Anchor Your Flanks

This stance protects (temporarily) the flank of any battle line from attack by setting the edge on a garrisoned building or village.

En-circle Enemy Cavalry

When attacking enemy cavalry with your own cavalry, always try to en-circle the enemy. In this way your attack will inflict maximum casualties on the enemy by bringing more cold steel to bear on fewer targets. It will also lower the enemy's moral.

Hit and Run

Skirmishers or lancer cavalry are the best units with which to attack enemy cannon. This is best done using enough of these troops from a "broken" formation that can quickly to target and destroy a specific cannon before your enemy can react to save it. The timely destruction of front line cannon can save your own forces from devastating cannister.

Oblique Attack

Always try to get around the edge of an enemy line without exposing your own flank. Frederick the Great perfected this attack, pinning the enemy in the front with a smaller number of troops while sending lines from the rear around the flank to attack them from the side while still engaged in the front.

Target Dense Formations

Zero your artillery on packed formations for maximum devastation. Densely stacked enemy formations can be severely weakened by concentrated artillery fire, a single round shot tearing through several ranks. The best way to find these targets is to thoroughly scout your enemy.

Force Square

Use the threat of your cavalry to force enemy infantry units into square formation, withholding your cavalry and instead closing with your own line. Infantry that are closely supported by cavalry behind their lines are best able to achieve this tactic.

Ignore Routed Enemy

At critical times in battle, move your infantry to engage formed up enemy formations without wasting time to attack routed enemy and single troops along the way. Do this by not using the "attack everything on the way" command and instead moving and positioning your infantry formation where it is most useful against other formations.

Rally Your Troops

This command could be the difference between winning and losing a close battle; a depleted formation will break before a strengthened one and troops in formation are more deadly than the same number out of formation. Press the unit icon "++" to force single soldiers of the same type back into nearby units to continue the fight in formation.

Shelter Your Battalion Cannon

Placing your front line cannon within an infantry formation will protect them from enemy attack; however ensure that they far enough forward that they do not canister your own troops.