Tactical theme · about 300 BC to 1400 AD

• Light troops (equipped with bows, javelins, light swords, etc.) perform reconnaissance, screening, and swirling hit-and-run actions to:
  • Unmask enemy dispositions and activities.
  • Cloud/distort own dispositions and activities.
  • Confuse, disorder enemy operations.
• Heavy troops (equipped with lances, bows, swords, etc.) protected by armor and shields:
  • Charge and smash thinned-out/scattered or disordered/bunched-up enemy formations generated by interaction with light troops; or
  • Menace enemy formations to hold them in tight, or rigid, arrays thereby make them vulnerable to missiles of swirling light troops.
• Light and heavy troops in appropriate combination pursue, envelop, and mop up isolated remnants of enemy host.