(I should have known it would be you 3, where's Gunner 24).
I'm here, but not able to help much, this is such a massive game I'm no where near to knowing the correct tactics yet, which kind of makes it all the more fun, it's not something that is fixed, so many things to take into account in so mant different situations.
A few basic things I've noticed - from PBEM and MP, not SP are :I do not like the really large Artillery Corps, I found when you make a big CEH random OOB you normally get one very large artillery corps......I prefer to spread my cannons between the various other Corps and I like to have some support for the cannons within the (smaller reserve) artillery corps, it might not be "correct" but I prefer it - so far.
If I see a artillery battery going to far ahead, I hit unlimber guns, that stops them !.
Cavalry UNsupported tend to get taken prisoner in mass, not sure if this is right or not, but it happens at the moment.....I've found that out twice now, to my cost.
Defensive lines can be battle winners, I did think they were too strong to start with but now begin to think they are as they should be, good formations in good defensive positions attacked head on should make a good job of repelling the attack most times.
Villages, hamlets and farms etc do help to anchor the defensive lines - a bit too well ?....maybe, maybe not. Time will tell.
No matter how big maps are the same basics apply in LG as in TW games, I can here many saying NO THEY DONT, but I think they do.......if you don't want to attack head on you have to attack from the flank, the flank is at the map edge, as in TW games.
The starting positions of the Corps are VERY important, a bit obvious I know, but if you are out of position at the start, you may not have time to re-deploy and recover.
In about a years time I may know what I'm talking about, untill then it's all experiments for me, trial and error.
It won't be even close until someone comes out with a mod that makes it possible to fight the American Civil War wearing Napoleonic uniforms. And then it won't be even close.
I agree 100%, but many others will not, this game engine is very popular and a Nap mod will no doubt be popular as well, but why bother when you have LG ?.