The artillery's rate of fire means that unless you already battered the enemy regiment beforehand, it won't break and will just charge onwards, massacring the artillery unit, which is simply too costly to allow. The only time artillery is actualy useful in my experience is in close range, but that presents another issue – first, your troops mustn't stand in front of the artillery, meaning you will be having a gap in fronline plugged only by the artillery alone. Even if the range is very long, far longer than that of a musket, if several minutes of constant shelling only costs me a couple dozen troops in a 2k stack, then who cares? It really only makes holes in the landscape and I can afford to ignore it entirely, up until the time enemy leaves it open and I send the cavalry in to massacre it (after all, one can get a lot of $$$ for selling captured cannons). Consider how expensive artillery is and how much supply it eats through (can easy deplete a supply wagon all on its own).
If your unit's morale isn't doing any better, what you get is two broken units that are just cowering and slinging potshots at each other, neither willing to actually run or attack to put an end to it.Ĭlick to expand.That, and overall cost/reward of it. If you shoot at your enemies from a distance and their morale fails, they will, instead of running, simply cower in their trenches and sling potshots back. If you charge your enemies and they break, they will simply rout from the field and that will mostly be the end of it. The paradox of this is that it actually resulted in bloodier battles.
The psychological barriers to directly engaging in lethal hand to hand combat were even higher than usual. It was just psychologically easier to sling shots in their general direction, not even really very aimed, and hope they go away. Click to expand.Not necessarily even lack of training, but the psychology of WHO you were fighting against: In the civil war, people were fighting against those they already knew, people who used to be their countrymen: They didn't WANT to run up in their faces and start stabbing them.
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