Quote Originally Posted by Lysander13 View Post
The code for guard mode is prevalent in all formations.
Pardon me for qouting myself. I do so only to retract the above comment. As it is completely false. Konny and TWF got me curious about this again as it's been awhile since i really played around with this and i posted really out of memory as oppose to fact. So i played around with it a bit last night. First of all, the code for guard mode is not prevalent in all formations...ie...EB, Darth, Sinuhet, & Vanilla. As a matter of fact here's the actual breakdown of how many times guard mode is called for in the code in the various formations.

Sinuhet Formations: 174
Darth Formations: 38
EB Formations: 5
Vanilla Formations: 0

Obviously, this is a big difference and by definition Konny is absolutely correct. Sinuhet does call for it more. A few things to note here are that the Sinuhet file is significantly bigger than the other 3. Especially EB's and Vanilla's. So there are more fomations and oppurtunities to call for guard mode.....here's the thing though. In messing around and running a few tests last night. The AI still has the ability to call for guard mode, whether the code is in the formation or not, when the defend flag is toggled in the formation set. Which is why i remembered it happening in all formations and from faulty memory claimed the code was prevalent in all them. Which of course from looking at the above numbers is absolutely incorrect. The question for me here is, especially since i use Sinuhet Formations...How much better off will the AI be if one doesn't call for guard mode at all or very little in the formation file and leave it totally to the AI? Really, i'm just talking about Sinuhet Formations here since the other 3 use it very little if at all. Darth Formations uses it only for the Greek and Makedonian Formations for the most part by the way, with phalanx units featuring heavily.

This may require a bit of testing....Gah!! Testing formations is so annoying.....