Charges, Total Frustration II

I'm not sure I'm totally happy with the hit and miss nature of charges, really. I've certainly gotten a lot of successful "full" charges off and when I do the carnage is really impressive (especially from the rear, or against non-spear units) but to be certain of hitting it cleanly I've found I have to be *so* careful and line things up so well that it takes a lot of babysitting of the units. I like the effects of charges - devastating against non-spears and considerably weaker against braced spears (I adore how charge damage is noticeably reflected onto mounted units by braced spears especially), but just not quite the demand needed to pull it off.

Now, admittedly, I am and always will prefer to be a solid and steady infantry commander (from way back having nothing but Yari and sword Samurai armies). I do really enjoy and appreciate the different challenge of using the light and heavy cavalry armies, but the levels of micromanagement I've found are necessary to be 100% successful seem a little over the top. Perhaps it's needed somewhat to prevent repeated withdraw-and-recharge tactics from over-dominating the field, but with the discussion I've read here I can't see it doing much to prevent that as lots of people appear to have a great deal of ease with pulling off charges.

I wonder if it's worth doing a poll or a questionnaire for the cavalry masters among us to educate us poor ground-pounders just what they're doing differently to us. I know I, for one, would love to learn how to better use my cavalry arm!