Colovion
08-03-2005, 20:51
During many battles in the Total War genre I have come across the frustration of having a problem with showing my men exactly what to do. Largely this comes from the Unit spectrum where you can tell a unit what to do but largely the men inside the Unit will follow in a Flock pattern and won't go outside of that scripting to stick with their unit.
I believe that this system is very good, but can be improved upon very easily. This will increase the ability to manipulate your troops in battle and throw us Generals with absurd micro-management needs another bone in terms of tactical control ability.
Let's say you have a unit being attacked and there is a hole about to show in your lines and then on the other side of this unit you have a full block of soldiers simply standing there, waiting. If you want to fill that hole before the enemy gets through you have the option of effectively removing the unit from combat, making them shift over to fill the hole (while being hacked apart by the enemy) or trying to pivot the unit into position (while being hacked apart by the enemy). There has to be a better way to fill holes in the line with units in combat without having to sustain the casualties from units on the front line. Why not impliment something which makes it possible for those soldiers in combat to remain so, and have soldiers which are not fighting shift their focus to better support their mates?
It could be as easy as using the middle-click on the mouse scroll wheel, or alternatively, pressing a certain key on the keyboard while having the unit selected and then right or left click somewhere near the unit. After this is performed the unit does not stop attacking to do the action - those soldiers in combat would remain so, and those soldiers which are not performing an activity would shift their focus over to the area in question.
You could click on an area around the enemy's flank, some place inside your lines, and your soldiers would re-adjust their positioning to fill those areas. It would make it easier if when you click near an enemy unit and your unit is already in combat, the repositioning soldiers will attack automatically. LIkewise, if they are being redistributed to fill a hole in your lines they will plug the gap firstly, and attack secondly.
A lot of rambling, but hopefully CA will take a look and see if it's a plausible solution to losing dozens of soldiers when you wish to relocate your men - kind of an intangible Captain feature.
:balloon2: :bow:
I believe that this system is very good, but can be improved upon very easily. This will increase the ability to manipulate your troops in battle and throw us Generals with absurd micro-management needs another bone in terms of tactical control ability.
Let's say you have a unit being attacked and there is a hole about to show in your lines and then on the other side of this unit you have a full block of soldiers simply standing there, waiting. If you want to fill that hole before the enemy gets through you have the option of effectively removing the unit from combat, making them shift over to fill the hole (while being hacked apart by the enemy) or trying to pivot the unit into position (while being hacked apart by the enemy). There has to be a better way to fill holes in the line with units in combat without having to sustain the casualties from units on the front line. Why not impliment something which makes it possible for those soldiers in combat to remain so, and have soldiers which are not fighting shift their focus to better support their mates?
It could be as easy as using the middle-click on the mouse scroll wheel, or alternatively, pressing a certain key on the keyboard while having the unit selected and then right or left click somewhere near the unit. After this is performed the unit does not stop attacking to do the action - those soldiers in combat would remain so, and those soldiers which are not performing an activity would shift their focus over to the area in question.
You could click on an area around the enemy's flank, some place inside your lines, and your soldiers would re-adjust their positioning to fill those areas. It would make it easier if when you click near an enemy unit and your unit is already in combat, the repositioning soldiers will attack automatically. LIkewise, if they are being redistributed to fill a hole in your lines they will plug the gap firstly, and attack secondly.
A lot of rambling, but hopefully CA will take a look and see if it's a plausible solution to losing dozens of soldiers when you wish to relocate your men - kind of an intangible Captain feature.
:balloon2: :bow: