Question - how many men per mile?

[Jack ONeill]

Hancock, you Magnificent Bastard, you beat me to it. I was reading all this math nonsense and thinking to myself - why don't they just look in Hardees' Tactics? All the information is right there. Good job!

Jack

'course, it helps to have actually had to USE this information, say as a reenacting Officer or NCO. But, lets not go there. :}

[Jim]

2.3 feet per file in game.

-Jim

[Davinci]

2.3 feet per file in game.

-Jim

Well, unless I'm adding this up wrong (highly possible) that comes to the same figure as stated by born2see, and MTG which is 11733 .

But, I think that that would only be for a single file line, a double line would be that figure times two!

Is that correct?

davinci

[born2see]

Wait a minute! MTG, you didn't take into account my doubling the number of men for two ranks. Our numbers are the same!

born2see wrote:
Yes. 5280 /4.5 = 1173 (rounded down) per mile. Times 2 = 2347 * 5 = 11,733 in 5 miles.


Using born2see's numbers: each man width:36" + space between men 18" = 54" /12inches/ft = 4.5 feet.
1 mile = 5280 ft. * 5 = 26400ft in 5 miles.

# of men in 5 miles = 26400/4.5 = 5867 men

No. I said I was done but time heals all wounds. Our numbers, confirmed by MTG's superior education, are for a double line.

B

[Davinci]

1 mile = 5280 ft. * 5 = 26400ft in 5 miles.

# of men in 5 miles = 26400/4.5 = 5867 men.

No. I said I was done but time heals all wounds. Our numbers, confirmed by MTG's superior education, are for a double line.

Understandable, but I was going to just let this post fall into the abyss of darkness within the Internet, until Jim posted.

Somehow the same number is coming up between all of you, but you are using a different scale pertaining to the distance between the men.

But, let’s forget about that for a minute, if each man is equal to three men, and the game is scaled to represent that figure, even with a total count of 5867x3 comes to 17601.

That was really the whole point of this post, fitting the right amount of men within the five miles of terrain.

But, now I have completely confused myself, so I’m going to forget about this topic, instead of resizing all of my sprites again!

davinci

[Marching Thru Georgia]

born2see wrote:

confirmed by MTG's superior education

Yup. I got an A in 5th grade algebra.

[JC Edwards]

Now for a commercial break and station identification.

[born2see]

JC Edwards wrote:

Now for a commercial break and station identification.

No worries JC. Now that Jim has spoken I don't think there's really any more to say.

B

[Davinci]

Yup. I got an A in 5th grade algebra.

You Guys had algebra in school – I don’t remember that!

Now for a commercial break and station identification.

That was funny!

No worries JC. Now that Jim has spoken I don't think there's really any more to say.

How, exactly did you reach that conclusion?

davinci

[born2see]

Davinci wrote:

How, exactly did you reach that conclusion?

Jim has that "Designer" thing next to his name. He knows the spacing.

B