Been playing the demo and I put a regiment of hussars into square formation because Washington was riding about and he rode straight through them I thought the point of the square was to keep the cavalry away from the unit.
Square formation?
Been playing the demo and I put a regiment of hussars into square formation because Washington was riding about and he rode straight through them I thought the point of the square was to keep the cavalry away from the unit.
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Re: Square formation?
Hussars are cavalry units. What.
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Re: Square formation?
Just means that Washington might experience more damage to his horsemen, doesn't prevent cavalry.
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Re: Square formation?
yes your right I meant Hessian
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This is not a good example. George Washington can do anything... kind of like a 18th century Chuck Norris.
Re: Square formation?
How many casualties did Washington take?
But, you are correct the purpose of an inf square was to defend aginst calvary. You say his unit rode right thru the square?
Im not suprised really. Cav has always pretty much gone thru spears from the very begining of the TW series. Except for the phalanx in RTW, cav has always won the day, and they would sometimes put a dent in even a phalanx formation.
Maybe things will be a bit different in the age of gunpowder. I got both my units of Hussars across the river and engaged with a line company yesterday. The line company pulled back but my hussars didnt follow right away. Suddenly the American cannons on the left and on the hill to the right opened up on the hussars with grapeshot and turned both units into hamburger.
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Re: Square formation?
true, even in RTW, cavalry could punch through formations. It looked disastrous and I thought that the unit was dead, but in fact they did not suffer many casualties and completely wiped out the cavalry force. The cavalry did ruin their formation, though, and allowed other infantry to begin killing that unit. The square formation ideally has a similar effect, as well as being similar to the schiltrom formation in m2 and rtw BI, which was rather cumbersome but protected all flanks of that unit.
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The soldiers look so cute in a square formation.
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^ True dat, but historically speaking, a square was all but impenatreble to cavalry as long as the infantry held their nerve and didn't allow any openings. As long as the formation is good, the cav shouldn't be allowed in, much like a RTW Phalanx formation. (and in RTW if you had enough cav, you could break through even massed spartan phalanxes...)
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