Effective tactics, who has em?

[Strategy]

I've noticed my casualties are still always very high (around one to three). 'That normal, or do I suck at 18th century warfare? By looking at unit stats, I would say it's because the units are all similar (too similar if you ask me... the grenadiers are supposed to be elite melee units, the way they were used, and here they're almost the same as the line infantry).

I average around 1 to 5 on VH - better in the instances were I forget to switch back on the VH battle difficulty (note that the battle difficult seems to reset to normal when you start up the game again).

The only times when I tend to suffer more casaulties than that ratio is if the AI either has a significant edge in number of infantry. This tends to results in lengthy shootouts (because of enemy numbers, it is usually impossible to outflank for a while, and this means my center units will get shredded before I chew up his flanks) or the AI charges my infantry, also resulting in huge casaulties.