nova2010
Banned
I've never seen it happen in real gameplay however. Infantry squares with the top quality bayonets take a frightening toll on cavalry.Ahhh. Good to see the reemergence of that old Total War cliche, "cavalry can (and will) charge and successfully break infantry squares". I was seriously P/O'ed when Creative Assembly released their gameplay trailer for Empire Total War and it was their lead coder playing as the British (in place of the Mamelukes) fighting the Battle of the Pyramids. With an army of only cavalry he then proceeded to rush every single French infantry square, and broke them all with average casualties. I just stood there gawping, as a little bit of my soul was destroyed.
Taken from the movie "Gettysburg"?
Back to the point boys what next?
The rest of the Coalition continues the war and crushes France.
Why would the British do that? They spend the best part of the last decade fighting Napoleon.Or Napoleon manage to make a deal with Britain. Free hand of France in continental Europe in exchange to leave Britain and it's empire alone.
Ahhh. Good to see the reemergence of that old Total War cliche, "cavalry can (and will) charge and successfully break infantry squares". I was seriously P/O'ed when Creative Assembly released their gameplay trailer for Empire Total War and it was their lead coder playing as the British (in place of the Mamelukes) fighting the Battle of the Pyramids. With an army of only cavalry he then proceeded to rush every single French infantry square, and broke them all with average casualties. I just stood there gawping, as a little bit of my soul was destroyed.
Why would the British do that? They spend the best part of the last decade fighting Napoleon.
...since when? Hussars, Lancers, Dragoons, Horse Guards...I've never seen any of them break a line infantry square. Maybe Lancers charging downhill would do it...
I've managed it a few times with general cavalry attacking infantry head on. I would have refused on historical grounds, but the AI does it to me too.
Anyway, Lords and Ladies I present to you Exhibit B (Exhibit A was part of the OP). This is Creative Assembly's Battle Programmer in a teaser trailer before the game was released, winning the Battle of the Pyramids (fought on a pleasant European plain for some reason, fought between Britain and the Dutch for even less reason) by charging five units of cavalry head on into infantry, after talking about how the battalion square was Napoleon's tactic for repelling cavalry. I was not impressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabYFgfdLwo
Nva the minister you are reffering to is Metternich.During the Vienna conference before Napoleon escape from Elba the Prussians and Russians they were are seeking more land in Europe. Austria and Britain were unhappy with that. In OTL the Austrian foreign minister (I don't remember his name) through diplomacy manage to keep the peace in Europe after 1815. That was one of the reasons that escaped from Elba to take advantage of this.
Ahhh. Good to see the reemergence of that old Total War cliche, "cavalry can (and will) charge and successfully break infantry squares". I was seriously P/O'ed when Creative Assembly released their gameplay trailer for Empire Total War and it was their lead coder playing as the British (in place of the Mamelukes) fighting the Battle of the Pyramids. With an army of only cavalry he then proceeded to rush every single French infantry square, and broke them all with average casualties. I just stood there gawping, as a little bit of my soul was destroyed.
How the hell did Lannes come back to life to save the day at Waterloo?
Back to the point boys what next?