Battle formations/arrangement - I have some input and requests

[talior3]

I might not know it so correct me if I'm wrong but I wasn't able to create my own formations - Like when I click the party manager I have them sorted by group types, but I would have liked to create like a sub-unit, say I have 10 bandits - Take 5 of them and create a unite so it's easier to call them in battle, and the other 5 bandits of the same type put in a different unit.

I know I can press f7 while in battle and divide some to call them seperately but this is beyond clumsy and impractical it takes too much time.
Also in the party menu not battle it's impossible to take a group and divide it, only through f7 which is clumsy as hell.

Anyone else feeling like me? Diving groups to take on different fronts while in battle is too slow and difficult and I need to be able to plan it in advance through the party menu maybe create like a menu dedicated to formations and battle arrangement.

 

[World's Coolest Old Guy]

There's a way to do this, but it's... only partial. That is, you can sort your infantry into heavy and light, as an example. So you could make five of your bandits Heavy Infantry and the rest just Infantry, and then call them with a different key in battle. The downsides are obvious, but it'd be difficult to do it the way you (and I) would prefer, because there aren't many numbers left unmapped. The only way I can think of to pull it off would be to register number pad keys separately from top row numbers, and allow us to create groups mapped to the number pad.