Things that are crucial in waterloo: -Cavalry is important, always have a reserve, do not send them towards spikes -Make your lines long but not too long -Flanking is key -Dont pointlessly charge -Counter attacks!!
I played normal and then very hard and just focused on pushing the left side with most of my infantry and artillery. Then I carefully walked my cav behind their spikes and setup a firing line.
"Truly a Triumph, my Excellency! Now all we have to do is destroy 2 Russian, 2 Austrian, 1 Spanish and another Prussian/German army to defeat the Coalition." FM Ney, after Bruxelles is captured.
So in the end you have uploaded a Napoleon Total War battle. Since I saw Epic History TV a few months ago and all its series on Napoleon I have been hooked on the Napoleonic Wars. It is simply magnificent.
@@michaelbelcher8805 1) For Waterloo, Napoleon delayed his attack not for easier movement of his troops. He expected dry earth so that his cannon balls could bound up and down in the dry land and give a huge lethality. A cannon ball does not bound on muddy land. Another reason was that after each cannon fire, the cannon itself mired into mud. It needed 4-6 soldiers to pull it out. Artillerymen got easily exhausted repeating this process.
@@michaelbelcher8805 2) At 4pm, Ney considered Wellington was retreating. He sent 1st and 4th battalion of cuirassiers led by Count Mihaud around 2000 horsemen to attack. This was only a tentative attack. But several cavalry commander ignoring orders charged together with General Mihaud. (For example Guard heavy cavalry commander Guyot) Around 4000 French horsemen rushed towards the British. Napoleon saw the defective cavalry charge. But He would gamble his victory on this charge. He called out his cavalry commander Kellermann Jr. to gather all the reserve horses they had. General Kellermann strongly opposed it. But Napoleon insisted this cavalry charge. So Kellermann led around 6000-7000 French horsemen to support Marshal Ney.
@@michaelbelcher8805 3) Therefore, Ney's cavalry attack was not an unauthorized move. It was authorized by Napoleon himself although he refused to admit it after the war. Most his cavalry generals claimed that Napoleon permited this great cavalry charge.
The lined seem to be very stretched out, that might effect the morale, and some lines were that disorganized that they were straight behind others, and the cavalry charged on spikes, those kill horses.
>some lines were that disorganized that they were straight behind others Uh no, having 2 or even 3 lines is better than one, more bullets to spray than a single line. Since artillery is crap in this game and misses 90% of the time, it's worth the risk to quickly route enemy units with this focused fire.
@@AFGuidesHD no es fuego concentrado si tienes unas unidades detrás de otras es es solo fuego amigo , fuego concentrado es cuando rodeas a la unidad enemiga y le haces una media luna al rededor , y otra cosa que es una imprudencia es permitir que el enemigo te cargue con su caballería para eso están la formas en cuadro que la destruyen más rápido y sin sufrir bajás
Some say if he had replaces Grouchy with the under appreciated but excellent Marshal David “The Iron Marshal”, the outcome of the battle may have been different.
Easiest way to win this battle is to funnel infantry round to the left take the farmhouse and then sweep down the ridge. Keep 3 brigades if cav free to engage blucher which destroys him. Then the remainder of your cavalry can be used to destroy the British which try to advance off the ridge. BTW taking any building in this battle means that british artillary will fire on that building so you can keep infantry safe.
@@AFGuidesHD the purpose of square formation isnt only for the gun shots, it would make your troops act like anti cavalry spikes and they would be braced
7:18 don’t use the cav to engage the bri'ish infantry up with barricade like ney did, full send to hougoumont, let them come down and charge in with the cav, after that, carefully have the cav moving between the barricades to prevent losses from the horses jumping from the barricade and finish off the bri'ish artillery then off to the prussians
I would like to see you try the Operation Flashpoint Games from Codemaster Dragon Rising was pretty good it’s like Battlefield Bad Company a little bit while Red River is just some Generic Shooter but it’s still worth checking those out when you have a chance
well its certainly difficult to keep a straight line when attacking entrenched infantry on a hill with massive chokepoints what was Napoleon thinking!?
I never played Napoleon total war, but in this situation I prefer attack first prussian in moving, then I see the english army, who is sleeping in hill. A front battle with english army is a real mistake in the first phase of this game. History of battle: The prussian army went to Right flank of french army but they attacked always behind the army of Napoleon during the battle (not at the end) and it was real fight, a carnage of prussian and french soldier. The french reserve fought the Prussians.
Really poor usage of artillery, artillery is much more useful than people think and its simply underperforming because they utilize it for the wrong targets or simply forget about it entirely and let it be charged. My tip is to utilize it to destroy buildings or to prioritize killing cavalry which it does pretty well (it is also an excellent tool for assassinating generals). I only recommend using solid shot against infantry when they're bunched up or when closing up with scatter shot (although even this might not be enough, hence the importance of assassinating their general early for the demoralizing effect). Lastly, howitzers do a really ok job at dealing with infantry and they can really thin out strong enemy infantry units which lets you save the lives of many line infantry units. My advice is to sacrifice at least 1 of your infantry or cavalry units to protect your rear and that precious artillery. This might actually be a good lure because enemy cavalry will usually try to outflank you and target your artillery, you can use this to your advantage if you know what you're doing. I usually have a unit of light cavalry or militia (something cheap) solely dedicated to protecting that artillery as even one militia unit can really put a big dent on any nasty cavalrymen that try to rush your guns.
@@AFGuidesHD Yeah I also despised artillery but after replaying this amazing game after some years I have finally realized the potential of artillery. It does well against cavalry because cavalry are easier targets in general, the A.I is stupid enough to keep them standing still or charging directly towarda your guns. The guns miss a lot so I usually use lower caliber due to the higher accuracy and always have more than one,it helps because even one direct shot is enough to severely weaken any cavalry unit.
where you was when napoleon fight with british at waterloo? you must need to show for napoleon this battle and say "i am better that you "l'empereur" ahahahaa"
@@AFGuidesHD the caroleans were an infantry unit in the swedish empire, the way their tactics worked was they would march double time toward the enemy army taking fire the entire time, and would only fire their muskets exactly twice, once at 50 paces, then a second and final time at 20 paces, and after that second and final musket volley, the caroleans would draw all of their weapons and charge right at the enemy and fight them in hand to hand combat until the enemy retreated or were defeated.
@@Brett-uq4tz you can form a line and have them advance in a straight line and have them hold fire, but there's nothing too precise like what you described lol
If you play as Britain on easy mode it’s not very hard and infact I beat it on my 4-6 gameplay and normal is easy to but that’s because you have an advantage of holding farmhouses like hougmont papelotte and la haye saint and elite units but as France it’s almost impossible for me and even though I have it on easy mode it’s hard because my units always keep wavering and becoming shattered since the British has a higher boost in morale which is not fair and you don’t even have any artillery good enough to destroy even one farmhouse and I tried to flank the British with light cavalry but the world border prevented me from doing it and also hougomont is the hardest to take with papelotte able to fall easy but the thing is it’s hard to shatter most or all of Wellington’s men and you have to defeat him quick because then the Prussians will attack behind you so honestly I feel like the units are not very balanced because the British have a huge morale boost when the French have a small one which feels very unfair and borodino was not to bad compared to this since my artillery destroy many of the Russian artillery guns but Waterloo as the French is actually very hard
