>>64020084
>>64020161
I was thinking the Field of Glory games might be relatively more "accurate" at depicting these battles. These games sort of play like an urban riot except with both sides being the riot police.

>>64020393
A more recent analogy might be to clashes between Japanese student leftists and police over construction projects in the 1960s-1980s. The students organized themselves into units with battering rams:
https://youtu.be/eXjd7GkHKfU

>>64020084
>Usually a battle was decided when one army broke and ran. On the rout most deaths happened, so most of the time quickest or the bravest survived.
I'm interested in the psychology of this. Because an enemy routing is thrilling to the winning side. There's a great sense of euphoria. This is also a phenomenon in urban riots. One of the most dangerous things for the police side is the police panicking and retreating. (Okay we can debate whether that typically counts as a rout or not.) The reason for this is that an angry crowd can suddenly feel a sense of great power. Like, the police show up, and meet an angier-than-expected crowd, and the police get the order from higher up to bug out to protect their officers, and then the situation just explodes / all hell breaks loose because the angry crowd is like AW YEAH DAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN BOUT... NOW IT'S GOIN DOWN. This happened during the L.A. riots:
https://youtu.be/enrAWRoXQVA