Napoleon Total War Manual Part 6
Napoleon Total War Manual Part 6
The trick in selecting the best cavalry unit for your demand is to check their abilities before recruiting. There are in fact two types of heavy cavalry. The ones with spear and the ones with sword. The sword ones tend to expand more and more as your technology advances, but there will be only one or two types of heavy cavalry with spears. Now, if you intend to use the cavalry in the positions where you need quick resolution of matters, like disabling cannons or flanking the enemy from back, you may want to use the ones with sword since they are better in close combat, after charge.
However if you want to use the charge efficiency on flat ground before your musketeers get into position, to either give them time or to gain the upper hand. You may also want to flank just through the enemy formations with wedge formation cavalry unit, get behind them to make sure a flank in case they continue to walk the way they were already walking. At this time, if they turn back to fire after your cavalry unit, this might as well mean their doom, because a cavalry unit which flanks through line infantry does not lose much of its speed, therefore as the line infantry messes with itself for turning back and reforming for a salvo, the cavalry unit can easily get the hell out of their range which is the exact time that your… Read the rest
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