Greetings. This is my first post on this forum.
I love Total War(only have Medieval 2 and Empire), and I've been playing a lot of ETW recently(I tend to play France).
Recently, I made this defensive formation and it just doesn't work against the AI. I've made multiple iterations, tried it around 4 times, yet it always fails, even though I'm so confident it can work. This is what it looks like: B B G G LI L L L L L L LI L G G GEN G G
That is- B: Bulkeley's Regiment
L: Line Infantry
LI: Light Infantry
G: Grenadiers
G: Garde Du Corps(elite French cav, same as Life Guards)
So, what happens is, every time I make this, the enemy always targets a specific side(NOT FLANK). For example, they'll completely ignore my left half and concentrate all their forces on my right. I'll re-position my left to encircle them, yet they crush my fairly quickly(so quickly in fact that I'm forced to use that one reserve Line very early on and even that gets defeated). So I end up always being sort of separated and unable to support any losing infantry and get separated, and end up losing, even after killing their general. I use the light(chasseurs, or however it's spelled), to harass enemy infantry, defeat their cav with my cav, get a few good charges into the back of their infantry, but I still lose.
Even if they don't target a particular side and come head-on, they still end up winning.
What am I doing wrong?