> Roughly, if you have much more people than guns, these people, however brave, don't have any more guns to man, and making them fight with spears is pointless.

> Roughly, if you have much more people than guns, these people, however brave, don't have any more guns to man, and making them fight with spears is pointless. Russia's experience in WW2 is a counter-example: have a line of 5+ guys, the first guy gets the gun, and the entire group charge forward. When the front man is inevitably shot the second guy picks up the gun and the group continues forward. Having more men allows one to wage a war of attrition. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare Works best when one doesn't care about casualty numbers.