Borodino with golden eagle? CMON .. how?

Can ANYONE elighten me on how to beat arty camping chevroned AI with such a stupid initial predefined starting spread-out of player forces. My arty dies in first 5 seconds)..

tried combined cav+inf rush, tried to unlimber in the first second, tried withdrawing to distance and concentrate my forces on the right-most redout... tried cursing CA.

I am frustrated.. CA offers no chalenge if you are fed up with melee blob, but frustration trying to beat statistically OP AI in ing op position.

Borodino scernario is.. so no fun. I do not mind fighting odds, but what is the point when my soldiers almost never make it to see the enemy and shoot a shot..

My fault?

Don't engage on the far left, move all troops from there to the middle, rush a cav and an infantry up through the river crossing with the other infantry just behind the river to shoot the incoming cav and once the cav is dead rush the middle hill and roll the enemy up from there.

The two russian unicorns are overpowered and they rule the battlefield. Set the difficult to hard or normal.

Originally Posted by blonkers1234

Don't engage on the far left, move all troops from there to the middle, rush a cav and an infantry up through the river crossing with the other infantry just behind the river to shoot the incoming cav and once the cav is dead rush the middle hill and roll the enemy up from there.

thx for hint. I hope that after possibly achieving this goal enough troops will remain to finish the rest. As I tried to kill redouts from right.. I killed 2 of them.. that is 2x grenades, 1 line inc, 1 cav inc and 2 arty.. and my army was almost spent, well spent actually. the hell is even some russian line takes hell of a time to rout even when being shot at from flank

thx again I will try.

Russian unicorns pwns everything! ^^ at least when you control them