@Foz, I had intended to leave that one open longer TBH, but with the renaming and my inability to change my thread titles for some reason I decided to start a new one.

I'll still do it from time to time, but i'll wait till their are a lot more posts in it in future, (6+pages probably, more if the discussion is still going along strong and on topic), as, (as Sapi mentioned), it was just for the purposes of clearing dead wood the first time, It just got done sooner than was perhap best this time round, their wasn't too much dead wood really.

Let me know how you get on with the changes BTW, i'd be intrested, I've found that with a formation of the right width and Guard Mode on I can even get cav to charge uphill in castles, so it sounds like an improvment to me as i couldn't even get them to stay in formation before.