Use of Cavalry

[Gunfreak]

In the cavalry theard over at BF we were talking about if you could use massed cav charges.

Is that something you can edit in the editor? Beeing able to send a LARGE force of both light and heavy cav in an all out charge

[Montecuccoli]

I divided this post to make a new thread 

[Pariente]

In this thread you will see the battle of Austerlitz played by two teams of four people, including me.

With a remarkable French panache, Zucchi commanded a massive charge to Murat's corps. Five regiments of heavy cavalry and five of light cavalry (5 460 sabres).

Moreover, you can find a video of 16 000 horsemen (as many as at Eylau battle).

It is not Hollywood, so the final scene of Rohirim horsemen saving Minas Tirith may be forgotten, because it was quite impossible for cavalry to charge on a long and regular line. They used to trot along the way and the squadrons that kept its unity after the charge won.

But, what do you mean by « editing in the editor » ? You can set your Order of Battles so that you have a large cavalry reserve corp.

[Gunfreak]

Yes, but lets say some of the cav corps is delpleted, or you play and army with out a cav reserve corps,

Can you combine scarterd cav regiments into a ad hoc force and send them on their way?

Can you order lets say cav from 3 diffrent corps to go to a colection eria then charge

[lodi57]

Can you combine scarterd cav regiments into a ad hoc force and send them on their way?

Can you order lets say cav from 3 diffrent corps to go to a colection eria then charge

Yes if you have a corp commander free of units to take command, otherwize you have to micro manage and give orders to each units.

[Dagann]

In the 2D views pics of the Austerlitz, i see many units entangled and also permeations. It seems also a few of these units are looking in the wrong direction, (not towards the enemy, bit but toward the own lines).

Are battles so messy ? Can't we prevent our units to get tangled ?

[von_Clausewitz]

I have not looked at those pictures to be sure what you are referring to, but to address the issue of units looking the wrong way, one explanation may be a unit that is routing. Or a unit that routed and is now rallying, and so until it re becomes operational it could be standing looking the way it was routing.

VC

[ess1]

Yes if you have a corp commander free of units to take command, otherwize you have to micro manage and give orders to each units.

Presume one could allocate an extra Corps Commander to accompany C-in-C Staff at setup?

[lodi57]

Presume one could allocate an extra Corps Commander to accompany C-in-C Staff at setup?

Yes. It must be allocated when you make the oob.

[Gunner24]

Are there any circumstances where Cavalry will get to attack Infantry in LINE, or will they always get to form square first ?.

[lodi57]

Are there any circumstances where Cavalry will get to attack Infantry in LINE, or will they always get to form square first ?.

Squares are always formed as soon as infantry units detect a cavalry threat.

[Gunfreak]

But can you catch a infantry unit by suprise lets say you have some hussars behind a hill and a infantry unit march by with out seeing it(fog of war) and the hussars charge then from behind+

[Ras]

But can you catch a infantry unit by suprise lets say you have some hussars behind a hill and a infantry unit march by with out seeing it(fog of war) and the hussars charge then from behind+

We don't no any details like movement speeds, but in your example I could imagine that it takes the infantry longer to form square than it takes the cavalry to reach them. Maybe depending on the quality of the attacked unit.

[lodi57]

But can you catch a infantry unit by suprise lets say you have some hussars behind a hill and a infantry unit march by with out seeing it(fog of war) and the hussars charge then from behind+

Do you really mind to order your infantry to advance in hilly or wooded terrain without sending any light cavalry reconnaissance ? I don't think so  .

[Soldat Louis]

Another silly question :  what happens if cavalry charge an infantry unit that is already engaged in melee. The infantry can hadly form square if it is already engaged. Will it be automatically routed?