Quote Originally Posted by Jaeld View Post
They had been in a standard formation about 4 ranks deep. Now, they respond to my advance by spreading out into a single rank, as wide as possible, and THEN lay stakes at this maximum width. Then they return to a more standard formation, now safely behind a really wide barrier of stakes that also happens to block off almost the entire valley (though I'm still not sure whether they were intentionally standing in the narrowest part, or just happened to be there...until they spanned it with stakes there was still plenty of room to have encircled them anyway)


This is not so much a function of the AI being clever rather than a feature of the special ability...


Try with your own light infantry,whatever shape they are in they will exapnad to maximum width before deploying the stakes and then return to their original formation...