Played a fun but rather quick game last week, in which a French Peninsula force plus a conscript brigade + the additional units for attacking, flooded the table with units and swept my poor thin red British line from the table rather too easy. Getting my Light Cavalry Brigade arriving late and rolling poor Vigor for all my 2 sub commanders didnt help, but it seems a very tall task to repel that many units.
You can get around the Amateur status of the conscripts by teaming them up with a Veteran unit for charges, and I found myself copping 2 French columns into each British unit. Its hard to avoid when the columns are shoulder to shoulder across the table. Artillery didnt put enough DISR onto the units before they closed.
Admittingly my tactics seem poor in retrospect, as I stayed too close to the edge of the world in defense and lost several units falling back. I couldnt get multiple firing on single units as my opponent is pretty savy and managed to get target priority separate for each of my British Line. Dragoons on the flank keep one unit in square, thus keeping them out of the action too.
So next battle... How does one keep all those advancing columns back, and avoid multiple charges from 2 at once? Staying huddled in the corner over the objective until the Cavalry show didnt work too well. Perhaps advance to the middle and meet him earlier, in my own columns (risking out flanking and fall back when charged? . Ideas?