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Formation order rework


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Formation order rework  

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  1. 1. What would be the best order units be placed within a formation?

    • Infantry first then Cavalry
    • Cavarly first then Infantry
  2. 2. What would be the best order units be placed within a formation?

    • Citizen-Soldiers then Champion then Hero at the back
    • Champion then Citizen-Soldiers then Hero at the back
    • Hero in front, then Champion then Citizen-Soldier
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11 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

Assuming you had ten healers, where would they be?

Unchanged. At the back, as all units that we don't sort. We could define a position for them if you suggest one / want to make a point, but very likely the current is fine right.

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Cavalry was always at the fore-front in every major historical battle. So, cavalry first, then infantry.

Champions are tougher, so they maybe should be in front of CS in a formation.

Another logic would be that CS are a good fodder, so we should place CS in front of champions. This is also more historically accurate, as many armies reserved their elite troops for later engagements, when the enemy was exhausted by "fodder".

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The logic of having cavalry in the back is to allow it to move through the sides.

The problem of having it in the front is that you don't want to send your cavalry first into a spearmen shield wall (which is the dominant historical form).

 

Move formation ("column" in napoleonian warfare) should have cavalry in the front but combat formation ("line") have it in the back.

Except for specific formations, of course.

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