When you are defending a position is there anyway the developers can change/alter/fix/or do something to keep line inf in place after a successful melee while defending? I am finding it very hard to hold a contiunous line of battle after the attackers charges my line and loses a melee fight.
I just had a game where one of my brigades just held off a melee attack and proceeded to either 1. Chase them or 2. Could not disengage from that federal brigade. The results were my brigade getting to far out from my defensive line (heavy woods) and ran into the open (all the while still chasing this fleeing unit) which resulted in about 3-4 federal brigades owning it. Safe to say that unit got decimated and fell back losing close to 200men in one volley.
this is just fustrating to no end. As soon as I see a unit winning a melee I try to hit retreat, fallback, or manual move them back with nothing working. Something has to be done with this, because it's just down right unhistorical. Regiments/brigades did not go chasing down fleeing units while defending a very good postion from an attacker, while a sea of blue or grey uniforms is not far behind in the rear. Thoughts?