How to get a good Charge, V2.0.

[Doug-Thompson]

Gah! I bumped the wrong thread this morning. Should have bumped this one.

[Shahed]

That is a great work. Worthy of a sticky ! Good job !

[lalartu]

great post, but I have a couple of unanswered questions:

1 - what is the most optimal formation to charge in? is for instance wedge even worth it? I seem to always lose a lot of knights when charging in a wedge, but then again, I didn't know how to charge well before reading this post
2 - how many lines per formation is it most beneficial to have? I usually put my heavy cavalry in two line formation, but is is best to have them in 4-5 lines forming a square instead?

oh also, does charging from a slight angle improve or deteriorate the result? what I mean is as opposed to charging straight into the spear wall (head on), what if I charge them from a 20-30 degree angle? sort of hitting the corner of their formation and not really their pointing spears? is it considered as flanking or does this end up causing more casualties because your knights have to move through a wider area?

ok hope somebody knows the answeres to these questions


thanks

[Goalie]

Yes, very well done, extremely helpful. I agree with you that MTW 2 does focus alot more on tactics than RTW, I like it better than Rome where the focus was mainly on the make up of armies and not so much tactics. I also vote that this be stickied.

[Alatien]

This is a great post. Stick it!

I have also a Q: What are the values of charge radii for different units?

I would imagine they depend on unit type and speed. But for example for a cav. I once had a Mailed Knigts unit trotting 300 m (give or take), and then masacring spearmen - most likely a succesful charge.

Any ideas on actual values?