[st.patrik]

The following posted by Pocus in the 'bug' topic:

Originally posted by Pocus:
while we are at battle orders, I have a request:

Can we have units on bodyguard order fire their missiles weapons? We had already a discussion on the newsgroup about that, but got no feeback from IW, so perhaps there is a design decision about this.

My opinion is that allowing units on bodyguard to fire missiles would fix 2 problems at once:

1- it dont appears logical that - say velites - on bodyguards never use their pilum.

2 - more importantly, it would fix the problem of seeing our archers running to the front to get in range of the enemy, just to be caught in melee the next round because of advancing opponents. In essence, this would allow the much requested order of :

'fire, or stand still until you have somebody in range, you stupid archers!'.

Thank you for your time.

I see two things there:

1. Soldiers with "guard commander" orders fire their missile weapons if an enemy is within range

2. New command for missile units: Hold or Fire

which I will add if that's ok with you Pocus