How to properly used poorly equipped skirmishers?

**Rahwana** · 12-14-2009, 11:05

Use them as movable meatshields to cover your more precious units, set them in loose formation, and let your enemy waste their ammo on yours (turn limited ammo on, or this tactics are useless)

**Gromski** · 12-14-2009, 11:10

Originally Posted by Sonic

Use them as movable meatshields to cover your more precious units, set them in loose formation, and let your enemy waste their ammo on yours (turn limited ammo on, or this tactics are useless)

How to turn on the limited ammo then?

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 12-14-2009, 12:36

Originally Posted by Gromski

How to turn on the limited ammo then?

It is the default setting. Better question is how to set it off.

**Gromski** · 12-14-2009, 13:15

Oh sorry, I mean what control the limited/unlimited ammo toggle

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 12-14-2009, 15:28

Originally Posted by Gromski

Oh sorry, I mean what control the limited/unlimited ammo toggle

I don't know of any toggle to put units on unlimited ammo. Line infantry have 15 shots and that is it.

**nameless** · 12-15-2009, 05:37

Most light infantry have stakes. You can hide them far out front in your lines or on your flanks and when the time is right set up the stakes.

I sometimes put them on the flanks and when the enemy is engaged my light infantry is free to pick them off.

**Braden** · 12-15-2009, 17:08

Yeah, much what I do. Put them out on the flank on set-up, let them hide and use them to put extra pressure on enemy companies marching past.

Sometimes they’re quite handy springing a nasty surprise doing this on cavalry charging past too.

They get used…perhaps not that much and I certainly don’t use that many of them. If I have four-five companies for an entire campaign, that would be normal I guess.