One thing that I got interested in as I went into worldbuilding for my Omniverse Tales was that in the Restoration War before the actual tales start both sides ultimately develop tactics requiring numbers to work but a common misperception of the defeated side starts to show up where it blended http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZergRush and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeHaveReserves where the actual tactics combined numbers with a strategic reserve (which the victorious Restorationists also used) but in a sense of being able to use an older model of weaponry to punch a hole through enemy lines at which point the greater numerical superiority widens the breakthrough for the destruction of enemy troops, designed over a single campaign.
The Restorationists, led by a supersoldier, go into More Dakka + We Have Reserves + Zerg Rush, with the Dakka existing first and allowing them to make up for numerical weakness. By the time the two sides are in the high tide of the war the losing rebellion (unlike the Star Wars rebellion the crudest way to put this one is they thought the existing regime was incompetent and ineffective and so wanted a more efficient regime run by an autocratic military dictatorship instead) has had a civil war of its own which killed off its more able junior officers, and so really *does* end up having to revert to Mass Wave Offensives without any desire to do so.
And the MWOs work against weaker armies earlier in the war but the first time one of them hits the Restorationist Steel Rain there's a homage to the First World War where two survivors of the first wave try to rally everyone else to find they're the only survivors.....followed by the first offensive of the Restorationists. The "Oh Shit" reaction that follows is epic.
And I have an earlier war that preceded the other, the War of the Interregnum, which was won by the very tactics that the losing side of the Restoration War perfected. The problem was that their enemies had both better generals and quite a bit more firepower and far, far better logistics that led them to win battles with armies equal in number to those of the enemy because each Restorationist soldier put effective rounds that were thrice what his enemies could fire back often before his enemies even saw him.....
Where in the War of the Interregnum the large conscript armies provide a means to negate older tactics designed for small-scale, rapid, hard-hitting attacks by professionals which the larger numbers negated all possibility of success and then punched through what was left. Where the older model of firepower-above-manpower favored being a rapier, the Restorationist version is a Bludgeon.
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Date: 10/12/10 13:43 (UTC)The Restorationists, led by a supersoldier, go into More Dakka + We Have Reserves + Zerg Rush, with the Dakka existing first and allowing them to make up for numerical weakness. By the time the two sides are in the high tide of the war the losing rebellion (unlike the Star Wars rebellion the crudest way to put this one is they thought the existing regime was incompetent and ineffective and so wanted a more efficient regime run by an autocratic military dictatorship instead) has had a civil war of its own which killed off its more able junior officers, and so really *does* end up having to revert to Mass Wave Offensives without any desire to do so.
And the MWOs work against weaker armies earlier in the war but the first time one of them hits the Restorationist Steel Rain there's a homage to the First World War where two survivors of the first wave try to rally everyone else to find they're the only survivors.....followed by the first offensive of the Restorationists. The "Oh Shit" reaction that follows is epic.
And I have an earlier war that preceded the other, the War of the Interregnum, which was won by the very tactics that the losing side of the Restoration War perfected. The problem was that their enemies had both better generals and quite a bit more firepower and far, far better logistics that led them to win battles with armies equal in number to those of the enemy because each Restorationist soldier put effective rounds that were thrice what his enemies could fire back often before his enemies even saw him.....
Where in the War of the Interregnum the large conscript armies provide a means to negate older tactics designed for small-scale, rapid, hard-hitting attacks by professionals which the larger numbers negated all possibility of success and then punched through what was left. Where the older model of firepower-above-manpower favored being a rapier, the Restorationist version is a Bludgeon.