Army Combat Changes

[cub298]

Let people chose and, prepare in peace, how they want certain units in certain armies to act within the battle. Maybe have some infantry stay back or try not to bring cannons to front row and have infantry try their best to keep in the front. Also when there are penalties to combat width, you being able to say I mainly want all Infantry in front and two cavalry on the side, with the rest in the back waiting to replace the front line ones. Also with a mercenaries thread to make the mercs always start in the center.

I would also like it if every time there is a fire and shock phase of a battle, that there would be a day's break in combat so armies can reform and restructure, and be a bit of a cease fire between the armies. Either that or the army that had weaker moral would retreat a little and reform a bit and continue on with the battle. I am proposing here that it would be a new step in battle called regroup where technically the one army with lower moral retreats a little and continues the battle the next day.


This would make planning out your armies a bit a part of the game in peace time and be a bit of an improvement to the game. For the newer players, they would not need to know of this and let regular AI take control. It would be similar to how some of the other paradox games have a choice of if you want it automated or not. It still would not get rid of the randomization but it will also make it so that the player has more decision with armies other than controlling what units are in it. I really would like to see this in a new DLC for people who would like to be able to set some rules for armies on how they behave in combat and when starting combat.

 

[FlaviusMarcusFelix12]

yes but with an option to automate so people don't have to min/max every army in the game

 

[cub298]

yes but with an option to automate so people don't have to min/max every army in the game

Yes it is what I meat to say if I did not make it clear enough. I would mainly want to set up for the bigger armies for the AI gets worse once they get bigger. Like maybe unlock it once you get to armies of like 10 or 20.

 

[V.V.]

I support this!

 

[cub298]

Now that I think about it some of the army plans could be a way to have some sort of organization modifier in EU4. It would just let the armies be more efficient with their attacks and battles the same as Discipline or how certain unit combat modifiers does this.

 

[Martian Gamer]

Honestly, at some point we will find the best way for the organization. That being said, I think PDX should just make the Army deploy better.

Now that I think about it some of the army plans could be a way to have some sort of organization modifier in EU4. It would just let the armies be more efficient with their attacks and battles the same as Discipline or how certain unit combat modifiers does this.

Love that idea, just want to point out that this will make battles even longer. The length right now seems ahistorical to me.

 

[cub298]

yea I understand right now battles are long now but all they would have to do is up the coding for certain number of units dieing in the shock and fire phase.

 

[cub298]

I would love to see introduced in game! Army combat would be more realistic and make it so there is some organization in combat.