When Fighting The Spanish?

[Benny Moore]

After you have a formation the way you want it, make it a group, or ungroup it and regroup it if it already is, and they will stay in that group for the rest of the battle. Actaully, they may fall out of the group on the way there (for example the cavalry will outrun the infantry), but whenever you order them somewhere, the group will end up in the same formation.

They should have explained this in the manual.

[*Ringo*]

I believe there is some information in the manual about grouping and unit facing but i can't be sure.

In terms of adjusting unit depth you can click and drag obviously but i prefer to use the + & - keys. (dunno if it's different keys on other keyboards but mine is a UK one, check the manual) Remember though if you grouped the units before you change their depth, once moved, they will return to their original formation. What i do to get around this is select the group, adjust unit depth (using + & -), select a formation (shift-1 for example), then press "G" twice. This will un-group then group them in the new formation & unit depth. I have become quite adept at maneuvering infantry, most of my generals now have the Infantry Commander of Genius trait.

Hope this helps.

[derF]

My experiece against the Spanish wasnt realy troublesome at all.

They had large numbers and thats about it. They ended up becoming my protectorate.