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[Agravain of Orkney]

but to be honest its a real fag having to redraw them all to get them into some sort of ordered formation

Agreed Kyodai. Would be a whole lot easier if you could just CTRL+A to select everything and then just draw it once on the map, while having everything retain their original groups, spacing, facing, etc. Both methods described in this thread have their advantages and drawbacks. Guess it comes down to individual comfort in the end.

[Dionysus9]

Agreed Kyodai. Would be a whole lot easier if you could just CTRL+A to select everything and then just draw it once on the map, while having everything retain their original groups, spacing, facing, etc. Both methods described in this thread have their advantages and drawbacks. Guess it comes down to individual comfort in the end.

Thats why I use the single-group-army, because you CAN just select it all and draw it out on the map, and it retains formation, and you draw the facing you want. . . only works if its (G)rouped though, and only one single group will work at a time.

As Dreadlahll says, they got rid of "groups within groups" which generally means that you either do it Agras way (many small groups, but no "full army formation"), or my way (one big group that retains formation, but no sub groups).

If they had retained the old dual group system (numbered groups being distinct from "G"roups that are visually linked) we could combine both methods much more easily and regain some semblance of control over our armies.

We tried to get at this in the Petition and I only hope they picked up on it.

[Sid_Quibley]

I remember quotes from ca saying that in rome you would have to anticipate more in where you order your troops to move.

One big group responds more precisely than drawing several groups maybe this is a reflection on their idea of chain of command(or lack of it in ancient times)

Remember this is not vi.

[Cheetah]

I hope this is not to suggest that vikings had better chain of command than roman armies

[KyodaiSteeleye]

Indeed not - if we were ever dealing with realism, then in MTW we'd be allowed 3 'battles' (groups) tops, and once you'd given them some orders, that would be it

Trouble is at the moment, I can hardly anticipate where my troops are going to end up at all (half the time they wonder off and do the their own thing :) )

[Sid_Quibley]

Lol point taken.

[AK_SG]

Refering to what sweetzero mentioned about running command. I did it quite easily by doing the below
- lets say all your units r in grp 1, u right click or drag them to the location u want them to march to, then ungroup them (while they are still walking), press r key, all ya troops will start running by now and then ctrl A n group them back. So all will be running by now even in group.