"Skirmishers in woods" Topic

How do you recreate a skirmish combat in woods. Just fire away at each until one breaks. That takes too long surely.
a) forget the cover factors if both in same cover?
b) fire AND then do a unformed charge?
c) adapt the firefight rule(s)?

Thanks

I'm not sure why you would do a or c, which would seem to defeat the purpose of the rules.

If you want to drive skirmishers out of woods, you need to push them out with the bayonet, or have so many more men that the enemy fears that they will be surrounded and the only logical move is to fall back to save the command..

Ok so you are suggesting b) ?

Only if you want to do Camarón!

I am saying both a and c don't seem reasonable to me, and there is more than 1 tactical option to b.

I suggest you go to see what was historically done. In my humble opinion, Empire handles that well.
Skirmishers fighting skirmishers in the woods took both out of commission for a long time. You have succeeded in tying up HIS skirmishers. But so has he. Move on to something else. Or send a higher morale unit in after them with bayonets. If you don't want to, then you have a stalemate in the woods.

I do come across this in my battles, it's blazing away at each other if done in the regular move and no one gets hurt.. I do use EIII skirmishes rules If the winner of 1st round wants, Russians don't and my Prussians do. Have recently dumped the semi-skirmisher with my Russians and use Jagers as full skirmish.