"Always Evade" as the default setting

[davouthojo]

Yet again I've forgotten to set everything to "always evade" with a horse archer army...it took 6 of dazzam's auxiliaries impacting my Alan horse archers before I realised....and I risk repetitive stress syndrome turning my 50 archers into cowards......

I suspect that most players play with "always evade" on most of the time.

Can the developers make a small tweak, and set the default at the start of a game for ALL troops that can evade to "always evade"?

Think of all the carpel tunnels that will thank them.....

[frankpowerful]

I suspect that most players play with "always evade" on most of the time.

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really? don't think so...; but maybe that's the reason why i keep losing a lot of games

[TheGrayMouser]

Hmm, I like the default as is which is evade if likly to lose, hold if stronger (the way the game handled it prior to the new options) A nice neutral middle gound;)

I think automatically having them evade as a default will lead to more "mistakes" since regaular cavalry , superior sword light horse will evade from poor slingers etc, your own troops evading thru your lines can cause havoc too.....



**a good solution would maybe have it a universal setting in the preferances on what you want your default to be....

[petergarnett]

Would the answer be to add the default evade option to the starting screen where the DM & FOW ones are?

[Morbio]

Personally I'd prefer a user preferences option, although an option to set this at the start of the battle (perhaps prefilled from a user preferences option) is good too.

[dazzam]

Option to set at the start of the game is best..along with terrain pref etc. I think in time most players will use it and it will save a lot of time. I usually switch all my skirms and bow cav to this option and it's a little cumbersome to have to do it all manually.

[deadtorius]

easy solution pick armies with less lights

[Xiggy]

I use either always evade or never evade. I never know for sure what my horse archers or LT's will do with the middle option, since it changes a bit with each patch.

[CaptainHuge]

I prefer to use the 'evade if likely to lose' option, so keeping that as the default works best for me.

[Archie]

Perhaps the choice if possible should be in perfereces.

[cothyso]

An even better (additional) option would be adding multi-select and setting and option from within the game. Then, setting up Always evade for 20 units won't be so hard to do.

[deeter]

Is this a big problem? You have to move units one at a time, so as you go, a single keystroke sets evade status for the whole game, unless you need to change it later.

Deeter

[petergarnett]

If you're army has a lot of light a simple choice of evade default at the start of the game would save time (& for those of us with memory problems who forgot to set it BG by BG as they rush their lights forward it's a godsend!).