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hitodama,
It works well to select a small group, and click ahead to the left or right to turn them, but doing this with the whole army, as ElmarkOFear was asking, is very hard to get right. You have to estimate where you want the center of the formation to end up. In fact, the only use that I've found for rotating the entire army is if you are flanked by the enemy army. You can rotate to face the enemy.
Slychaos,
I've seen the reordering of units you're talking about, but only in custom battle as the attacker where you can't draw out your unit groups. When online, I'll group and drag the group into a line during deployment. Whatever reordering is going to take place seems to take place instantly at that time.
Link Shumeisan,
The F1 status screen was broken by the v1.11 patch, and not fixed in v1.12. I used to use it quite a bit when it worked. The mistake is something silly like honor value is not being added to column 1 (attack), but instead subtracted from column 2 (defense). I figured it out once, and posted about it, but I think that was on the old Sword Dojo. It would be nice to have it corrected.
Methabaron,
I wish I had a "windows" key to try it. Right now, my biggest problem with moving units around is missing the unit I want to click on. That makes the unit I just finished nicely positioning start moving to some completly rediculous spot. This can be a big problem if the game is lagging. I also just changed keyboards where the CTRL key is now where the ALT key used to be. Some fun! http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
hoichi,
Interesting info on the formations.
MizuYuuki ~~~
Clan Takiyama ~~~
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Anssi,
When I said Army Formations I meant just the Historical Formations, as opposed to the Group Formations. I think Army Formations would be the correct term. The AI isn't supposed to be using the them, for some reason.
And I was talking about being able to switch to one of the Army Formations after deployment. Maybe I start in Arrowhead, and see that Crane would fit the situation better. The Group Formations just don't do it for your whole army.
