Orphydian Posted July 27, 2022 Report Share Posted July 27, 2022 where can I find some good up to date tutorials or vids (maybe replays where formations are successfully used?) on this topic of formations and micromanaging your units in general? Aside from this, some initial clarifications: what is the relation between stances (aggressive, passive etc.) and formations and how they affect each other? what is a "default" formation (the one enabled with right click)? what is the attack move order more exactly? etc. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted July 27, 2022 Report Share Posted July 27, 2022 37 minutes ago, Orphydian said: Aside from this, some initial clarifications: what is the relation between stances (aggressive, passive etc.) and formations and how they affect each other? what is a "default" formation (the one enabled with right click)? what is the attack move order more exactly? There is no relation between stances and formation. The default formation is the one units will turn to by default when selecting groups of units and odering them to move. Attack move is a command that asks units to attack everything between where they are and their destination. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphydian Posted July 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2022 so, the default formation is only for the move, not when fighting or attacking? Can this be changed under Options>Game session>Formation control? Instead of "Walk/Patrol Only" should be set to "No Override"? Anyway, thank you very much. I watched some competitive multiplayer replays but I haven't seen too much use of formation or any insight about them. Do you know any uploaded on yt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alre Posted July 27, 2022 Report Share Posted July 27, 2022 (edited) probably already been written many times, but yeah: - right click on "no formation" in order to have no formation in use by default (current default is very bad for competitive play, and it's going to be worse in next alpha) - only use formations to regroup your men quickly, especially at the beginning of an engagement (usually after first contact happened without any use of formations) - end formations immediately after you created it. never leave units in formation while they are fighting. you can use attack-move for that, because attack-move immediately disbands any formation. Edited July 27, 2022 by alre 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphydian Posted July 27, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2022 nice tip on attack move alre! so, you prefer attack move to move your men altogether in a minimum coordinate matter rather than use formations I suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki1950 Posted July 28, 2022 Report Share Posted July 28, 2022 It has been stated more than once in this thread that formations just do not work all during an attack more work on formations is required before anyone can/should use them ATM they are just sketches ant very much a work in progress. Enjoy the Choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy5995 Posted July 28, 2022 Report Share Posted July 28, 2022 8 hours ago, alre said: probably already been written many times, but yeah: Section about formations in the FAQ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_tabasco_sauce Posted July 30, 2022 Report Share Posted July 30, 2022 On 27/07/2022 at 10:22 AM, Orphydian said: Do you know any uploaded on yt? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWgSzCK6CoFgSdbPiKGmJ4A 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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