>>77473953It's not like specialist units don't exist in reality. Granted, that's also very conditional. Boris' power is good in a brawl, but what about in a life and death fight where the other guy has a bazooka?
Even in medieval times, you had specialist units. More specifically trained and using different weapons, but the overwhelming bulk of the army was still homogenous. Your whole army can't be the faggots riding in the chariot by the enemy front lines harassing them with arrows, for instance.
>>77474009Battle lines still and will always exist. Their form may become obscured, but there is always a line to be held in some manner. It may not be held by lining knights or peasants shoulder to shoulder anymore, but it's held all the same.
In modern times, a lot of warfare is simply information based for such reasons.
Granted, war was always won based on information, but before modern times the ability to gather and pass it was incredilby limited.
