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RJcfc wrote:

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It's hardly a superior tactic though, lets be honest. If you concentrated all of you cavalry on the centre of that square, you'd break it easily.

No, I mean, I did still win that battle, but most of my cavalry was routed. I was slightly disappointed the AI didn't try to maintain its formation more when I mass charged half of my cavalry on one side. The cav in the center didn't seem to engage. Instead the AI folded it's lines in to surround my cav, which was admittedly fairly effective as they got severely bogged down and took heavy losses.

Once I pulled them out them out I let the AI have a little breathing room and it reformed back into the square (I still had plenty of cavalry units at that point). What was quite cool though that isn't clear from the picture, is they had another artillery unit hidden in the trees along with some rifleman, and the peices out side the square were also intelligently lined with stakes. Superior tactic or not, it did decimate that cav heavy army ( granted I wasn't trying that hard). It's also cool to see them form up on the field, and how they used the tree line to fence off the side of the square.

I tried this on large unit size since that was suggested by lusted. I'll also see if it works, or is more effective on huge unit size. It should also be noted I was only playing on normal difficulty.

EDIT: I just tried this on huge unit size and the formation was exactly the same depth. The larger units just meant the square was bigger.