One of my pet peeves in this game was how annoying it was to get plan preparation bonus on tanks while making sure that they were correctly positioned to push in the places I wanted. Let's take this made-up example:
I want my tanks in Nice to micro them along the coast. If I put my tanks in the same army group as the infantry, they get spread around evenly, so this is out of the question.
What I used to do was create a 1-tile front with my tanks in it:
This works, but as soon as you've pushed a bit and stopped microing, your front is no longer gonna be 1-tile wide and your tanks are gonna try to spread themselves out again, forcing you to redraw your 1-tile front to prepare for your next push.
The thing is, there's a workaround to this (I dunno if this was common knowledge, I just figured it out completely by accident). What you gotta do is have your tank under a field marshall, have the field marshall have a front with a plan, and have your tanks be unassigned. The tanks don't have to be part of the plan, heck, they don't even have to be part of the front line, they'll get the preparation bonus anyway, so long as they are ON any part of the front line!
What's more, the front line doesn't need to have any units in it!
Now you can micro your tanks all you want, they won't try to spread themselves out, and you'll still accrue planning bonus, all of this without having redraw tiny front lines. Do your micro, go do something else, and when a few days have passed, your bonus will be back.
Hope that helps, happy encircling!
I want my tanks in Nice to micro them along the coast. If I put my tanks in the same army group as the infantry, they get spread around evenly, so this is out of the question.
What I used to do was create a 1-tile front with my tanks in it:
This works, but as soon as you've pushed a bit and stopped microing, your front is no longer gonna be 1-tile wide and your tanks are gonna try to spread themselves out again, forcing you to redraw your 1-tile front to prepare for your next push.
The thing is, there's a workaround to this (I dunno if this was common knowledge, I just figured it out completely by accident). What you gotta do is have your tank under a field marshall, have the field marshall have a front with a plan, and have your tanks be unassigned. The tanks don't have to be part of the plan, heck, they don't even have to be part of the front line, they'll get the preparation bonus anyway, so long as they are ON any part of the front line!
What's more, the front line doesn't need to have any units in it!
Now you can micro your tanks all you want, they won't try to spread themselves out, and you'll still accrue planning bonus, all of this without having redraw tiny front lines. Do your micro, go do something else, and when a few days have passed, your bonus will be back.
Hope that helps, happy encircling!
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