Quote Originally Posted by BDC
Althought the stacking and lack of friendly fire is appauling, as is the lack of an auto-fire option.
Nothing is perfect. But I wonder what all those auto-fire buttons are doing on my screen, if they are not for auto-firing. You can order troops, cannon and cavalry to automatically attack anything remotely resembling an enemy.

I will tell you what is brilliant about this game though. This afternoon I pinned down an enemy squadron by sending a couple of individual horsemen from a disbanded unit behind their lines and ordering them to attack this unit from the rear. I watched the enemy unit twist and turn in on itself as it fought off the intruders, clamly marched up my own infantry unit and blew them to smithereens with a single volley. The same diversion tactics can be used with Chasseurs/Rifles operating behind enemy lines, shooting packhorses, cannon, militia or officers and standard bearers out of woods and from behind barns. You can disrupt the enemy's lines and formations, his logistics and morale this way. That is absolutely brilliant.