New Opt Rule: Movement Threat

[phoenix]

Mmm. Not much response to this thread. I've actually stopped playing my Napoleonic titles for a bit now because I found that games - prior to the new rule - seemed to be mainly a rush to melee, and it all seemed a bit unhistorical. Then the new rule came but I couldn't get my head round precisely the things mentioned in TheGrayMouser's post above. I was all for a rule change which encouraged firing over melee, on historical grounds, but when I found it worked as mentioned above - so that infantry units were finding it difficult to get into firing range in good order, I gave up on it. But then everyone seemed to be using it in PBEM. Has that changed? Is everyone using the new rule in PBEM, or going without it? Is there only a couple of people unhappy with the way the new rule works - really? Just curious.