common sence. move as a formation

[Battle Beaver]

When I create an awesome looking formation I dont want to have to rebuild it right infront of the enemy. Seriously make movements as a formation possible like they stay in the same position -.-

[Zer0C00l]

+1 i seriously don't understand why the have removed the forward back left and right buttons from the battle hud

[Tex]

You can always put them in the formation, highlight them all, and lock the group/formation with the correct button on the bottom.

The one that shows 2 banners, click it and then click the one with a banner + lock. You can now move them and keep the formation. Sure it's a bit more work than the arrows in previous games, but it works.

[BrotherGRim]

its there....create a formation and and then lock it. From then on they'll move in that formation

[Snorri Nosebiter]

Originally posted by TheHound:

When I create an awesome looking formation I dont want to have to rebuild it right infront of the enemy. Seriously make movements as a formation possible like they stay in the same position -.-

Select your units and press Ctrl +G. Every movement you make with that group will maintain its formation.

This was all covered in the prologue.

You did pay attention to the prologue, right?

[Kalvix]

The problem is that its a bit fiddly, you either force them to stay as a group in formation in which case you can't change the length of the formation and its not very accurate in positioning them, if you dont force them to stay in a group though then as soon as you use the easier method to place them they move into a random formation again

. Would be nice if you could make them stay in a formation in terms of position of units BUT alter the length easilly, and a command to make them charge forwards in a line and attack who they meet first WITHOUT coming out of formation would be nice. Its so annoying having to tell each unit 1 by 1 who to attack cos if you don't they all form a mega blob on 1 unit

[merlance]

Use the numpad or the direction keys to do it

[DayShine]

Originally posted by Mr Eyl:

Originally posted by TheHound:

When I create an awesome looking formation I dont want to have to rebuild it right infront of the enemy. Seriously make movements as a formation possible like they stay in the same position -.-

Select your units and press Ctrl +G. Every movement you make with that group will maintain its formation.

This was all covered in the prologue.

You did pay attention to the prologue, right?

Not by default, you have to manually lock it.

They changed this and until I read this post I couldn't work out how to fix it...

[Snorri Nosebiter]

Originally posted by DayShine:

Originally posted by Mr Eyl:

Select your units and press Ctrl +G. Every movement you make with that group will maintain its formation.

This was all covered in the prologue.

You did pay attention to the prologue, right?

Not by default, you have to manually lock it.

They changed this and until I read this post I couldn't work out how to fix it...

G is the basic group hotkey. Ctrl + G locs the formation.

[DyNaMiX]

WHY would they change this between Shogun 2 and Rome 2... really makes no sense!

Everything about the interface in this game is bonkers! It's so unintuitive and restricted... >_<

[Inoksvere]

Ctrl+G is to make a group where they move as a formation.

And to all the idiots saying "why they take out fine controls like the arrows in Shogun 2, derp" just stop. Stop. The controls are still there.

Arrow keys, guys. Arrow keys. You know, on your keyboard. Up, Left, Down and Right. They make your unit move up, left, down and right respectively. You can also hit Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right to rotate the unit.