Sepharo wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 04:01:

Bludd wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 03:31:
i love army/navy commanders, you can pack in your combat units into this commander and move as one towards the front and then unpack and attack and the commander also is the one gaining xp and leveling up so no longer do you have to babysit a certain high-level unit, and the commander cannot "die" if he gets defeated in combat he goes away for x turns and then comes back)

That sounds really good actually.
Babysitting the high-level unit was annoying. And letting your general package up the units sounds like a good compromise between stacks of doom and armys so large that they take forever to maneuver the limited spaces on the board. Also feels like it reflects history better too in a way.

yes and you can get really good upgrades for your commander, like ignoring rough terrain so you can move faster across the map or initiative which lets your unpacked units move and attack the same turn they are unpacked. you can have the commander direct focus fire where all ranged units inside the commanders influence (standard 1 hex radius) all shoot at the same target if they can with a bonus to combat strength or coordinated attack where it is the same for infantry/cavalry. the way combat also works is that when you engage a melee unit with another they face each other and the combat animations persist so now flanking is actually attacking someone engaged in melee from another side and getting a combat strength bonus from that

its really good how they have done it

also there is a little bonus where you can actually stack of doom a sole weak unit if your packed commander meets that unit, you get an overrun ability where you can attack without unpacking. of course does not work on city districts