If, for instance, only a hundred men were allowed in a single line for a battle in the mountains—what happens if one side has a single unit that has a hundred men in it? Melee combat happens between two units in the same line of battle; how does the game allow any melee combat with that unit?
The Records (
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Records_of_BattleMaster#Characters) show that the largest unit ever was 320 men. I would say the smallest width possible could be around 600 men. Then there would always be room for more than one unit, and even with smaller units this corresponds to 12 units of 50 men each, hardly a blob.
I think the goal here would be to replicate Agincourt, not Thermopylae.
