How to stop soldiers from charging at start of battle?

[DJORES]

Title. It's really annoying when I start the battle they immediatly run forward, when I'd rather have them form a shield wall.

[Tuidjy]

If you, or a companion, have decent Tactics skills, you would be able to tell them not to charge in the menu before the battle.

If you do not have such skill, as soon as the battle starts, issue the [1][F1][F1] command.

OR open the command menu [Backspace] and click where you want them to line up.

OR hold [F1], point where you want them, and release the key.

In general, you probably want to investigate the commands you can issue with the [1]-[0] and [F1]-[F4] keys. If you are playing a mod, those commands change, sometimes greatly.

[DJORES]

Originally posted by Tuidjy:

If you, or a companion, have decent Tactics skills, you would be able to tell them not to charge in the menu before the battle.

If you do not have such skill, as soon as the battle starts, issue the [1][F1][F1] command.

OR open the command menu [Backspace] and click where you want them to line up.

OR hold [F1], point where you want them, and release the key.

In general, you probably want to investigate the commands you can issue with the [1]-[0] and [F1]-[F4] keys. If you are playing a mod, those commands change, sometimes greatly.

Yea I got the hang of commands, didn't know about the tactics skill though. Looks like I know what I'm upgrading next!

[4and4squared]

Tactics effects battle advantage which is a system that sets the ratio of spawned troops on either side of the battlefield and how close/far your opponent spawns near you.

[DJORES]

Originally posted by ҒS 4and4squared:

Tactics effects battle advantage which is a system that sets the ratio of spawned troops on either side of the battlefield and how close/far your opponent spawns near you.

So no way to stop the mindless charging?

[Tuidjy]

Originally posted by Staalin:

Originally posted by ҒS 4and4squared:

Tactics effects battle advantage which is a system that sets the ratio of spawned troops on either side of the battlefield and how close/far your opponent spawns near you.

So no way to stop the mindless charging?

Hmm? Tactics does both what I said and what he said.

It does other stuff, as well - it allows you to get away with a smaller force to fight a delaying action, for example.

In general, you should have all party skills at 10, at the very least, through companions.

Three of the party skills, Surgeon, Path-Finding and Engineering are well worth having on your main character, for the player. If you are building a boffin, +4 is awesome, but even a combat beast should provide +1 or +2.