Kazarogkai wrote:Crookfur wrote:Hihgly variable and different in every army and the terms are often all over the place, in british use A company was the administrative subsection of the battalion but the platoon was it tactical role.
However as a simplified general a platoon was half a company and a section was half a platoon
As such at max strangth of 1000men a british battalion would look soemthign like:
10 companies of 100 men each
20 Sub-divsions of 50 (what we would call a platoon these days)
40 sections of 25
so your basic answer is about 50 and about 25
10 separate companies seems a little high unless were talking about the mongols here with their base-10 loving selves. I had though that a commander should not command more than 5 sub units was common knowledge by the time of the Napoleonic era which I took into account when coming up with my military organization.
A British battalion was 8 line companies plus grenadier and light companies. It would typically split into two grand divisions.
8 was the more typical number of companies in a European battalion.
