Not sure how this 18th C evolution could be treated in the 18th C in Cossacks. But I make too many long posts so this is a short one. It was more complicated than this summary of course. Over the 18th C and early 19th C up until Waterloo, 1814, infantry musket and bayonet tactics evolved from first favouring column attacks, often relying on cold steel shock tactics with little musket firing at all, to more line firing tactics as employed by Wellington. Having said that, if a cavalry feint forces enemy infantry into squares and they can then be attacked with artillery or advancing columns then the squares are in real trouble. If the infantry have the numbers, formation and discipline they hold off the cavalry relatively easily.
In real history ,when infantry is holding off cavalry the situation for the infantry depends on dense massing, formation (square or blob not line) and maintaining morale/discipline. Certainly in Davout's OC Mod dragoon masses came off second best if they took on large 18th C musket infantry formations which is historically correct. Nor were real dragoons like those depicted in C1 with just muskets or carbines.
Yes, the C1 game model did not get cold steel to musket relativities correct.
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