Wedge formation ?

[Shahed]

Well you can go straight through if there is a gap wide enough in the line.

[pike master]

CA intended it to work this way im sure.

but alexander the great never used the wedge in this way. he used the wedge so he could lead at the front and maneuvre his cavalry through a gap in the enemies line.

im not sure if a wedge used by horsman was ever used by cavalry as a shock formation but perhaps someone has some historical reference to this.

[Czar Alexsandr]

The Teuton's Alexsandr Nevsky fought were famous for their dreaded wedge cavalry formation. I'm relitively certain it was an offensive tactic to.

As for my tests I discovered the wedge formation did a good enough job hitting infantry in standard formation and crushing right on through to the artillery. (Each time I did this I target the artillery behind the soldiers, not the soldiers.) Against the higher level spears. (German Armoured Seargents.) I lost a lot of cavalry on the initial charge but ended up breaking through anyways. However I lost enough cavalry I probably wouldn't do it in campaign game. (might be worth mentioning my cavalry in that test were Milanese Broken Lances and Men at Arms.) Later though with a unit of Qapikula I destroyed the enemy utterly even though he had good spears. So.. I believe it can be assumed that wedge does a good job of breaking through the enemy. I never had a cavalry unit not break through, all of them did do their job although some wern't as successful... Good cavalry will break through any spear unit. However... pikes are nasty...

Lol. I tried to break through some pikes as France. Noble Knights vs. Terico defending a Basiliac. I ordered men in wedge to attack the Basiliac.. the pike men held firm and brought down my French in droves. However.. I pulled the men out the pikes broke formation I killed them all and won the battle anyways. So Wedge is effective against everything but pikes I believe.

[Shahed]

Good post Alex. I just took this screenshot, it's not that clear but inside the enemy lines like this wedge can be useful:

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[Empirate]

Sinan, do you mean the general situation shown in the screeny is one where wedge would be useful? Or is there cav in wedge formation anywhere in the screeny? If the latter, I can't seem to spot it.

[Shahed]

I mean the Moorish Camels which have broken inside the enemy army right in the middle of the screenshot. I got them in there with close formation, but that would have beeen easier in wedge. I agree it's not that clear, but that's the only shot I got in the "heat" of that moment.