sub-groups gone post FOTS?

**Slaists** · April 03, 2012, 06:54 PM

I have not played S2 for a while. Before FOTS it was possible to create sub-groups within your main army by selecting a bunch of units (let's say bows) and pressing CTRL + [F1-F4]. Then, it was possible to recall the sub-group (while maintaining the main group) later by pressing F1.

Now, since the FOTS patch, it does not seem to work. Has this feature been removed?

**daniu** · April 04, 2012, 01:56 AM

Yes, that is gone.

However, one of the advantages of this - the simple single line formation - can now be applied for normal groups by pressing Ctrl-g (to either create the group or after creation).

**Slaists** · April 04, 2012, 08:10 AM

That, ummm, sucks. I liked to control my flanks with subgroups. Oh well...

Thanks for the response.

**Gaizokubanou** · April 04, 2012, 06:11 PM

It's there.

Just use 1 ~ 9 instead of the F keys. I never even knew it worked with the F keys lol

At least that's what I think that you wanted.

**Slaists** · April 05, 2012, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by Gaizokubanou

It's there.

Just use 1 ~ 9 instead of the F keys. I never even knew it worked with the F keys lol

At least that's what I think that you wanted.

It's not the same thing. Pre-patch, you could create a group (using keys 1 ~ 9), set it to a marching (or whatever) formation and then proceed and create sub-groups (using F1-F4) within the group. That way you could have an army marching as a whole, but then different parts of that army performing separate actions (left flank, right flank, center, etc.). Later, the whole army would return to the starting formation. By the way, pre-patch, F1-F4 was a way to get certain parts of your formation to form a single line upon reaching their target (while preserving the original overall formation in memory).