Table 5: Obstacles and cover |
Element | Obstacle | Cover |
Hill layer less than 5 cm wide | I | - |
Hill layer less than 2 cm wide | II | - |
Hill layer less than 1 cm wide | III | - |
Shrubs, fences and hedge rows | I | - |
Waterways less than 1 cm wide, ditches and fords | I | - |
Waterways between 1 and 5 cm wide | II | - |
Wood edge, hedges and dikes | I | I |
Woods, apart from wood edge | - | I |
Holstein hedges | II | I |
Walls less than 1 m tall | I | I |
Walls between 1 and 2 m tall | II | II |
Walls more than 2 m tall | III | III |
Buildings of wood and with mud-walls | - | I |
Buildings of stone | - | II |
Especially strong buildings of stone, including churches | - | III |
Unlimbered artillery | - | - |
Other materials placed as an obstacle | I | -/I |
Abatis and chevaux-de-frise | I | - |
Barricades | I | -/I |
Artillery emplacements in open terrain | II | II |
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