Help with Melee fighting in NTW2

**Flashman1982** · January 04, 2008, 10:30 AM

Anyone able to help me on this?

How do I bayonet Charge in NTW2? I have lined up my French forces into Columns and am marching towards the thin red British line with drums a pumping, unfortunatly when the time to charge the line comes I only have the gun Icon when hovering over the enemy and my forces break back to fire with muskets. There is a toggle Skirmish button on the control panel but it makes no difference the pistol still appears with the green target above it.... I really just want to smash into that line not go toe to toe with the higher rate of fire redcoats...help!!

**Ludens** · January 04, 2008, 12:59 PM

Use [Alt] - (double) right-click. You should also use this for lancer cavalry, as it makes them switch to their swords after the initial charge, which is more effective.

**Legless Lannes** · January 07, 2008, 01:15 PM

Time the charge right and you'll send the redcoats flying in retreat or Sharpe the swine will send you reeling.

**Holyromanknight2** · March 07, 2008, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by Flashman1982

Anyone able to help me on this?

How do I bayonet Charge in NTW2? I have lined up my French forces into Columns and am marching towards the thin red British line with drums a pumping, unfortunatly when the time to charge the line comes I only have the gun Icon when hovering over the enemy and my forces break back to fire with muskets. There is a toggle Skirmish button on the control panel but it makes no difference the pistol still appears with the green target above it.... I really just want to smash into that line not go toe to toe with the higher rate of fire redcoats...help!!

Man, you really have to read the controls ingame.

**Elzabar** · March 07, 2008, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by Legless Lannes

Time the charge right and you'll send the redcoats flying in retreat or Sharpe the swine will send you reeling.

Yeah, kinda hurts when you time it a bit late, and as your men close in to about 2 metres infront of the enemy, a volley rips through them. Quickly followed by another volley while they retreat, and you've lost a unit without causing the enemy hardly any pain. Timing a volley and a bayonet charge is very hard though, especially in multiplayer, because you cant pause while you calculate the distance and what not.

**Erwin Rommel** · March 07, 2008, 09:10 PM

dont even try to bayonet charge!!!

let them charge then fire at POINT BLANK RANGE!!!!!

**The10thLegion** · March 08, 2008, 03:48 AM

ouch!

**Elzabar** · March 08, 2008, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Col. Roy Mustang

dont even try to bayonet charge!!!

let them charge then fire at POINT BLANK RANGE!!!!!

Dont ya just love that?

**Erwin Rommel** · March 08, 2008, 10:40 PM

yup!!

cept in Multi.......seems they hate this

a landwehr routing a Imperial Guard

**Elzabar** · March 09, 2008, 01:57 AM

Yeah, I'm a bit of a Newbie to NTW2, but you wanna have a 1 on 1 some time Col?

**Erwin Rommel** · March 09, 2008, 03:12 AM

i;ll try.....cant dl the map pack

coz its really huge

**Elzabar** · March 09, 2008, 10:26 PM

oh ok. Yeah, took my computer about four or five hours (not sure of the actual time because I was at school) to dl. But its just a bit smaller than the pen-pack. Private Message me when you want a game

**Erwin Rommel** · March 09, 2008, 10:38 PM

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure

although some N2TW multi games dicouraged the point blank volley fire coz

*annoying tone*

its unfaier coz my trops will go rout blah blah blah.....FINE i;ll send my 9 pounders directly at your arse!!!1

**Elzabar** · March 09, 2008, 10:46 PM

Dont see whats unfair about it, you charge your troops, then you run the risk of getting your arse scraped off of the field.

**Erwin Rommel** · March 09, 2008, 10:52 PM

exactly..!!!

let the landwehr have thier glory by kicking the arse of even the Garde Imperial!!!

BUT bayonet charge is overrated...........its kinda hard when to guess when the right time to charge

cavalry also.....one time you were sweeping the enemy with cav only, the next time yours got butchered coz the y bogged down JUST BECASUE A STUPID IMPERIAL GUARD decides to hold us!

**Elzabar** · March 09, 2008, 11:00 PM

Yeah but I must say, after my first (and only) Victory, which was pretty much entirely because I timed a cav charge with Austrian Cavalry right, I love those things.

**Erwin Rommel** · March 09, 2008, 11:03 PM

HEY MEG!!!

ntoe to self Austrians when walking trurned there pants to look like baggy pants

general unit - when the general is killed the other men chant like barbarian druids

the cav at the beginning also chant lie barbarian like "STINKIN DOGS"

could you replaced it with "I FART AT YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION"