I posted this in th other topic but this applies here very much, so here it is again:
"What I do is something like this (H/H): minimum 2 artillery, like 6 inf, 2 cav + general. (numbers vary ofcourse)
Then carefully position your arty on the corner end of the fort and slighly out of range, deploy the rest of your army behind them preferably behind a hill/natural cover. Then start shooting and destroying with the arty one side of the fort making one or two openings next to each other. This takes some time and you must have patience or just skip forward but beware of flanking enemy cavalry as they will try to attack the artillery while your infantry is a bit back behind cover.
Move your line infantry and artillery very close on the OUTSIDE of the pieces you've blown away. Switch to canister shot and wait till the enemy starts coming out one by one. If they dont come out on their own move a small unit to the opening and start harassing them by firing a few shots in, then running away.
This has worked for me any time when I play level h/h, dont know if it will work vh/vh though.
By the way, don't worry about the arty being out of range, if you position them well, the shots hit and you don't get shot at by the enemy guns. DO NOT lose the artillery, they are crucial in this because of the canister shots later on. "
Made a quick paint for this:
And then:
My experience is the enemy will move off the walls and just stand in front of the opening and not shoot you from the other side which I left intact.[This message has been edited by L_Clan_Xerxes (edited 05-06-2010 @ 00:21 AM).]