what was the metagame in a battle during the 30 years war and

>>3099128
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Dunno I'm curious if someone could answer who has read more on the battles and tactics.
All the painting show cavalry charging into pike blocks with musketeers shooting? Is that just romanticism because that seems like suicide? How did any side push the other? Massed artillery? Cavalry charges only on disorganized areas of the lines? Also what role to the swordsmen play? Could they break lines? It seems sorta like a weird variant of diadochi warfare but different due to guns

>>3099128
>>3099151
Just google gustavian infantry. Also might have been the time frame that mobile artillery came into play actually.

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>>3099151
google tercios

guns inaccurate, it was a little similar to hoplite warfare
cavarly had pistols, they discharged them up close but not actually charging into pikes, unless the formation was already breaking up

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Pike and shot formations. Best one was the Spanish tercio imo.
Alatriste (Spanish film) had the Battle of Rocroi which employed the use of the tercio https://youtu.be/herbXyBQqNg?t=42s
And here's an entire webpage about them http://forum.milua.org/archive/TactiqueUk.htm