Ok, so my friend has come up with this strat that I am having extreme difficulty countering.
What he does is we play in the early period, he gets 4 units of landless rabble, 2 units of spear calvalry and then nothing but swordsmen. When it is all said and done he outnumbers my little group of about 1200 british consisting pretty evenly of artillery, grenadiers, skirmishers calv, and line infantry, with his army of almost 3500 units.
He marches the rabble out in wide lines and the swordsmen in columns, when he reaches my line he sends the rabble in first who soak up all my fire and while my men reload they are hit by waves and waves of angry swordsmen. Since he has by that point every single one of my units tied up in melee he has enough left over to overload my flank and devour it, after one unit on the flank falls it is over as the indian wave washes over the rest of my line and breaks everything on my line after that.
After my balanced force didn't work I tried several things, mortar spam which didn't work b/c there are just too many. Calv spam which still lost b/c of his insane numbers, and all line in which I was still vastly outnumbered. I'm not totally sure what to do, at the beginning of the match I try to kill off his rabble with my skirmishers but there are so many of them that I can't get enough of them to make a diff, and his calvalry will drive off my skirmishers pretty fast.
So anyone have any strats that might help me defeat the indian zerg menace?