If you haven’t seen this you might find it interesting. It’s all in French with subtitles. So, you may need to put down your paint brushes to follow. It experiments with what happens when morale fails in a phalanx and one side decides to break and run. It tests this over and over again.
Interesting stuff.
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A French research team from Sur le Champ trained around 200 reenactors to study the crowd dynamics of hoplite warfare and battlefield routs. The results are fascinating—footage like this helps clarify the often vague descriptions left by ancient writers.
In the experiment, some participants were secretly instructed to break and flee at a set moment. Each time, tight formations quickly dissolved into a chaotic yet surprisingly coordinated “chase” phase, with the “victors” scattering to pursue the “retreating” side. |
