Thread:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/@comment-26084195-20161011170236/@comment-26347028-20161020173232

Edacnik wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

Edacnik wrote:

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Entrenchment is barely a defence against melee units…

Trenches stop cavalry and infantry charges, and this was a tactic used. They make a decent effort to break up the momentum, but melee infantry don't inherently require momentum to work, and spearmwn generally perform better when they're using the momentum of the enemy against themselves.

Trenches work against ranged attacks that aren't on a high arc, and to break up momentum. They do barely anything at all otherwise. No, trenches have been known to keep the enemy at bay. I've read enough history war books to know this to be true.

You said they 'work against ranged attacks?' How does that work? Trenches don't keep the enemy at bay. They break up the momentum of an attack. If the two forces are basically equal in strength, then that's what causes the stalemate.

If you're talking about the First World War, it was the machine gun that caused the stalemate.

For something on a low ballistics arc, having less of a vertical profile helps.