The New horizontal/vertical Evade buttons

[ianiow]

I've just noticed these on the bottom left of the screen! They are greyed-out at the moment so I am assuming they will become active at a future date?

The evade direction of units in New Fog was one of my biggest concerns during beta. All units seemed to prefer evading horizontally (if hit at an obtuse angle) making them easy meat for rear charges by enemy unit. Dan's reasoning was that historically, skirmishers preferred to evade to the flanks rather than back through their own front lines. While this may be the case, it didn't really work within the confines of the game. Now it seems we at least have an option.

Kudos Dan!

[Blathergut]

Just what is the vertical/horizontal button? The other one works: choose whether the unit will evade or not, etc. It does seem odd that units are evading parallel to the battle lines (until they reach the flank??).

[cothyso]

The in-game bottom left buttons are the BG Evade Behavior and Alternate Form ones. They will only be active one a unit is selected, and that unit has the ability to have its evade behavior (always evade/automatic evade/never evade) / alternate form changed. They are not influencing the unit's taken evading path.

[ianiow]

My bad. I didn't realise these were buttons for the evade or stand feature. I was using CtrlZ. I guess the horizontal evading issue is still a thing. It will just mean that players will use less skirmishers than normal because using them as a screening force for the HF is now just plain suicide.