Lord Ovaat
04-02-2004, 16:36
In the years this forum has been running, I know this topic has had to come up. But I can't find exactly what I'm looking for. Besides, I want to whine.
If you are assaulting a fortification, you get to arrange your troops as you see fit, within the placement limitations. Any general who ever has gotten a chance to fight another battle has done this. However, when attacking on the regular battle map, you have very little choice--sometimes none. I can understand having to stay within the placement field, else you could set-up behind the enemy. The few battle arrangements you are offered by right-clicking the formation thingy, are fine, but you can't place that particular formation where you want it. Worse, regardless of the troops one has on the field, you often don't have all options available As often as not, you'll have one viable option, and all the rest revert to what amounts to column of companies. Great formation if your marching somewhere, or using a massed formation to drive the center, but the heavies aren't even in the front. Is this a glitch? It doesn't matter if I'm playing VI, Medieval, or a Mod. I've taken to accepting the column formation most of the time, hitting start, then immediately hitting pause to arrange my troops the way I want them. Is there something I'm missing here? If not, is there some way for the moding experts to correct this? Like maybe for the next version of Med Mod, or as a patch to the next version? If it works on castle maps, shouldn't it work on battle maps?
Gee, that was a nice whine. I feel better. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif
If you are assaulting a fortification, you get to arrange your troops as you see fit, within the placement limitations. Any general who ever has gotten a chance to fight another battle has done this. However, when attacking on the regular battle map, you have very little choice--sometimes none. I can understand having to stay within the placement field, else you could set-up behind the enemy. The few battle arrangements you are offered by right-clicking the formation thingy, are fine, but you can't place that particular formation where you want it. Worse, regardless of the troops one has on the field, you often don't have all options available As often as not, you'll have one viable option, and all the rest revert to what amounts to column of companies. Great formation if your marching somewhere, or using a massed formation to drive the center, but the heavies aren't even in the front. Is this a glitch? It doesn't matter if I'm playing VI, Medieval, or a Mod. I've taken to accepting the column formation most of the time, hitting start, then immediately hitting pause to arrange my troops the way I want them. Is there something I'm missing here? If not, is there some way for the moding experts to correct this? Like maybe for the next version of Med Mod, or as a patch to the next version? If it works on castle maps, shouldn't it work on battle maps?
Gee, that was a nice whine. I feel better. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif