can we have army trains? armies following a target army.

[akinata]

so we don't have to move all 3 (or more) armies one by one to keep them together.

 

[Grathocke]

You mean like camp followers? Just kidding.

 

[akinata]

You mean like camp followers? Just kidding.

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[Chainlinc3]

I suspect we're going to have to move them one by one, but it'd definitely be cool not to. Just to be able to just tell an army to go to another army, even if the target army moves? Very handy.

 

[Beytran70]

Would be neat but I don't see why this would really be super useful considering, if its like the other games, you can set an army to move a distance over several turns which it will do automatically. If you have multiple armies you can just send them the same place and they'll move together without any additional input from you.

 

[Tony6988]

Awesome idea.... That's all I have to say.

 

[Daerhaug]

I'd like a "send to tile" and "send to stack" option. For example, you move a unit and hover over a tile with an army from you on it, it highlights the army and the faction flag. Now you can choose to send it to the tile or to the army. So when you move the army, the new unit follows until it catches up. If you chose the tile, the new unit will not follow the army.

 

[Big J Money]

Hm. I wonder how differently people play 4X games than I do. I don't see myself using this feature very often. My armies sometimes come together to support each other, but otherwise I never move them together, and prioritize doing as many things as possible with my armies.

This has me wondering how early games would change if I had 2 full armies going around everywhere together.

I usually play 4X games on whatever the medium or standard difficulty is, though. Maybe on harder difficulties, it's necessary to make early progress.

 

[NEHZ]

It's not really for early game. In AoW3, once you start sieging fortified cities, you generally need more than one stack, unless perhaps that stack is your main stack.
If you keep producing low tier units and have them accompany your second or third army, you'll be able to win fights without losing your important units.
But I never played AoW3 on lower than hardest so I guess it's different on lower difficulties.