I'm playing as Great Britain. I've a couple of questions, so I'm grouping them together.
Question 1: How do you organize your army to assault a fort? I cannot win a fort battle lately to save my life. Assume a 12k stack with around 7-8 brigades, two of which are cannon. You enter a region with a fort. The assault button tells you that if you attack the fort you are "likely" to win? Every time I attack, I loose 3000 men, the fort looses 200 and the AI laughs itself hysterical over how it duped me into attacking the fort.
I've tried putting all my units into reserve except a single brigade of line infantry (leaving the right and left flank empty) so that I'm using the absolute minimum of frontage, but I still get beat. The fort only has 2000 men (a line garrison).
I know I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.
Question 2: Has anyone successfully invaded France as Great Britain? I'm trying but I organize my army into 30-50k stacks, four brigades to a battle flank and the rest in reserve. France, on the other hand, organizes their armies into 80k doomstacks. I've read where others have defeated AI armies of twice the size of theirs. I cannot seem to make this happen since France's land armies are buffed out of this world. And the problem is exacerbated by my army fighting with a supply penalty because of the invasion. When one of their armies hits mine it's just complete destruction.
Beating a French army for me is tough no matter what I do, but this is next to impossible. Again, I feel as if I'm doing something wrong here, but I can't identify what - other than group my army into one huge stack and go from there.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Question 1: How do you organize your army to assault a fort? I cannot win a fort battle lately to save my life. Assume a 12k stack with around 7-8 brigades, two of which are cannon. You enter a region with a fort. The assault button tells you that if you attack the fort you are "likely" to win? Every time I attack, I loose 3000 men, the fort looses 200 and the AI laughs itself hysterical over how it duped me into attacking the fort.
I've tried putting all my units into reserve except a single brigade of line infantry (leaving the right and left flank empty) so that I'm using the absolute minimum of frontage, but I still get beat. The fort only has 2000 men (a line garrison).
I know I'm doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.
Question 2: Has anyone successfully invaded France as Great Britain? I'm trying but I organize my army into 30-50k stacks, four brigades to a battle flank and the rest in reserve. France, on the other hand, organizes their armies into 80k doomstacks. I've read where others have defeated AI armies of twice the size of theirs. I cannot seem to make this happen since France's land armies are buffed out of this world. And the problem is exacerbated by my army fighting with a supply penalty because of the invasion. When one of their armies hits mine it's just complete destruction.
Beating a French army for me is tough no matter what I do, but this is next to impossible. Again, I feel as if I'm doing something wrong here, but I can't identify what - other than group my army into one huge stack and go from there.
Thanks for any suggestions.