New command: dont kill women

[Zezil]

Why this? couse wasting your damage on women while enemy soldiers kill your own army, kills the game.

10 women in the middle of the battle field, between 2 armies facing each other, will suck on them all the fire. In the while, your men die under enemy fire. In a18, where rangeds vs rangeds battle are very fast, even 3 shots make a huge difference.

Just test in the atlas. 15 archers vs 15 archers + 1 woman, the army with the woman wins and saves 7 archers on average ( archers have "accuracy" to be taken into account, so outcome is not always the same)

And of course the more the women , the better. if women are 5, the winning side loses only 2 archers on average.

This is something that can be easily exploited , but maybe also easily fixed. Can a command be added , so that soldiers will have greater priority over women, for your army to target?

Mario

[greenknight32]

Seems to me that it should be automatic that your troops target enemy combatants first over women if both are in range..

Edited March 9, 2015 by greenknight32

[Zezil]

Yeah, either get a button , or as you suggested even better, just let soldiers be first priority if in range.

[zzippy]

...and if you add this, do not forget about the enemy sheep

[WhiteTreePaladin]

Seems like this could be covered by a stance. A neutral stance could involve attacking military but leave civilians alone.

[Alekusu]

The CTRL+Q right click could be used for that no ? Instead of just attacking units (no building) could be use to attack units (no building AND no woman)

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Hmm, what if game have "Policies" that give overall commands to your troop, economy, etc. Other example: force troops to focus on buildings instead of other troop, or the reverse. Macro policies. Just idea.

[Alekusu]

Yeah I like it too

Edit: We could use a series of CTRL + letter + right click for these "policies"

I see 3 "policies" for now:

- focus on women

- focus on army

- focus on building

If we do more I'm scared we'll take too much from the micro management during battles. (like focus only on range, or melee shouldn't be a "policy" but micro skill of the player)

Edited March 10, 2015 by Alekusu

[Giotto]

Yea, you wouldn't want your soldiers to continue attacking a building while getting killed.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Giotto actually are a shortcut to avoid Attack buildings

CTRL + Q + Clic

[Giotto]

Oh! That's great!

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Yeah I like it too

If we do more I'm scared we'll take too much from the micro management during battles. (like focus only on range, or melee shouldn't be a "policy" but micro skill of the player)

Right, policy is macro.

[Zezil]

I like the feedback guys, and you have very nice ideas.

I liked the stance idea particularly, couse it leaves open options to how to engage the fight: sometime is better to engage with stop button for example, and the stance idea leaves it viable.