How Beat Napoleon's Battles Waterloo?

I somehow beat the campaign one but I don't seem to remember what I did. Does anyone have a good strategy to beat it?

Take La Haye Sainte, destroy hougomount with arty, take out the jaegers in the woods with curassairs, chew up the Prussians, Swing around La Haye Sainte and come at em from behind with the imperial guard, it worked for me and pardon my spelling, its late

The campaign one is more easier because your men have more experience. Take Papellotte with two fusiliers in columns, march your infantry foward and take out the hidden jaegers then send 1 grenadier and young guard to take La Haye Sainte (Beware the Brits will charge their cav toward your columns), then Hougomont , the hardest, send all of your guards and fusiliers to take the bloody building. With the three strongholds taken Wellington will charge toward your artillery, send your cav reserve to prepare for the onslaught. By then the Prussians will arrive and you can easily win against their landwehrs and poor cavalry by camping inside the strongholds. Also send cav to take out British arty, beware the spikes.

Another fun alternative on the standalone Waterloo battle is to swing the entire army to the right flank and up the road where the Prussians emerge. If you run, you can just catch them as they march in, which allows your line infantry to pour fire from all sides onto a mass of confused Prussians. Form up the Guard and the cavalry in a second line, facing the other direction. When the Prussians start to crumble, Wellington will abandon the ridge and throw everything he's got at you, with his cavalry leading. Because you're on their left flank now instead of in front, the British line will feed itself into your position a few units at a time. The Guard should be able to put them down, with the help of cavalry charges by D'Erlon and Ney. When the first line finishes off the Prussians, they can turn around and outflank the incoming British units. When the British infantry and cavalry have been routed, march across the ridge to clear out the British artillery crews.

The campaign version is usually easier because of unit experience, which makes the maneuvering unnecessary -- you can take the farmhouses easily in a straight fight. The flanking approach avoids all the emplaced British artillery pieces and the farmhouses, which are the most likely to rout your units. It does use up valuable time marching to flanking position and waiting for the British charge, and if you don't kill the incoming units quickly enough, there is a chance of being squashed between the Prussian remnant and the charging British.

Originally Posted by valentinian

Another fun alternative on the standalone Waterloo battle is to swing the entire army to the right flank and up the road where the Prussians emerge. If you run, you can just catch them as they march in, which allows your line infantry to pour fire from all sides onto a mass of confused Prussians. Form up the Guard and the cavalry in a second line, facing the other direction. When the Prussians start to crumble, Wellington will abandon the ridge and throw everything he's got at you, with his cavalry leading. Because you're on their left flank now instead of in front, the British line will feed itself into your position a few units at a time. The Guard should be able to put them down, with the help of cavalry charges by D'Erlon and Ney. When the first line finishes off the Prussians, they can turn around and outflank the incoming British units. When the British infantry and cavalry have been routed, march across the ridge to clear out the British artillery crews.

The campaign version is usually easier because of unit experience, which makes the maneuvering unnecessary -- you can take the farmhouses easily in a straight fight. The flanking approach avoids all the emplaced British artillery pieces and the farmhouses, which are the most likely to rout your units. It does use up valuable time marching to flanking position and waiting for the British charge, and if you don't kill the incoming units quickly enough, there is a chance of being squashed between the Prussian remnant and the charging British.

This

Mass everything on your left, break through, move your 6 lber forward and all cavalry forward, take up a defensive position, let the AI come at you.

I'm feeling pretty bad right now. On my first play through campaign Waterloo, I killed Duke Wellington with my first volley of artillery but still lost .

Ugh, I tried having my infantry fight through the house on the left and lost some important units there... should have destroyed them with artillery probably.

Just rush the houses....


Uploaded with ImageShack.us