Timeline for How Many Soldiers are Needed to Patrol/Defend a Medieval Wall?
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| May 11, 2020 at 17:04 | vote | accept | FlyingLemmingSoup | ||
| May 10, 2020 at 17:05 | comment | added | Keith Morrison | Your head/tail ratio isn't quite the same in a patrolling/guarding situation. You can have troops whose primary assignment during battle is in the rear on the wall, so long as the expectation is that their job is to raise the alarm, not necessarily actually fight against an incursion. For instance, if you have some kind of artillery such as trebuchets or whatever, part of their crews' duties might include standing guard on the wall in a sector near their equipment, so that if an actual alarm is raised they swap places with on-call troops and get to their artillery piece. | |
| May 10, 2020 at 9:15 | history | answered | Stephen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |