Quote Originally Posted by Carl
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.
Yeah it appears to help charging quite a bit: I fought a battle recently with 6 squads of knights against some Spaniards in a forrest. The cavalry didn't fail to charge correctly even once during the battle, in spite of trees typically passing through the unit at regular intervals. They appear to get back in formation much more quickly when disrupted by obstacles. While the formations don't always look perfect still, they seem to count as "good enough" for charges very much more often than they had been. The effect on the unit formation doesn't appear (visually) to be that profound, but in practice it makes quite a few things work a lot better. I too had noticed troops of all sorts keeping much better formations in those narrow city streets, which is another breath of fresh air as it was painful before.

Of course I may just have hit some luck with these experiences... so it would be nice to have some other people give feedback so we know the change has actually done something substantial.