<font color="orange">Again, I don't own any HPS title but...</font id="orange">
My personnal opinion concurs with Andy's in the sense that auto-squaring should occur only if the size of the charging cavalry justifies such a formation change. I wouldn't like to see the program make my 600 strong battalion attempt to form square because of 100 charging horsmen.
Being one of those "nasty" opportunists, my tactics would be to make the ennemy form square only to let some infantrymen attempt to melee and disrupt the square with the purpose of pinning it down. [^]
If some of above mentionned concerns are taken care of, I would also prefer auto-squaring as part of the regular engine but <u>with</u> the availability of an optional rule enabling to disable that feature (Like Richard's suggestion).
BTW, the possibility of militia routing even before melee makes a lot of sense to me!
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<font color="orange">After all of these implementations, I will seriously consider purchasing all of the HPS titles at once! [;)]</font id="orange">
[url="mailto:pyguinard@hotmail.com"]Lt Pierre-Yves Guinard[/url],
6e Division, II Corp
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