| | Belle Alliance| 2.4.0 Change of direction | | 2.4.1 Main rule | Change of direction constitutes part of marching and is carried out by means of wheeling at a fixed point at the flank of the front rank, by rotation on a fixed point at the middle of the front rank, or by inversion in place. During a bound where a unit is moving at the charge, ref. 2.3.3, it may carry out change of direction only once and only by means of wheeling within a limit of 20 degrees. This does not apply to forced action, and further wheeling may be carried out during continued advance, ref. 4.1.4. | | 2.4.2 Time expenditure | Wheeling and rotation is conducted at half the rate of march. This does not apply to skirmish lines or staff figures. The distance to be covered for a rotation or wheeling of 90 degrees is respectively 3/4 and 3/2 times the frontage of the unit. Inversion in place does not take time, but a unit may only carry out inversion in place once during a bound. This does not apply to forced action, and artillery does not count an inversion in place that was carried out as part of unlimbering or limbering, ref. 2.2.4. | | 2.4.3 Columns | Columns of attack and columns of march do not swing out their tail end during wheeling, and instead the wheeling is conducted by each rank in turn at the same fixed point. Only the front rank will use the half rate of march during the wheeling. The limitation to 20 degrees of wheeling for units at the charge and continued advance, ref. 2.4.1 and 4.1.4, is to be measured in relation to the direction of the front rank, and the tail end of a column may thus complete an ongoing larger wheeling although the unit commences a charge or continued advance. Columns of march may not carry out rotation. For columns of march on road, the half rate of movement during wheeling does not apply, and no limitation on wheeling applies for the charge or continued advance. | Contents
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