[colorado tanker]

Move troops in column. Musketry can not attack an arrayed force in column as the men in back would be blocked by those in front of them and would not be able to shoot anything.

Very effective tactic. The only people who could cope with it were the British, because of their superior musketry and rate of reload and fire.

[RLK]

Very effective tactic. The only people who could cope with it were the British, because of their superior musketry and rate of reload and fire.

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It's effective against poor discipline and counter-tactics. When you try it against well-trained disciplined troops, as the British were under Wellington, it's suicide. Superior rate of reload and fire was what it was about.