Hi all.
I am very new to the game and I am trying to figure out how things work out.
Lately we played a game of Lasalle using two standard army lists (i.e from the book) with one support option.
I played with a French infantry division including (6 infanty and 1 foot artillery) plus (2 Hussars, 2 Chasseur a cheval and 1 horse artillery). I was the defender.
My opponent was the attacker with a Russian Guard division having more and better artillery, more and better infantry (+2 for higher esprit, +2 for being Guard) and very powerfull large units of guard cavalry.
It seemed to me that the only way to win was to save my pursuit cavalry from destruction long enough (until I lose). i.e try to loose early enough, so that I can take a marginal victory due to the "send in the guards" special rule.
Nevertheless, as this is no fun at all, I tryed to play to win and of course I was obliterated by my opponent who had more and superior units.
If we had played with two support options things would have been worse as my opponent would be able to take cosak (pursuit) cavalry, so not even the "send in the guards" special rule would be enough to save me.
From other rule sets that I have played (DBM, FoG, FoW) I am used to the idea of "balanced" lists: all of the troops add up to the same number of points so that elite troops are fewer and lower quality troops give more volume to the army.
Here, it seems that this is not the case.
I would like to give another example.
I have painted French and British forces so I was comparing the two lists for the Hundred days period.
They both wave exactly the same core infantry units (same amount, esprit, skirmish values etc.)
The British have fewer guns per artillery unit.
The British cannot have organic cavalry
Why should one pick the British list? (except for modelling/uniforms reasons)