Square formation?

[peacemaker]

heh. Lots of interesting discussion about the square so far. Still, even if you can't break the square with the cavalry charge, you could just go and shoot 'em up with a bunch of infantry. Point is, the square is effective against cavalry but is not invincible.

[crazyviking03]

I dont know if anyone has seen, I couldnt find group formations on the demo UI lol, but I hope we can group our infantry companies into groups of 4 and have them form a larger square. If we have to do it manually, it shouldn't be an issue since all it is doing is denying the enemy a flank, instead of adding some kind of defense bonus, that I know of anyway.

[quadalpha]

I dont know if anyone has seen, I couldnt find group formations on the demo UI lol, but I hope we can group our infantry companies into groups of 4 and have them form a larger square. If we have to do it manually, it shouldn't be an issue since all it is doing is denying the enemy a flank, instead of adding some kind of defense bonus, that I know of anyway.

Group formations is a little button on the right hand side next to the rotate formation buttons. It's only clickable when you've selected a group, and I don't think it's in the "minimal" UI. I don't remember seeing a square formation, though.

[Phog_of_War]

I do remember a battle I had in Med 2 where the AI, inexplicably went into a shiltrom formation and just stayed like that. I was not cavalry heavy, maybe 4 units max in a full stack, but I had some arty with me.

Those formations made big fat targets for my cannon. I imagine the square formation would be the same. I havent had an occation to put line companys in square formation yet but I have seen it practiced in reenactments so I know what it looks like.



Learn to use your cannons right people! This is the age when artillery earned the name, The King of Battle. Artillery is the new cavalry.