defensive posture

[BigDuke66]

Well question is if optional rules like column passthrough fire do something, I still don't now how the fire is spread and/or scaled to other units with that rule. Same counts for melee as you attack a hex and not a specific unit, how is the melee damage spread?

One thing has to be considered, skirmisher stacked with a formed unit are likely unable to benefit from the usual modifiers:
- If Skirmisher and total stacking in hex is not above 1/8 of maximum stacking they just receive 25% of the normal Fire Value.
- Skirmishers defending in melee against non-Skirmisher attackers(only if defenders stacking is below 1/8 of the maximum stacking limit in the target hex)the skirmisher gets 1/5 losses of the normal value.
The 1/8 stacking limit is usually 225 men but a skirmisher unit with a battalion together in a hex is surely bigger than that.
So the skirmishers are treated as a normal unit and get normal fire value and normal melee losses, maybe that sucks away damage that the battalion usually would have gotten.