My artillery make me want to cry...

[Sir Moody]

My stacks tend to include 2 12 pounders and 2 12 pounder howitzers

The howitzers with caracass shot are killers - they will easily devistate infantry and cavalry.

The 12 Pounders are great for taking down buildings (which the enemy seems to over garison)

generally i let the howitzers do as they please - occasionally chekcing them to make sure they arnt raining fire down near my Infantry - the 12 pounders i micromanage because otherwise they tend to either kill your infantry or each other - plus they stink at anything other than destroying buildings (ok sure canister is brutally effective but they wont survive long enough to make effective use of it)