Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
Look, you want to close with the enemy a bit before a charge. Also it should keep up pretty much a steady fire with each rank advancing to fire. The steady fire is the thing.

Trouble is about the only guys who get it are the grenadiers. It doesn’t work so well with light troop you know.
No, the problem is if you lose some guys, after the last rank has moved to the front the game will make the formation reform and pull guys from behind to the new first line and make them start a completely new reload cycle which means once the last rank is in front the steady fire stops and you have to wait for a complete reload cycle before anyone will fire again.
That's a broken game mechanic that already somewhat ruined the musket fire in older games, when the games makes musket formations reform and refill their ranks it should put only men who have finished reloading into the rank that fires next but it doesn't, so the whole first rank has to wait for "new guy" to reload before they can fire.