that seems like it would extend our lines by a lot. Generally i would favor keeping reserves in order to shore up openings or to exploit them int he enemy lines
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The enemy is primarily interested in breaking trough our lines and will attempt to do this using a (probably) concentrated artillery bombardment followed by cavalry charge. So we need to first manage our defence against the charge, followed by by a counterattack. Not to sure how well this will work given that we are fairly evenly matched in both artillery and cavalry, but positioning our cavalry units to intercept the charge and exploit weakness is going to be crucial.
true that, however if we use our artillery to supress their artillery they are very likely to focus on coutnerbattery fire. Artillerymen generally dont shoot at infantry far away regardless of orders even if the general commands it if they are under fire themselves
Huh, you're right. My bad. This does open the area for the charge somewhat, but the pushing the centre is still optimal for the enemy cavalry.
It depends on what the artillery is in range off. The artillery is probably going to be kept out of each others ranges, since we will be positioning the infantry a couple tiles before them to prevent our precious artillery to be killed by a cavalry charge. We can only somewhat reliably hit the medium range of 6-7 tiles, so I don't really see the enemy artillery getting close enough to be bombarded.
Yeah, I agree. There is a decent risk of the enemy trying to flank us with a smaller push there, so I think keeping a smaller number of units to guard the flank will be necessary. But the area is to small for the main charge, so I would be wary of keeping too many units at the eastern flank of the map.
So there are a few issues with this formation: 1) The rule about non-routed units not being able to move trough each other. As it stands, our cavalry would have to move around the ball to be of use, which is suboptimal. 2) This hedgehog formation makes it so our artillery is only one routing unit away from being killed in melee. An issue when the opponent has lancers.
I think you need to think slightly differently about preventing cavalry charges against the artillery. We can't make it literally impossible to charge those with our current troop count. But the enemy also needs to keep the cav alive as well, so any attack launched with them needs to end with them returning to a position where they aren't slaughtered by infantry charges/fire on our turn. So cavalry will attack from 3 -4 tiles away (depending on if they are lancers/sabre units) in order to not go on a suicide attack or be vulnerable to infantry. So we can use an infantry line to indirectly screen an area against cav pushes and make any push deep into our formation suicidal. Cavalry are squishy, they can't go toe to toe against organized infantry lines in fire and charge range.
