thats at least what I saw when I was 9 rounds in spec right after the start 

I agree. They basically set up 2 to 3 lines on the hill top or just behind the cresent. Keep in mind that Sunday line battles forces all regiments in a double rank line.

Consider this a training. So it was still fun.

The majority of our company was the Rekruten zug. Of that zug half has had basic training. As it was the 2nd zug it was even harder for them to follow the 1st zug. Anyway it was a good lesson.
It showed them that good spacing is essential for example.

[von_Brennenburg]

Sure it was fun, the flag charge was epic

What I actually meant was, that when you have like 15 guys in one Zug, then the guys standing at the right side shoot at the right guys of the enemy and so on. So they divide their fire and avoid that 2 or more guys shoot at the same guy.

Like this:
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[IndiaQuinn]

Sure it was fun, the flag charge was epic

What I actually meant was, that when you have like 15 guys in one Zug, then the guys standing at the right side shoot at the right guys of the enemy and so on. So they divide their fire and avoid that 2 or more guys shoot at the same guy.

Like this:
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That would only be the case when at "fire at will"
In all other situations the platoon/company leader will choose the target.

[Fritz]

What I actually meant was, that when you have like 15 guys in one Zug, then the guys standing at the right side shoot at the right guys of the enemy and so on. So they divide their fire and avoid that 2 or more guys shoot at the same guy.

We covered this stuff in our old shooting skill trainings too. Maybe we should do them again. Altough they have been considered boring

[von_Brennenburg]

Sure it was fun, the flag charge was epic

What I actually meant was, that when you have like 15 guys in one Zug, then the guys standing at the right side shoot at the right guys of the enemy and so on. So they divide their fire and avoid that 2 or more guys shoot at the same guy.

Like this:
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That would only be the case when at "fire at will"
In all other situations the platoon/company leader will choose the target.

Sure the platoon leader gives the order to shoot at the right/left enemy company but what I mean is that every soldier has to choose a single target for him out of the designated target company.
So when you get the command "Company/Platoon aim at the right -" then our soldiers standing at the right side close to the Lt/OLt aim at the enemies on the right side of the enemy company, the soldiers in the middle aim also at the right company but they pick the enemy soldiers standing in the middle of the right company.

Sorry for my english, I had a long night ;(