How to get a good charge

[Whacker]

So now, how does one counter a heavy cavalry charge?

Braced pikes or a higher quality unit of braced spears. Cav generally gets chewed on pretty good when in a melee.

This isn't necessarily the case. If you refer back to an earlier post of mine, I mentioned how you can set waypoints and not have to pause at all, rather set the initial destination and the charge following it will be automatic. So, in theory, you can just as effectively charge in MP as in SP, no pause necessary.

Can you give this a go and see if it works? Be interesting to see your and others findings, I'm travelling and not near my gaming rig so I'm useless for the next week or so. My main complaint with this is that it's still more work that I want to do, and if I want to make a change, I'd have to mess with each individual unit of cav and fix them. In a "standard" army I run with 3 units of cav on each wing, that's potentially 6 times I'd have to do this. In SP it's a pain but doable possibly, but in MP that'd be far too much time taken to correct, imo.

Oh, and not to be an ass, but lets not highjack Hashashiyyin's excellent thread and keep specific MP discussion where they'd belong. I know I'm not a mod and I hope I don't come off like a douchebag, I'm just saying.

Nar, not being an ass at all mate. But I do think that our discussion have been in line with Mr. Hash's OP about charging mechanics. My apologies if I started us down the SP vs MP balancing, my intent was to provide more examples of why I prefer the "single action solution", so to speak.

Cheers!