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=========================+===============================                                     |         At a range of                                      +- |1200 m.|1400 m.|1600 m.|1800 m. +-+-+-+- Platoon (one rank)                   |  4.4  |  3.4  |  2.2  |  1.4 Skirmish line, men at 3-pace intervals| 1.2  |   |   | Platoon in column of fours           |  6.6  |  3.8  |  2.2  |  1.3 Platoon in column of twos            |  5.6  |  3.2  |  1.9  |  1.1 Company column (German column of     |       |       |       |      platoons)                       | 22.0  | 18.0  |  14.0 | 10.0 +-+-+-+-

Lieutenant-General, in his work, ''Schieszlehre für die Infanterie'', p. 117, computes values for the relative vulnerability of the several formations. At a range of 1200 m., purely frontal fire only being considered, we obtain with every 1000 rounds fired with the appropriate elevation, the following number of hits against—

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+=======+===========+==============        | Line. | Column of | Infantry in        |       | platoons. | route column. -+-+-+ Standing | 116  |    160    |      98 Prone   |   20  |     65    |      72 -+-+-+

And against a company deployed in line of platoons:

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+=================+===================+===================        |3 platoons, each |3 platoons, each   |6 sections, each in         | in route column.| in column of twos.| column of twos. -+-+-+- Standing |      57        |        39         |       29 Prone   |       28        |        25         |       14 -+-+-+-