Land Battle Guide For Napoleon Total War Section Three
By: Samantha White
Submitted: 2010-05-06 17:18:22 | Word Count: 512
In the last two section we have learned how to use light infantries and line infantries. Let us summarize the quick rules before we continue our guiding. We need large space for line infantries, and even larger space for light infantries. We need to be careful about where we deploy our stakes with our skirmishers because we are able to deploy them once every battle. And also that we should avoid the battle areas where it is hard to manoeuvre our troops. So we come to the last type of infantry units. Which are the elite infantries. These units have much of over time qualities rather than direct battle abilities. They act like elite line infantries and to put it bluntly, they are better line infantries than random line infantries. However, there are of course some abilities that they can use.
First of all, elite infantries are the units that you can rely on in both campaign maps or battle itself. So, assuming you have full elite infantry unit army in your hand, you should not try to pick hard places where the opposing force or your own force might suffer attrition. Because elite infantries do NOT suffer attrition in any circumstances. So the first rule to keep in mind that, if the enemy has not any elite infantry or local infantry. It is really a good idea to drag them into places such as deserts or mountains or swamps where you can make them die even without fighting. However, when you need to fight, you should be picking places that you are able to use your musketeers, just like the tactics of line infantry. However, because these are in melee fighting way, better infantry, you need not to be that careful about it. Even that, most line infantries and elite infantries, have the same guns in their hands, makes the both sides able to fire with almost same efficiency. So it might actually be good idea to lure them into short range where you can charge with your bayonets. So, you can show how superior your forces are. However, be careful to not to do this on melee infantry of the enemy. Even these types are rarely confronted, they might still be dangerous if taken lightly.
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There is also something called fire and advance drill available for these elite infantrymen. When using this drill, as the name indicates so, your units fire and advance. However, this is not as useful as it sounds, which is like the one in cossacks, where you click to the button, and a certain location, and is go and attack everybody on the way. In this drill, they fire in one rank, then the other rank gets right in front of them, and fires their salvo. Then after them, the other rank comes to their protection and fires a new salvo. With this drill, your unit gets closer real slow, but keeps up a continuous barrage of fire on the enemy ranks. So it is less likely that they recover from this attack as in morale.
