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I'm designing a military marching show (6 to 5) with a block of 144 marchers (12x12). I'm approaching from the left side of the field and want to begin the drill on the 45 to the right side of the 50. The front rank will countermarch there, and basically lead a follow the leader through the CM. The front rank will then CM again, 4 past to the left side of the 50, which will put them then 2 steps behind the back rank so that it is a constant pass through. There HAS to be an easier way to do this than the things I've tried over the past 5 hours. If anyone could help, I would be most appreciative.

Here is a quick video on how to do the squirrel cage.
http://youtu.be/vUzTG0gZW7I

Oh god, squirrel cages. Know that you're not alone in the frustration of charting this.

Unfortunately, the Traditional Tool doesn't have a Countermarch command, so when charting this, I have to stop the drill so that the opposing countermarch can happen. Since I am a packrat, I left a sample Squirrel Cage on my Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6j67zrd4659el ... e.3dj?dl=0

There's only two ranks that I had to do start/stop charting on when plotting. After that, it's little more than executing another FTL Countermarch.

The video of it is here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylhwB4a ... gbQZTCaAqg

The traditional tools can do a counter march. This would consist of 2 flanking turns.

For example the squirrel cage video example Route code is lf1,lf10,lf1,lf. This will have the performers march to the action line and then flank left 1 step then flank left again and take 10 steps, then flank 1 take 1 step and flank left the keep marching to complete the count range.

Pyware wrote:The traditional tools can do a counter march. This would consist of 2 flanking turns.

For example the squirrel cage video example Route code is lf1,lf10,lf1,lf. This will have the performers march to the action line and then flank left 1 step then flank left again and take 10 steps, then flank 1 take 1 step and flank left the keep marching to complete the count range.

I learned something new today. Thanks, Dustin.