Captain of Dragoons wrote:Question for all the GNW players out there.
The Swedes in the GNW retained the pike and used shock/Ga Pa tactics for their infantry. How does a game feel; Is it as per its counterpart the WSS or more like LoA/9YW/GA period because of the pike? Does the cavalry more or less operate the same way, etc?
cheers
Edward
Apart from the atypical aggression you mention (which only works if you play to it) there is the better command and control they seem to have in most rulesets. Quite apart from whether this is justified or not (I'd say yes, for the high profile armies), it results in a game where you focus on maneuvring units instead of lines of units. This is as much a disadvantage as it is an advantage of course - I have had many games where the maneuvrability of the Swedes led me to attack in a disjointed, piece-meal (sp?) way, which is as good a way as any to lose with them
Then there is the fact that you are always (usually heavily) outnumbered, which also results in a totally different experience as a Swedish player vs a Russian player, for example.
So I'd say the game feels quite different if you're playing with God's own army in God's own period
