A NIfty Trick... (using Groups)

[Dog Soldier]

Great post! This will help in trying to recover units which wander outside the leader's command range. Being able to move the leader to bring the wayward unit back into command (and remove the fixed flag) is a problem I run into quite often.

Too bad the engine only checks for command range at the beginning of a turn instead at the beginning of each of the movement phases inside the turn. If the engine did the latter, I could give a wayward unit a command to help it rejoin the group.

Example: phase one: pause
phase two: pause (by now I guess the unit will be back in the command range of the leader)
phase three: move towards the rest of the group and leader

As it is now, the wayward unit is lost to fixed status for one full turn assuming the leader can stray far enough out to recover the wayward fixed unit while not losing another unit to fixed status at the other end of the group formation.

Dog Soldier