!! I'm so glad! You've been pushing for battalion system, I've been hoping you'll take a look at this!    Yes, I'm not entirely sure of the direction I would take from here. The battalions are using, as you might have guessed, barely modified UnitAI and Formation code as normal battles/vanilla 0A.D. So currently, the way you could do it is simply to have units in stand-ground stance. While playing the campaign, I had opportunities where it made sense : for example ranged units on high ground defending the acropolis, phalanx formation to defend a choke-point.. Example reproduction of the scene : Here I switched units into stand-ground so the melee block the choke-point and ranged units stay behind. The battalion cohesion (blue bar above the formation) gives extra bonus : The phalanx gives ~+5 armor but -50% speed at full cohesion. The ranged units get +20% attack range due to staying at high cohesion, and even more from terrain.   So now I'm wondering : Is it worth rewriting all UnitAI and Formation code, (more work; diverging too much from base 0A.D.; unknown difficulties)? OR Keep it, and try to embrace the gameplay impact. But of course, it's not going to play exactly like TotalWar games. I tend to want the second more (also because I'm lazy) but it's possible I'll come to realize it's going to have too much cons.

Does it look like this https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7572 ?

tried this... what else can i try      

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