Troops marching in Line formation

[37th_Tennessee]

When the troops march over quite a distance, for example Picketts charce, is the AI going to automatically march them in collums as in TC2M, or will they actually hold their line formations? That was one of the things I didn't care for in TC2M. When marching they would form into a collum, no matter what the distance from the enemy. And a third of them would get slaughtered before forming into battle line to engage. Has the AI troubles been correcting regarding this issue?

Also, If this question has been posted somewhere else, I apologize for the duplicate.

[Zeke]

This came up on the TC2M Board (Franklin map post) a way round that was suggested would be to change the marching formation in the Unitcommon.csv file to Line formation (Column Y - Unitcommon)however This is a different game engine.

[Amish John]

37th_Tennessee wrote:

When the troops march over quite a distance, for example Picketts charce, is the AI going to automatically march them in collums as in TC2M, or will they actually hold their line formations? That was one of the things I didn't care for in TC2M. When marching they would form into a collum, no matter what the distance from the enemy. And a third of them would get slaughtered before forming into battle line to engage. Has the AI troubles been correcting regarding this issue?

Also, If this question has been posted somewhere else, I apologize for the duplicate.

I agree. There are definitely times when you want to advance in battleline. This is pretty basic and hopefully has been corrected in GB.

[solinvictus88]

interesting thoughts...I remember this from TC2M - would be great to know