If you see a wall, will run at the wall and slam it with your body? Or will you try and go around a wall?
There is a brace feature in NW as far as I know, just crouch and turn to melee mode. The fact tyat tactics like squares dont work in NW is because the horse doesnt have any brains at all in the game compared to in real life. As soon as you press E on the horse you become his brain. Users in NW would run into the square cause the horse doesnt react at what it should in real life. So basically the user just jumps into the circle and kills. In real life the horse would stop infront of the line of bayonets or run around. In NW the brainless horse follows what the brainless user does without hesitation.