Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26322120-20150824181624

I think that battle in Middle Earth should be a little more organized than a mob of unorganized units randomly following there commander. Although the table of command improved this a little bit, I think it could be much better. I have thought of a few more horns that I think would greatly improve battle in Middle Earth.

-Form up/unform: This horn would command your units to get in a neat formation. Archers/ranged units in the back, tank type units, such as trolls in the front, and foot soilder type soilders in the middle would be the basic formation, however the player could customize the order or replace the types of units with squadrans.

-Advance/retreat units: This would command units to take a decided number of steps forward or backward. The speed of the movement the player would also decide, but would be limited to the speed of the slowest unit in the squadran. Whether or not they advanced in a form or not would depend on the last form up/unform horn blown. The player could customize whether the units disformed when come into contact with enemy units.

-Rotate Units: This horn would rotate units a decidednumber of degrees. Whether or not they rotated in a form or not would depend on the last form up/unform horn blown.

-Drop bomb/hold bomb(Note, this would only work for orc/warg bombardiers): Would command all bomber-type units to either drop/detonate their bombs immidiatle, or hold them for a later time (would be useful if you wanted to blow up a large clustor of enemies, or a castle wall, but didn't want to waste all your bombs on the first enemy you bomber happens to see.

-Complicated maneuver(Note, I can understand if this is too hard to code):  This would act as a preselected combination of other commands with just a single blow of a horn. An example would be to make a formation with archers in back, then advance archers to the front long enough to fire a volley of arrows, then retreat archers behind the more heavily armoured/melee units again.

Please comment you suggestions for other possible commands. 