Talk:Musketeer/@comment-181.44.143.90-20170202200547

If you pay attention to the stats of Musketeers (Heavy Infantry) and Skirmishers (Light Infantry), Musketeers have a x2.25 attack multipler in Melee combat against Light Infantry (over the base Melee attack of 13), but Skirmishers only have a x2.0 Melee combat multiplier against Heavy Infantry (over a base Melee attack of 6). This means that Skirmishers do 12 damage to Musketeers on Melee, but Musketeers do 29 damage vs Skirmishers. Musketeers are actually good against Skirmishers on Melee combat, when the opposite is true in range combat.

TL;DR, if your army of Musketeers is ambushed by Skirmishers, you can still win by activating the Melee option and charge. I have tested this myself, and it works.