Lord_Valentai
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Now, this sounds rather strange, considering I played the Talonsoft and later the HPS Napoleonic games.
However, in all that time, I still have no clear idea on the best way to use infantry! Obviously, you form square to repel cavalry, and use column to march through bad terrain...but what then?
- How do you use Line properly? With only one unit able to fire, and artillery smashing multiple units, it seems like it's fairly useless unless you're using BIG line units like the Austrians or British.
- So that leaves Column. Useful for attacking, melee, doesn't get disrupted by terrain. BUT, it gets murdered by close ranged fire, and is pretty bad at firing.
- Skirmishers are useful (though not as much as in the Talonsoft ones where they were annoyingly invulnerable to muskets), but they don't do that many casualties, and often rout quite easily as they're sent forward.
So...how do I use infantry properly? I admit I've usually only played the AI, and relied on fighting defensive and using cavalry mainly as my infantry always got disrupted and ran away!
However, in all that time, I still have no clear idea on the best way to use infantry! Obviously, you form square to repel cavalry, and use column to march through bad terrain...but what then?
- How do you use Line properly? With only one unit able to fire, and artillery smashing multiple units, it seems like it's fairly useless unless you're using BIG line units like the Austrians or British.
- So that leaves Column. Useful for attacking, melee, doesn't get disrupted by terrain. BUT, it gets murdered by close ranged fire, and is pretty bad at firing.
- Skirmishers are useful (though not as much as in the Talonsoft ones where they were annoyingly invulnerable to muskets), but they don't do that many casualties, and often rout quite easily as they're sent forward.
So...how do I use infantry properly? I admit I've usually only played the AI, and relied on fighting defensive and using cavalry mainly as my infantry always got disrupted and ran away!