Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2021 15:30:00 GMT
As promised, here is another set of graphics showing the movement of Custer's battalion from Ford D to its destruction. Unlike the other one, where I started from vicinity of Ford D, I actually started from the unit's positions at destruction and attempted to work backwards. This time, I did not put in the ghost icons showing where they were nor the routes they traveled.
Again, this is conjecture on my part, except for the final positions which I think are accurate, but it is of course open to correction. I was trained to actually think this way by one of the S-3s I worked for to think of how you want your forces to be deployed once they take the objective (or settle onto the final defensible terrain in your sector) and then work backwards. It can be confusing.
Again, Chuck as a light infantrymen would have a different approach than me and AZ with his experience on horse and repeated trips would likely vary too. My perspective might well change after I get to the battlefield.
This deployment makes little or no tactical sense to me. The battalion is much too strung out at the end and invites destruction. If I was really talented, I'd have a bunch of little red dots moving around the slides showing the Indians swarming the battalion and chopping it up.
One possibility, which I don't think makes any sense, is they were trying to get back to the vicinity of Reno Hill and following their path more or less backward. But if they were coming under increasing pressure from the south, why would they try to press in that direction, especially since they had no way of knowing if Reno was attempting to push toward them.
But if they were being pressured from the North, then the destruction sequence and flight would not have the southern movement.
If they were pressured from both ends, then the destruction would have moved toward the center, but then why not 'form square' vicinity Custer Hill and mass the battalion to concentrate their firepower on the enemy.
Other than the Indian accounts, I don't think there is anyway to solve the conumdrum, since they too seem to fit the South to North Destruction of the battalion.
Again, this is conjecture on my part, except for the final positions which I think are accurate, but it is of course open to correction. I was trained to actually think this way by one of the S-3s I worked for to think of how you want your forces to be deployed once they take the objective (or settle onto the final defensible terrain in your sector) and then work backwards. It can be confusing.
Again, Chuck as a light infantrymen would have a different approach than me and AZ with his experience on horse and repeated trips would likely vary too. My perspective might well change after I get to the battlefield.
This deployment makes little or no tactical sense to me. The battalion is much too strung out at the end and invites destruction. If I was really talented, I'd have a bunch of little red dots moving around the slides showing the Indians swarming the battalion and chopping it up.
One possibility, which I don't think makes any sense, is they were trying to get back to the vicinity of Reno Hill and following their path more or less backward. But if they were coming under increasing pressure from the south, why would they try to press in that direction, especially since they had no way of knowing if Reno was attempting to push toward them.
But if they were being pressured from the North, then the destruction sequence and flight would not have the southern movement.
If they were pressured from both ends, then the destruction would have moved toward the center, but then why not 'form square' vicinity Custer Hill and mass the battalion to concentrate their firepower on the enemy.
Other than the Indian accounts, I don't think there is anyway to solve the conumdrum, since they too seem to fit the South to North Destruction of the battalion.
