Question about moving troops in the battlefield

[nameless]

I just remembered something, the first time I played RTW was when I was at a friend's house and he let me try it out. I remember vaguely about a command that told your troops to "march forward in formation" meaning that they won't break formation but march a couple dozen steps forward. I used this a couple times in the fight. A couple months later I bought the game in Hong Kong(Such a bargain for a legit copy ) I wasn't able to find the command anywhere in the manual or in the game. Anyone have any idea on this?

[Orda Khan]

One easy way of doing this is to group your entire army and then draw out your formation where you want it to move to by using right click and drag. Using this method still allows you to select individual units to attack or counter the enemy but selecting the group and drawing them out again puts them back in their original formation. They will remain in this formation until you ungroup them

....Orda

[nameless]

Yeah but sometimes they do weird things like run out of formation, then run back into. The command I'm talking about is basically, "All legions, forward." and is alot easier than the right click and drag. I'll have to see my friend about it again.

[TB666]

Well just group them and then right-click where you wanna go should do it.
But it won't be as precise as when you right-click and drag.

[nameless]

The problem with just right clicking is that most of the time it changes their positions completely.

[Zenicetus]

The command you might be looking for is 1) select the units you want (Ctrl-A if you want the whole army), then 2) hold down the Alt key and right click. That moves the army without changing the initial formation you've set.

I use this a lot, when moving the army forward in the initial engagement.