While it would certainly help the player, it kind of robs from the realism and effectiveness of shock units. There’s a reason it’s called Bannerlord, you’re not a hivemind. Plus your units have will, they can break and run away. There should be SOMETHING to allow you some battle prep, don’t get me wrong. I hate not having time to setup for an attack I initiated because the enemy just bum rushed to their certain death... but putting VATS in this game would ruin the game design. You’d spend all your time in it, and none in the fighting, and that’s the soul of this game, a call back to an era when commanders had to personally lead their forces.
What we need is a more streamlined way to influence the AI behavior, instead of simple direct orders. I F6 all troops on tough battles because they just coordinate 1000x better with each other and perform tasks I can’t tell them to do.
Instead of shield wall/charge/advance we need to be able to give the command to protect flanks/form skirmishing line/flank, stuff the AI can already ostensibly do