Previously I had agreed with @Callum in another thread ( can't find it) that to would be best if the AI was good enough to not have to be micro'd by the player and know what target it should be shooting. Well, I a take it back. I really really want to order attacks on groups of enemies! I like telling to troops to do things and being in charge. It's really satisfying
It's really frustrating to position and face troops and interfere and kite enemies and "hope" my troops do thier job, I want to ORDER an ATTACK on say enemy HA, no ifs ands or butts, ignore all other units in the distant horizon and focus down the threat! Then the Cav, the Archers because I say so and I'm the boss! I don't understand how TW doesn't feel it's a problem in thier tests watch thier archers shoot at harmless infantry blobs while themselves being shot to death by enemy archers? How can you NOT want a command to say "Shoot the ****ing archers!" With HA too, all range will happily shoot at infantry formations a million miles away and not HA until they are too close and let them have 1st strike! You have to really bend over backwards to position ranged (HA and foot) so that the HA are right in front of them with no other units for them to shoot, if you want them to actually focus the HA down (they still suck at moving targets but still). I'm am strait up rejecting "we don't want players to have to micro" because it's way more work to try to achieve the desired effect already then just a simple "Kill this" command".
And I know from both playing with the RTS command mod and a certain other game I won't name that targeting attacks on enemy groups FEELS REALLY GOOD! It's really satisfying!
Anyway, this has been suggested many time forever, so this is just a conversational topic about it!
It's really frustrating to position and face troops and interfere and kite enemies and "hope" my troops do thier job, I want to ORDER an ATTACK on say enemy HA, no ifs ands or butts, ignore all other units in the distant horizon and focus down the threat! Then the Cav, the Archers because I say so and I'm the boss! I don't understand how TW doesn't feel it's a problem in thier tests watch thier archers shoot at harmless infantry blobs while themselves being shot to death by enemy archers? How can you NOT want a command to say "Shoot the ****ing archers!" With HA too, all range will happily shoot at infantry formations a million miles away and not HA until they are too close and let them have 1st strike! You have to really bend over backwards to position ranged (HA and foot) so that the HA are right in front of them with no other units for them to shoot, if you want them to actually focus the HA down (they still suck at moving targets but still). I'm am strait up rejecting "we don't want players to have to micro" because it's way more work to try to achieve the desired effect already then just a simple "Kill this" command".
And I know from both playing with the RTS command mod and a certain other game I won't name that targeting attacks on enemy groups FEELS REALLY GOOD! It's really satisfying!
Anyway, this has been suggested many time forever, so this is just a conversational topic about it!