How are defensive units picked

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by SpencerH
At Waterloo the British Heavy Cav routed a French Division during its charge.

Continuing with the Civ3 paradigm:

horsemen - spearmen
knights - pikemen
dragoons - muskets
cavalry - riflemen
tanks - infantry

You can see where the problem is: the dragoons are missing. The "cavalry" at waterloo would actually be "dragoons." They used speed and steel to overcome the slow-firing muskets.

[ALPHA WOLF 64]

were dragoons strictly sabre guys or did they have firearms?

[SpencerH]

Hard to say I think. Sabres mostly, but some handguns ?

[Arrian]

If you add dragoons, I think musketmen have to be beefed up... to a 5 defense. Dragoons can have the 6 attack. Riflemen should have an 8 defense. Cavalry can have an 8 attack. Infantry go up to 14 defense... and on and on.

There are a number of changes that could/should be made in the a/d/m values, but overall I think the game works pretty well.

-Arrian