Two questions - defensive stance / UI scaling

[Krosis Priest]

Hello, mostly AoE2/3 player, started playing 4 now and enjoying myself, but there's just two things that bother me a bit and after digging through options five times, I cannot find:
- Is there something like a "defensive stance" for units? It feels like they're all "aggressive" by default and tend to go Leeroy Jenkins when I don't want them to far too easily. Stand ground also seems like just something you can temporarily toggle and not a permanent stance? Are there any additional options here?
- Is there UI scaling or at least transparency hidden somewhere to make it take a bit less screen space? On 1920x1080 and 27" it feels a bit too obtrusive, and it seems the only settings available are "even bigger".

Thanks in advance for any help.

[dynatierchen]

micro if u dont want to use V

[Krosis Priest]

I know how to micro, but micro is for making units do things, not stop them from constantly trying to suicide.

[Ragnarr Loðbrók]

no stance system of aoe4 sucks compared to the previous ones,. their is just 1 stance it*'s highly frustating how it works...

[Krosis Priest]

Alright, thanks, just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything. I guess I'll have a habit of hitting V eventually.

(Anything about the UI, though? Config files or anything? It's not *really* bad but I would definitely like a slightly smaller scale)

[FloosWorld]

Originally posted by Krosis:

(Anything about the UI, though? Config files or anything? It's not *really* bad but I would definitely like a slightly smaller scale)

Modifying the UI via config files is sadly as of now not possible.