Unit Formations

[Apollyon]

Well, I know a lot of you probably don't bother but I know at least some do, so what formations do you put your units in?

Early game with Ordos I tend to get 3 lines of dustscouts, each consisting of 5 dusties and attack the enemy from several sides at once, running 1 line away while the other 1 attacks and so on. With atreides vs harkonnen/ordos I tend to position 4 minos in a line with fedakin grouped to the sides and 2 geese just behind and 2 repair vehicles as support.

[Navaros]

my formation is dependent upon what House i'm fighting and whether my enemy uses conventional strats or not.

[Apollyon]

Obviously, but can you give some examples?

[ken124578]

Formations? I split them up in groups, distraction, anti tank, anti infantry and/or i split them up into tasks, this group will distract them, this group will take upon all the fire etc etc. Everything depends on the situation.

[Apollyon]

That's not formations, Ken, that's groups. A formation is the physical form a group of units takes, whether it be an arrow, crescent or whatever.

[ken124578]

Well, i put one group in front of the last to protect the more important units in the last group, does that count as a formation? ;D

[Navaros]

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[Apollyon]

Well, I've seen Dawg use them to pretty good effect. I agree that it would have been good had formation options been included in emp. It would be great if you could design your own formations and then implement them with the click of a button.

[Dunenewt]

To keep units in formation hold down 'J' when you move them.

[Apollyon]

Yes, Newt, we know that. Have you tried to keep a constant formation navigating from one side of the map to the other using the j key though? It really doesn't work well.

[sendakon]

Formations r very important in emp the point in formations is to never lose time in attacking which i would say 95% of the ppl in emp do.

[Harkdawg]

Formations in Emp are just fine, everyones just got to make them work for themselves.

[sendakon]

i think its not formations but maybe the point you attack can make a diference hark is right u gotta find your own ways of attacking but there r efficent ways and noneffcent ways