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Rosenberg20 Aug 2022 3:47 a.m. PST

Do any of you do them?

Maybe its playing the rules but I will have to try it. Was thinking about unformed infantry or even cavalry charging a company of artillery. Both attacker and defender will be unformed. Having you attempted this as a way of defeating artillery at minimum cost

Thoughts please, thanks

14Bore20 Aug 2022 4:31 a.m. PST

Been sometime ago but tried skirmish cavalry, don't think it worked. One dilemma I have is artillery actually unformed, think when it does get to actual hand to hand I rate them as such.
But it's getting past the fire if coming from that front, flank of course is no problem.

Rosenberg20 Aug 2022 11:55 p.m. PST

I seem to throw bad dice for the French! I wonder if I should throw twice or three times and average the results out? It wouldn't ready slow the game down. And at myage the mental arithmetic is good exercise for my brain!

14Bore21 Aug 2022 3:32 a.m. PST

Die rolls are what they are, no do overs.
I can't roll to get a charge to go home hardly at all, but for small arms can pick off artilleryman at long range

21eRegt22 Aug 2022 2:32 p.m. PST

Problem is that most of the cavalry that can go unformed aren't significantly higher than the artillerists. Often you are looking at a 50-50 roll with generic cav. So, no. I haven't done it but once or twice in 40 years of Empire.

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