I'm considering purchasing Slitherine's Pike & Shot game. One question comes to mind: Can we build our own formations by selecting the placement and % of pikes, arquebuses, bows, sword & buckler men, etc.? The early Renaissance was a time of experimentation where leaders sought the optimal c...

Good point. To defeat the Roman army in the scenario I described, Hannibal could resort to an oblique order - massing his best infantry to hit the Roman line at one spot and punch through (ideally on one flank) and then roll up the rest of the Roman line. Hannibal's cavalry was superior to the Roman...

I just replayed the Cannae battle as the Romans against the Carthaginians (controlled by the AI). Instead of going with the default deployment, I shifted my troops around: reformed my infantry (& bringing up the triarii) into an extended double rank line with the right flank safely anchored on t...