Quote Originally Posted by Sdragon
It is annoying, the thing you have to remember is that the formations are pre planned. The Romanii formations are in EB but the problem is that the game decides the pre battle formation based off unit types. ie, heavy infantry, Light infantry, ect. Early Triarii being a phalanx unit causes the game to pick a more phalanx style army. The problem goes once you get the reforms and the more mobile Triarii. A good example of this is a Galic army I made that had some light but mostly heavy infantry, I was quite surprised when they took to the field in chessboard manipularii...
Sorry but I don´t understand your answer well. Do you mean that the game has the chessboard formation but you have only the formations that the game chooses for you prebattle? If I have early triarii I won´t have it as the game chooses for me a phalanx style army. So if I have an only cohortes legion I should see the chessboard button? I am gonna test it in custom battles ASAP.