Formation.

[Hanny]

Since the horde formation is removed in TLR, i thought it would be usfull to resuse it.

open up the battlefield folder, in side that is a formation folder that contains a horde TGA, a black field with green dots, this is teh horder formation, a dot represent a man.

find the centre point, remove all the other dots.

make your custom formation, it could be a generic for all formation like this, that represents a double line.


0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000c0000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000


0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

make sure you have more dots than men in your most numerous unit as the cpc fills up from the C, which is the centre point and puts men in a circular manner from there.

or you might want the english LB herce formation, which you add a formation of foot to the rear to as a combination, or which you can then use for mounted wedges of multiple points, so that instead of a one massive wedge, you get multiple wedges.


0000000000000000000c00000000000000000000000
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

or any combination to represent a foirmation you want, add the horde foprmation to the unit ability in units file and observe what it does.

[tornnight]

Neat have you actually tried this? Never heard of it.

[Hanny]

yep it works.

I tried it for a Byz cav unit of 20, which gave 3 wedges, and was very impresive visually, very manouverable on the field and each man in combat gets the wedge bounus, i then tried it on a huge formation and found a pathing problem that occurs, the formation is keyed to manouver from the centre point and on large/huge units cause it to bcome extremly unmanouverable due to its pathing routine, so small units only is my finding so far. I also tried a triple line of van/main body/rearguard which works ok, the van is the smallest and fills up losses by moving men from the rear to replace any losses, which is neat, and a huge gap between the parts of the unit can cause it to be broken in combat before it brings most of its men into contact.

also i cant get other custom formtaions to function, so im thinking that the horde is the only one you can define yourself and reuse, rather than all of them with custom tga`s.

[tornnight]

If you keep toying around and find a nice formation, you should release a seperate mod for it. I'm sure many people would love a new formation.

Personally I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to work on it. My todo list is full.