The Age of the Andulus

You have to remember, as a soldier you are never going to know what's happening except in your little area. If people around you are doing badly, you're going to run to save your skin. People see you running and they run and soon everyone is fleeing. Battle over.

Muslim generals liked to set up on hills to direct battles, but in the age of hand-to-hand combat and slow communication battles will still usually end relatively quickly and with one side panicking first and the other running up casualty numbers in the pursuit.

I will have to remember that for updates involving battles.
 
You have to remember, as a soldier you are never going to know what's happening except in your little area. If people around you are doing badly, you're going to run to save your skin. People see you running and they run and soon everyone is fleeing. Battle over.

Muslim generals liked to set up on hills to direct battles, but in the age of hand-to-hand combat and slow communication battles will still usually end relatively quickly and with one side panicking first and the other running up casualty numbers in the pursuit.

But skilled or at least charismatic leaders were be able to stop some flow of panick, and to redirect charges.

It's why the Battle of Guadalete lasted, so its said, 2 days. If you have someone with less important numbers but having the right position, he would have a far less active strategy at first.

Banners, or even trumpet-like were often used for communication and were kind of designated targets. Arabo-Muslims from the Umayyad era had a lot of banners in battle for, partially, this reason.

As XanXar wanted to devellop a vassalic based tactic for armies, it's both an advantage and an issue.
It would force a "decentralized" command, where a leader seeing the battle isn't going to its best interests, could decide to flee the battle simply and purely and let its suzerain deal with it.

BUT, this decentralized command allow more reactive units and quick tactics decision on precise points.
 
But skilled or at least charismatic leaders were be able to stop some flow of panick, and to redirect charges.

It's why the Battle of Guadalete lasted, so its said, 2 days. If you have someone with less important numbers but having the right position, he would have a far less active strategy at first.

Banners, or even trumpet-like were often used for communication and were kind of designated targets. Arabo-Muslims from the Umayyad era had a lot of banners in battle for, partially, this reason.

As XanXar wanted to devellop a vassalic based tactic for armies, it's both an advantage and an issue.
It would force a "decentralized" command, where a leader seeing the battle isn't going to its best interests, could decide to flee the battle simply and purely and let its suzerain deal with it.

BUT, this decentralized command allow more reactive units and quick tactics decision on precise points.

Thanks. So LSCatilina, what did you think of the last two chapters. Are they realistic in your opinion?
 
Thanks. So LSCatilina, what did you think of the last two chapters. Are they realistic in your opinion?

Boah. There were less about reality than scenery in my opinion. I like them.

For the peace treaty, as you said he didn't had any right to do such. It's one of the part I think it's the most unlikely.

Another point, why did they passed by Gibraltar and going to Cadix? As they already have southern harbours and Murcia, more likely to make a safe landing there, and then to advance towards Cordoba.

And for the choice of a wali, it's not a father/son position. It would have more likely stopped the advance of Umayyads to allow the nobles to choose between them someone able.

Also Count Cassius wouldn't have been there, most likely. Busy with Umayyads in the Ebre valleys plus likely Cantabrians, Vascons or even Septimanian raids...

It's a personal opinion but maybe you rush your updated a bit too much. Maybe letting yourself more time to making it could resolve some points.
Now, I'm not sure the advice of making slower your updates from someone that didn't made one for his own TL since ages is really useful.
 
Boah. There were less about reality than scenery in my opinion. I like them.

For the peace treaty, as you said he didn't had any right to do such. It's one of the part I think it's the most unlikely.

Another point, why did they passed by Gibraltar and going to Cadix? As they already have southern harbours and Murcia, more likely to make a safe landing there, and then to advance towards Cordoba.

And for the choice of a wali, it's not a father/son position. It would have more likely stopped the advance of Umayyads to allow the nobles to choose between them someone able.

Also Count Cassius wouldn't have been there, most likely. Busy with Umayyads in the Ebre valleys plus likely Cantabrians, Vascons or even Septimanian raids...

It's a personal opinion but maybe you rush your updated a bit too much. Maybe letting yourself more time to making it could resolve some points.
Now, I'm not sure the advice of making slower your updates from someone that didn't made one for his own TL since ages is really useful.

Alright, I'll take that in to account. That being said, I will most likely slow down on the updates.
 
If I'm leaving or rebooting this, I'm going to miss this Timeline, it is my first after all. If not, as God-Eater of Marshes, said ''It has mad potential", which I hope it can live up to. If I choose to leave it, however, it was still a great writing experience.
 
But skilled or at least charismatic leaders were be able to stop some flow of panick, and to redirect charges.

It's why the Battle of Guadalete lasted, so its said, 2 days. If you have someone with less important numbers but having the right position, he would have a far less active strategy at first.

Banners, or even trumpet-like were often used for communication and were kind of designated targets. Arabo-Muslims from the Umayyad era had a lot of banners in battle for, partially, this reason.

As XanXar wanted to devellop a vassalic based tactic for armies, it's both an advantage and an issue.
It would force a "decentralized" command, where a leader seeing the battle isn't going to its best interests, could decide to flee the battle simply and purely and let its suzerain deal with it.

BUT, this decentralized command allow more reactive units and quick tactics decision on precise points.
Skilled or charismatic leaders also tend to attract better subordinates. There are exceptions. If the army is too big or the field too small for everyone to fight at once, or if the auxiliary units flee but the quality troops don't for instance. Still, having the winning side suffer a +50% casualty rate is stretching things in my opinion.

XanXar if you reboot the timeline, make sure you have the image links correct. None of the images except the wiki-battle boxes you uploaded are viewable to me.
 
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