Deployment zone

lapdog666 · Post by **lapdog666** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:05 pm

in custom battles (mp) if i play very large battle, i am unable to deploy my units as i like. i can cover only so much terrain horizontally to put 1/3 of my army in the first line (not counting skirmishers/light cav) . is that working as designed or its a slight oversight? i end up having 3 lines usually

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:44 pm

lapdog666 wrote:in custom battles (mp) if i play very large battle, i am unable to deploy my units as i like. i can cover only so much terrain horizontally to put 1/3 of my army in the first line (not counting skirmishers/light cav) . is that working as designed or its a slight oversight? i end up having 3 lines usually

If you are a Roman army then yes. Hellenistic armies should mostly be able to deploy in one line even in (unmodded) Very Large battles.

If you have modded the points sizes, then the deployment probably won't work as intended.

JaM2013 · Post by **JaM2013** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:00 pm

why are Romans so handicapped? I noticed AI usually deploy in unhistorical 6 lines with large battles, therefore they are way too easy to handle as you dont need to worry they will outflank you...

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:11 pm

JaM2013 wrote:why are Romans so handicapped? I noticed AI usually deploy in unhistorical 6 lines with large battles, therefore they are way too easy to handle as you dont need to worry they will outflank you...

Yes, we do need to look at widening the Roman deployment in larger battles. It is on the to do list for patch 2.

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