Originally Posted by
Papewaio
It ain't monks per se that make the matchbox deadly. Its that you can't easily get into it. If they didn't have any spearman, then cav would have a chance with speed. A lot of the boxes though are 4 muskets, 4 spearman, lots of loan swords at the 10k level.
I think one of the better fixes though isn't nerfing matchlocks, but making their morale hit worse.
Worse for users getting shot in the back, particularly from friendly fire. If the morale hit was the same when used on your own troops as well as the opposition, then it would make it a lot harder to maintain squares. I think that is a more realistic option, I don't know too many armies that had high morale by shooting their troops... sure battlefield police exist, some countries used machine guns on their own troops when they retreated... but those armies were never what one would call cohesive enough to form much more then a mob let alone a square.
Mind you historically speaking mixed squares were very good against cav... they just didn't shoot their own troops, and the counter was cannons... the closest thing in Shogun 2 are firebombers and ninja... anyone have any success with these in attacking a square?
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