Depends on the formation. A wagon is going to be about as wide as a small lorry so advancing shield to shield you'd get four or five. That's going to be pretty slow unless they are well trained so it might be as few as three abrest.
>> The trick
>> would be deploying from that formation to climb the
>> ladders.
>
>I bet!
>
>
>> The Orlanthi could have
>> course confused a Tarshite shieldwall regiment with
>> a phalanx.
>
>The Orlanthi might, I get the impression this PC knows
>better?
>
>> Alternatively Jorkandros could create a vexillia
>> around a
>> hundred of the phalanx to inspire the rest of
>> attacking force.
>
>That's an idea. I like.
It assumes he has a fereshori and banner to form the vexillia. I'm not really sure how common these are.
>> As far as missile fire goes it's mainly a matter of
>> getting
>> the defenders to keep their heads down. Certain
>> individuals do have difficulty with that concept.
>
>ROTFL! This is ironic understatement, right?
I didn't want to exaggerate. :)
>To be fair, most Orlanthi seem to struggle with the
>idea of being unheroic, and on this occasion Kallyr
>did have very good reason to be out in the open. But
>yeah... in general... "illuminate battlefield" isn't
>quite the same as hiding.
>
>Seriously, though, we did establish that the top of
>the Gate can be reached by troll missile fire.
True.
>> That and a lot of hyped
>> up clansfolk standing around doing nothing explains
>> the sortie.
>
>"I'm bored, let's hit something" is no way to plan
>strategy, it has to be said.
I think the leaders (Offir?) decided there was less risk to a sortie with a strictly limited objective was less risky than having warriors poking their heads over the ramparts to see what was going on and some warband taking it into their heads to sortie out themselves.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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