Securing your position...

[Ramjam]

When I lived in Cornwall about 10 years ago I sat down one weekend and tried to plan out if I was placed in the command of the defence of the village I lived in, how would I go about doing it. I came up with quite a long list of things to consider, including :

1) What man-power would I need to secure to the village.
2) What man-power would be available.
3) What ordnance would be needed and how easy would it be to obtain.
4) How available would fresh and clean drinking water be.
5) Was there any land that could be used for crops etc.
6) Was the village on a major road/rail etc (I know maybe not a major problem but there again if you don't wait everybody knowing you have a tiny piece of heaven in a world of hell).

And many more of the question already posted in previous posts.

I also considered if the village was not suitable to be secured or the man-power requirments were just to big, was there another location in the area (say within 50 miles) that could be used.

In the end I worked out that my village would be a pain to secure due to be in a open location, on a semi major road and with no local water supply (ie a river or lake etc).

But I did think about a little village down the road which was right on the coast with a tiny harbour in a quite valley. Depending on the number of people the village had to support I thought this was a much suitable and defendable location.