What was battle like?

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>>3029860
Battles were and still are long. It doesn't happen in 15 minutes screen time, it takes hours sometimes days even months. In the early 19th century battles would be fought with line tactics aka disciplined meat grinder, if a flank is about to fall a messenger would run up to the commander to let him know, so he can act accordingly.

>>3029868
thx
>>3029870
i know the battles were long but i find it hard to imagine the battles with all the companies marching in columns/lines and reforming according to what was needed with thousands of cavalrymen and the skirmishing infantry also seems weird to imagine because i'm bad with distances and idk how it would look if chains of skirmishers fired at eachother hundreds of meters in front of the main line while the formations took place

>>3029860
Check out Empire: Total War / Napoleon: Total War.
Don't forget to download the Darthmod for both of them.

>>3031018
>not downloading Imperial Destroyer with VDM mod for Empire

>>3029860
The Geneva convention should ban all use of weaponry designed and used after the Napoleonic era just so we can find out.
Make warfare aesthetic again!

>>3031018
You do realize the question was regarding scale right? Learn to read retard

>>3031018
Is this a joke ?

>>3031251
>professional soldiers will never dress in brightly coloured uniforms ever again

The greatest shame.

>>3031018
I also recommend the Sharpe series. Especially the parts where they act like modern spec ops and clean their guns and shit.

Read "Faces of Battle" by John Keegan. Gives a good account of the perils of Napoleonic warfare

>>3029860
The movie Waterloo does a good job of presenting the way battles would be fought, plus it's essential historical kino