[PhilD]

Originally posted by Pocus:
a note on archer targetting : I see that all of you are speaking of screening your light troops with a rank of heavier shielded units.

You should take a second look to the tac AI, the archers jumped from 30 IQ to normal intelligence in dom2. No more you can fool them with 6 swamp guards ahead of 50 LI !

a good thing by the way

OK, but then, how do you instruct your archers to target these LI behind the screen?

I mean, there is no "fire at second line" order. You can order to fire at archers, but what if the units you want to target are NOT archers?

(One other thing that puzzles me in the orders system is, there is apparently no way to order a set of squads to "keep formation" - sometimes I'd like a group of Hoplites to just move forward as much as the crossbowmen behind them need to get in range, but I can't find a way to do this - so in the end the Hoplites charge forward, get tired, and start getting friendly fire from the crossbowmen... )