Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
This is one of the weakeness of RTW unfortunately. Spear/phalanx units should benefit greatly from depth, but do not--they should also really suffer from lack of depth. Archers should suffer from depth but do not (except for some range/skirmish penalties at extreme depths.) MTW did both aspects better.
Likewise, when I order a unit of archers to target a unit, my orders apply to all the archers in my unit. Unfortunately, in MTW, very often it was the case that only the front rank fired because the second and/or third were still out of range and the whole unit would now stop instead of moving until all were in range!!! That is stupid and was an annoying bug. This was a problem that could get your archer/pav unit into deficit quite quickly and leave you at a disadvantage. MTW spears were about as much good as a chocolate fire guard

.......Orda