In India, light infantry tends to get slaughtered by cavalry, elephants, and melee infantry. In America, skirmishers are really effective against the natives. The difference is that Britain usually fights natives, France, and Spain.
For Prussia, light infantry is much less important than line. should i stand my ground and watch the 2 sides play sillybuggers or should i take the hit and run my men in closer?Not saying they're a waste of time. You think light infantry is a waste of time for the english? also, how do you cope witht he poor accuracy at range? the AI will typically stop at max range and duke it out. A great flank ambush advantage if their fire at will is disengaged, as they can then immediately engage the flank when revealed). (Some light units of the US, such as the provincial scouts, are as good as Native American units at staying hidden. Their hiding ability is also good, but most regular army light units must maintain a fair distance away to remain hidden having then to march to firing range, negating the "surprise". The best use of their ability requires a lot of micro-management though. This makes them excellent flank attack units, able to engage without reprisal if properly managed. The ability to place stakes is one factor, but the most important is their range advantage. To OP-> Light infantry is important for any army. Their sacrifice buys my cannon the time it needs to decimate the enemy ranks. This allows me to fire over their heads with shrapnel and round, switching over to canister if the enemy engages them with melee. After placing stakes (careful to make sure they are far enough out not to interfere with my cannon fire), I switch them to light infantry behavior.
If there is no high ground, I'll usually mass cannon in the middle of my main line with a light infantry unit out front. I place them behind a solid line unit, as the enemy will try to break though to reach them. I will spread howitzers out though, to compensate for reduced range and the ability to diagonally attack enemy lines engaged with my own (to quickly reduce enemy morale). If the high ground is to the rear of my main line, I will leave a light infantry and cav. This allows me to concentrate massive firepower on enemy artillery, greatly improving my chances of knocking them out. Unlike some on these boards, I prefer to mass my cannon on any high ground available (rather than spreading it out piecemeal). Terrain usually defines my tactics and formations. Later you can add light infantry to the front off your formation (either as a buffer for your line infantry or to run up and skirmish), but in my experience you should only do that if your nation was average or worse line inf. Cavalry should be on the flanks to charge enemy lines once the musket duel starts, or with the infantry reserves if you expect a mass melee charge. unit on each outer flank to protect the cannons from cavalry flanks. France will rely on arty more than cav while Poland's Winged Hussars are more important than their cannons).Ī decent strategy in a "line-up-nicely-and-shoot-at-each-other" battle is to deploy your infantry like you did, with cannons in the middle and on flanks. Fighting with European forces remember that line infantry is your most important unit, followed by cavalry and artillery (the last two depend on situation and faction, e.g. Good strategy there, but if you have high-stat line infantry (Britain, Prussia, France) you should deploy it in as few rows as possible (reserves are still good) to use your higher firepower effectively. i think to my detriment i didnt use my cav as well as i should and i think i let my infantry engage at far too long range.Īnyone got any good hints about fighting toe to toe with western forces in DM. the cavaly engaged on my far left, it was fairly close but the dragoons took them down, once the infantry engaged things got bogged down quite badly and it took me a long time to force the advantage.
In the end, i won relatively easily but not as well as i should. Textwise it was cannons on the flanks a solid line of line inf with supporting usints behind the left and right most regiments (fire at will off) centrally behind was the general and the dragoons were on the extreme flanks.Īs long as the foum doesnt bone it that is how i was deployed.
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Though i cant help feeling darth mod would benefit from some in depth tactical sharing. the question is, did i A] did i just count wrong and have less infantry or B] am i missing something My army had 2 units of foot arty, 2 units of dragoons a general (with a decent number of stars) and the same number of infantry. Hey guys, im playing as england atm and im having an interesting problem, to set the scene, i just faught a french army with only 1 unit of cav and equal infantry no general.
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