Hello Daniel,
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Sometimes I run these crazy calculations: how much modern firepower
would be just enough to turn the odds in a classic battle? At
Thermopilae, I think two Vickers with enough ammo would have been
just about enough. Also at the Lord of the Rings 2 night castle
defense, one machine gun would have sufficed (better protection and
fewer assailants).
Andrei
You mean the battle of Helm's Deep? I think you'd need more than one
machine gun. If the wall had held and the orcs had been forced to
come up the front ramp, then it might have been enough... but the bomb
Saruman gave them took out the wall meaning that you'd have two
streams of Orcs coming at you.
I reckon a machine gun covering the main entrance and perhaps some
razorwire and flamethrowers inside the wall from the breech. That'll
learn 'em.
-- Daniel
My current martial speculation involves David Weber's Honor Harrington series.
Frankly either Weber is a paragon of literary restraint or he sucks as a
military planner. I can't read his stuff for more than a few hours without
spotting stuff that the characters should be doing. That said; the man Can
Tell A Good Story!
