Gunpowder infantry should be deployed in two ranks. That said you usually have to accept a certain amount of friendly causalities when using guns as their tactics usually have them behind something else. They can’t arc their fire like archers and if you fire into a melee with your gunners behind your own troops you’ll hit your own and because of gunpowder’s morale penalty you could easily rout your own men. When using gunpowder you can and will hit your own troops. Massed heavy infantry are exactly the sort of target gunners should be used against as they are slow to reach the musketeers and heavily armoured. Aquebusiers are less powerful against armor than musketeers but still far better than most things, and handgunner bullets are the weakest armor piercers. Muskets are deadliest at this as they can pierce any armor. Gunfire also inflicts great damage on armoured and unarmoured units alike as it goes stight though armor. Any enemy that take casualties from gunpowder units suffers a large morale penalty and they will rout quite easily. The second thing to remember about gunpowder is that it scares the crap out of the enemy. It doesn’t matter how close the enemy gets, the closer they are the more devastating their vollies will become. When using gunpowder you want to let the units get set up, leave skirmish off and not move them until you absolutely have to, so they can volley fire uninterrupted and as quickly as possible. Gunpowder is a slow unwieldy weapon and units that use it fire slowly and take time to get into formation. The first thing to remember with gunpowder infantry is they aren’t meant to run around and skirmish like archers.
When used properly gunpowder can be a truly deadly force, able to crush the most heavily armoured troops easily and cause mass routs, but when it’s used poorly gunpowder can be very useless, especially with all the bugs in game related to gunpowder units.
Gunpowder is a hard unit to use for some people. As the great old Pedo H Bear himself once said "It's a coming." the unworldly firepower that leaps from these treacherous cannons of science and metallurgy cares not who you are, it just cares that your in the way. and as a famous man once said."all men learn to face death, none learn to face the rapist".this is true for you and your enemy. the heavy handed firearms of the early medieval period to the late period can be described in short as walking nightmares, to you and your enemy. Bigga, Flashier and more Orkyier than ever.
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