how to use advance and fire?

[nafod]

Age of Empires takes place throughout all periods i believe, or antiquity only. i believe you mean to say Empire: Total War...

You sir are correct.

[Prussian to the Iron]

You sir are correct.

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@disruptor:

in my experience, if you fire 2 or 3 volleys and then charge, you can easily win.

one of my strategies when using an army with some cavalry is that i have my main line, then it fires a couple volleys, and have my cavalry flank both extremeties. then i have my remaining cavalry units go around behind and charge. at this point i order my infantry to fix bayonets, and they easily win.

if i feel like i need more of an edge for any reason, i stretch out some of my infantry to envelop the flanks, and pull my cavalry behind. this way, it is impossible to escape, but i also have cavalry behind just in case.

the reason behind the second part is that no one ever routs to the sides. if i stretch my line out a little more to envelop the flanks, then i free up entire cavalry units and kill just as many men. then if any of them escape the back i can use my cavalry to run them down, or redirect them right back into my other men.

that reminds me, i have this hilarious glitch where i get the enemy ot run back and forth. once the enemy is all routing, i bring a cavalry unit straight ahead of a prefereably small routing unit. it will then go to the side or back where it came from. i then move up other cavalry to form an inward facing square around the routing unit. it will continually go one way, find its path blocked, go another way, find its path blocked, until eventually th battle is over. mighty good fun