Army Organization

[Servius]

I hope my question doesn't take this threat OT, but how often do you all get attacked/fight a defensive battle? In my games, I feel like it's always me who's attacking. The AI might go for a city, but it never goes for my armies. The reason I ask is that, back during MTW, when the AI only had to move a stack into an enemy region to trigger a defensive battle, I remember having very different structures for offensive and defensive stacks. My defensive stacks would be heavy with archers and spearmen, while my offensive stacks would be heavy with swordmen/polearms and light on archers or spearmen.

In ETW the basic Line Infantry unit is just so tough and flexible that it fills the role of nearly all infantry units from previous TW games in both offensive and defensive situations. They're ranged units who can melee about as well as other infantry units they might face, and once you get some bayonettes and the square formation, are just as good vs cavalry as the old spearman units used to be.

In ETW, if I fought more defensive battles, I might have more use for cannons since I hear their cannister shot is pretty impressive when you can get the AI to attack you, but I've not been impressed by any of the arty units on the attack.