Well sence stacking beyond 7 units in the same hex will have a penalty will 70 battalions be enouph of a micromanagment reduser.
And can we have a "thing" to set those "groupings" AI off. I would be willing to run with my Armys AI at 100% as long as I could control my groups. Because I don't want the AI running off with my groups just because I haven't touched them in 2 game months. I may have put them there for a reason my Uber-AI-General Field Marshal Von Laptop could not posably understand.
Ofcourse I am not a Beta tester (hint) so I may not know what I'm talking about here. But I gather that AI can assume control of units you arn't (or haven't been) using based of the % of control you give it.
Because if this is gonna be like the real world a nation like germany the U.S. and China could litaraly have thousands of battalions under wartime conditions. Maybe we could increase the number of Groups by maybe Ctrl+ 0-9 but I would like it better if you could just click or double click a stack. Or prehaps have a pop up tab with all your groups then you could select the group right from that pop up. I don't know...
In WWII Germany fielded a total of Approximatly 250 divisions 200 foot inf + 50 armored/mechanized even with only 10 battalions each (and I think in total they had more then 10) thats 2,500 battalions could you imagine the pain in the back side that would be to run?? and out of all that you get 10 groups??
Far be it from me to critizise but at least brigade size units need to be in just to lower the Micro-managment and grouping them together may reduse lag towards the end-game(??).
Perhaps some load bearing tests could be run with large nations on the world map. See how easy it is to control all those units.
I am dubious of only 10 groups and there cohesiveness if they don't move and stay together. If they do move and stay together then why can't we have more groups with a double click option to select them??
Sorry for rambling but I really think groups of this nature need to be here. Heck russian battalions can't even opperate independently away from there regments because all there support comes from the regment level, unlike western battalions which have all there support with them. Oh well I'll await a reply.
Oh did I mention I'm not a beta tester?? (hint)
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