Should formations be edited? (opinions?)

[Red Harvest]

The one I was supposed to add in my reply

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=50464

Thanks, I tried hunting for it a bit, but missed it.

About the formation...does the "front" change when you move the unit, or does it always retain the same compass heading on the battlefield? If so, then oblong wouldn't work even if I could make it so, because if the army did a 90 degree turn the unit would then be stuck 90 degrees out of phase.

[The_Mark]

Correct. It's really a shame, as a wedge made with the horde formation works very neatly. Another thing to take into account is that routing units use the horde formation as well; when testing a harde-wedge I got routers in disciplined wedges that always pointed north...