This works both ways in a sense, at least in a few tests I ran yesterday. I don't remember them all, but in general I picked spanish or jannisary musketeers and went up against other various units. The ones that stand out in my mind were me (w/jannisary) against scot's guard, sherwood foresters, and musketeer elephants. When against the elephants, I picked the bone flat grass, and the game gave me clear weather. Positioned my unit well back and in two lines with skirmish off and autofire on. My unit got off two rounds, the 1st of which damaged 8 'phants, the 2nd of which killed two of them. I suspect that I could have beat them, if not for the elephant riders began to fire on me. In doing this, my unit line lost cohesion when bullets hit and they tried to reform, and never got another shot off. I also lost to the scot's guard and foresters through this same means. Not the same as charging, but range unit disruption when firing is definitely possible. /shrug
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