Yipeeeee ! Dismountable Units

[amritochates]

Yes! Yes! Yes! Dismountable Units ala MTW albeit better are back again.

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For example, cavalry units like Dragoons are actually mounted Calvary units with sabres, they're able to ride in and fight battles and then dismount load their rifles and start shooting, before mounting up again and moving. So they fight both melee and ranged combat

Ps. anyone actually seen this in screenshots yet ??

From the new reviews.

As a bonus my recommended specs for ETW:
OS
Operating System Windows XP or Windows Vista
Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Memory
2 GB RAM
Graphics Card
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB or ATI 2900XT 512MB
Sound Card
Sound Hardware DirectX 9.0c compliant card

Ps. these are the recommended specs for Crysis- IMHO anything that can run Crysis at maximum settings will also run ETW at max.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Yep this is one heck of a feature. Can't wait to try it in the demo! Please don't just be naval battles...

[Flying Pig]

errr... less pleased. Tactically, if I dismount cavalry and start a firefight, my horses are going to run away and I'll lose a great unit

[rajpoot]

errr... less pleased. Tactically, if I dismount cavalry and start a firefight, my horses are going to run away and I'll lose a great unit

I thought horses of the kind that were taken into battle were trained to bear all this stuff, crowds, yelling, gunshots and stuff?
How else does a group of horsmen charge into a formation firing at them otherwise?

[Sheogorath]

Typically horsemen DIDN'T charge into a large formation of men who were firing at them.
Cavalry in this era was NOT the beat-all-end-all it was in the MTW era. It was, actually, approaching obsolescence. A frontal charge against trained infantry was suicide. And even almost unprotected cannons could inflict serious damage of charging cavalry (Light Brigade, anybody?)
Cavalry's use by this point was generally limited to flanking and running down routers. REALLY heavy cavalry and lancers MIGHT risk a frontal charge against an enemy that was already wavering, but if the infantry stood their ground and fought back, they would almost certainly win. A pointy bit of metal on a stick is very effective against a target as big as a horse and cavalryman.
Although, given, troops would have to be well trained to hold against the sight of a hundred men in funny hats screaming and bearing down on them with swords and suchlike.

[CBR]

Hm cavalry were hardly the "the beat-all-end-all" in the time of MTW nor can it be considered to be anywhere near obsolescence in the time of ETW. Its main strength has always been its mobility that meant quick flank/counter attacks.


CBR

[rajpoot]

(Light Brigade, anybody?)

That put me thinking again, the Light Brigade was nigh annihilated, but if I'm right they did manage to destroy the artillery battery they had charged.
While this case was one of it's kind, this is something that happens all the time in Imperial Glory. And it's digusting to see your 12 pounders being killed by suicidal cavalrymen, specially considering how much the 12 pounders cost and how much did the cavalrymen cost.
I hope that that the canons in ETW are a bit more robust. Or else they are cheaper.........one can't have an infantry unit standing by the canons all the time, just to ward off some nutjob horsemen!!

Edit: infact what they should do is, not allow the cavalry to directly charge at an artillery unit at all..........or something of the sort........else we might be having Light Brigades every day in ETW.........