Tactics Questions - Line and Column, Stacked or Not Stacked

[pokeytrev]

Good point about the phases ... I usually let my opposite number choose the options. I forgot how it worked the last time I was playing in phases (the last full battles were of Rossbach in SYW).

Columns though -for the Napoleonic Wars period, is probably right - that column is the best formation to attack from (excepting for the British in post French Revolutionary titles) - meaning that they are talking about an assault column which is different than columns for movement along roads.  Of course, they make for a big target.

What's interesting is I can't help but think back to movies seen over time of line approaching line (attacking or defending). When I think of a column, I think of a marching column and less firepower. It seems so strange to think of a column running through a line.