Dragoons as garrison, worth it?

[Tartantyco]

-The Dragoons have kept my glorious Prussia in one piece for 70 years.

[Dayve]

If the demo is anything to go by... which it isn't, then dragoons suck in battle when mounted, unless they fire at something that can't fire back. Skirmish seems to be broken as it is, units with 80 range won't keep out of firing range of units with 70 range, they treat them like melee infantry and only skirmish when they get very very close to melee range.

One volley and they're down from 80 men to 50, and shaken.

[Sir Moody]

In my current campaign i field a full stack of dragoons (1 General, 4 6lb horse artillary, rest dragoons) as Raiders operating behind my enemies lines.

They are great at out manauvering the general enemy stacks (ive noticed very few cavalry units in AI stacks) and you can take the best positions easily.

Dismounted dragoons are smaller line infantry units - they get fire by rank and drawn into lines of 3 can put out some decent fire... but without the numbers of line infantry they cannot withstand the same volleys. Their advantage is you can move them around the map till you have them in an area where the enemy cannot use their weight of number to effectivly crush them (for example as Garrisons in buildings or behind walls)

Mounted they... well suck compared to anything other than the most basic Cavalry - great for running down fleeing units but dont expect them to break a formation - they will be butchered

[A Very Super Market]

They aren't bad as shock cavalry at all, and have more men per unit than cavalry in general.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Since I started on multiplayer, Dragoons are the only mounted unit I like to use. I love to use them to sprint to buildings then occupy them.

I had no idea about the repression bonus, that could be extremely useful...

[crazyviking03]

One thing I discovered was that only light dragoons can fire from horseback. Reg Dragoons can only melee while mounted. They are still great units for garissonig, and I love their uniforms.