A NIfty Trick... (using Groups)

[Al Amos]

Y'all probably know this one already, but I just found it today.

The trick is issuing a group move then going to the leader, and hitting the 'cancel individual order'. It worked the group moved while the leader stayed in place.

How I see this trick being useful is to issue a group move, then cancel the leader's movement, and then given him an individual order one hex less than the group. This should, and it did in my tests, keep the leader from running out in front of his group and getting killed off.

It will really help when you want one or two units to do something other than what the group is doing. So if you have a group of 10 units, and you want one unit to do something different, instead of issuing 10 individual orders, you can issue a group order, then go to the unit you want to change, and cancel just that unit's order, by hitting the 'cancel individual order' button, and then issue the unit its unique order. Could save time.

.... and the create a new group feature is great. If you have a group lose its leader, you can attach another leader to it, or merge the leaderless group with another group, etc. It is very easy to do, and it allows you all kind of flexibility in managing your army.

I'll post more on group movements as I figure them out.

Please post any tricks or helpful tidbits on how you use groups. We're all learning this engine together.