Quote Originally Posted by Ishmael View Post
Alrighty, I have a few questions about deployable defences, and I seek your opinions on their usefullness.
Firstly, what are all the types of deployable defences, and what do they all do? I know that chevaux-de-frises/spiky things stop cavalry, but how effective are they in disrupting a bayonet charge? And how effective are the giant sandbag things in a firefight? And are the cannon sandbags meant to be anti-melee or gunfire?

Secondly, can you utilise these defences at any stage of the game, or do some need to be researched? Are there any factors affecting whether you can deploy defences (apart from the obvious one that you have to be defending)?

Finally, a miscellaneous inquiry-can all light infantry lay stakes, and can they lay more than one set of stakes throughout a battle? If so, is there a limit on this?

Thanks!
I can assure that the chevaux-de-frises are very usefull. Once I sent a unit of cossacks in pursuit of a feeing enemy unit and eventually they got stuck in one of those obstacles resulting in the death of most of the riders and the eventual rout of ...what was left of the unit. Notice that this was a lonely and abandoned chevaux-de-frises....

So yeah very usefull even when ot wasn't supposed to be...

V.