[Battle] Choosing Army size

[DeletedUser]

Summary
Make players able to decide how many units they want to put in a squad when entering the battle.

Description
At this point my army size can be as big as 36 in a stack, which is really great, but will there be a way to choose how many you want to send into battle? Like if I highlight the stack can I have a sliding bar that allows me to add up to 36 units into my stack box? In the recruiting area I know you can choose between recruiting 1 to your max, I just feel like you should be able to do this with battles too. That way you can send smaller numbers of more expensive units. For example if I have Knights I don't want to send in 36 knights to the battle, in case I lose a bunch of them, so instead I will put 5.

Motivation
More engagement in the battle system.

Possible downsides
Putting less units in a stack than the max, will make it harder to win the battles, which can cause disappointments for players who don't really understand the battle system anyway. This functionality would be a benefit particularly for players who are engaged in the battle system enough to care about squad size tactics.

 

[DeletedUser]

Or separating your 36 units into 3 squads of 12. Because with one squad you can only fight one enemy, but you don't necessary need the fighting power of a 36 squad to kill one enemy. With 3 squads of 12 units you can kill 3 enemy.

 

[DeletedUser]

Yes, I've been looking for this possibility but it's not here... (yet). Hopefully it will be added in the future!

 

[DeletedUser31]

Dividing squads would be nice. Even if you could divide to just the researched sizes of squads (12; 24; 36... units).

 

[DeletedUser]

I remember dividing squads was a very nice tactical choice in some old turn-based strategy games. It would be great having it here.

 

[DeletedUser]

Agreed. For some fights it's better to have smaller squads if you can't fill the maximum amount of squads otherwise

 

[DeletedUser]

I am agree.

 

[DeletedUser58]

+1 Would be super useful.

 

[DeletedUser]

+1 in time of need yup

 

[DeletedUser]

I do not know how your encounter fights are going, but in my case (just researched nearly useless ents, fighting in ring 5 and 6) only a massive attack with the biggest squad brings victory. At the beginning I wanted such a feature as well but now there is no use for it. But it would be an option if the fighting system is changed. Actually only the biggest number wins because a 5-unit-stack can do nearly the same damage as a 60-unit-stack.
But it could be useful to trap opponents in the first round.
So: don't know if I should support the suggestion or not....only my 5 cent

 

[DeletedUser43]

I know this idea has been supported quite a lot in the past, not only in this thread but also elsewhere on the forum. However, it contradicts a little bit with the fact that most players now find the battles too hard, even when they use the max amount of units per squad.

I'm wondering: would you still support this idea, or has it become unnecessary?

 

[DeletedUser]

It pleases me that idea

 

[DeletedUser778]

Sometimes when i have bait squads i know for sure they will die, it could save some troops if u could reduce the squad size, it's hard to foresee how much less is not too much less, but it could have saved me some troops in the past.
I think more options/tactic is always nice to have, so i support the idea, furthere more i would like to have the possibility to have 8 squads like the the enemy, what could be combined with this idea. I have a squad size of 96 right now, so 480 units max. on the battlefield.
It would be nice to choose if u want 5 x 96(or less) units squads , or are free to split the 480 units to 8 smaller squads.

 

[DeletedUser]

Sometimes when i have bait squads i know for sure they will die, it could save some troops if u could reduce the squad size, it's hard to foresee how much less is not too much less, but it could have saved me some troops in the past.
I think more options/tactic is always nice to have, so i support the idea, furthere more i would like to have the possibility to have 8 squads like the the enemy, what could be combined with this idea. I have a squad size of 96 right now, so 480 units max. on the battlefield.
It would be nice to choose if u want 5 x 96(or less) units squads , or are free to split the 480 units to 8 smaller squads.

Yes, of 4 x 120 (for you)

 

[DeletedUser]

On one hand dividing squads sounds like a very good idea but the difficulty of the fights is very hard currently. At this point in time with the difficulty of the fights I don't think this would be very practical or used much

 

[DeletedUser205]

number of squads should fit better to number of squads of enemies. as we can see, it's not the solution often to blow up your at most 5 squads with advaned squadsize. dividing squads to get some more could help and bring more fun because of more tactical possibilities

 

[DeletedUser1095]

number of squads should fit better to number of squads of enemies. as we can see, it's not the solution often to blow up your at least 5 squads with advaned squadsize. dividing squads to get some more could help and bring more fun because of more tactical possibilities

I agree - more choice would be more fun and interesting. Variety is what the game lacks most at this point, in battles, buildings and quests. (NB: Introducing overpowered opponents too early doesn't count as variety! That's just a brick wall.)

 

[DeletedUser43]

Ok, so the ability to adjust the squad size would be interesting if there would be a possibility to use the same total number of units (and thus more than 5 squads)?

 

[DeletedUser]

Yes, very interesting

 

[DeletedUser1095]

Ok, so the ability to adjust the squad size would be interesting if there would be a possibility to use the same total number of units (and thus more than 5 squads)?

Yes indeed