Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Mousehold

It sounds like you're thinking of a game like Command Ops, where you can issue an order to a company or brigade HQ and the tactical AI will handle issuing orders down the chain of command. I do not believe that is a feature of Armored Brigade. Much more like Combat Mission or Close Combat, you are expected to issue orders to platoons and elements directly. For better or worse, the burden is on the player to keep their units moving and fighting cohesively.

If you issue an order to an individual element, it will be detached from its group. Be aware that if there is only one element in the group, issuing an order to the element will still detach it. This will create an additional and unnecessary delay in the orders issued. (This mistake happens to me a lot with recce and HQ assets.)

If you set your formation to march and your movement mode SOP to quick, you should see your units use roads. Some people have suggested using wide formation spacing too help with congestion, but they should path along roads regardless. Be aware that a whole brigade attempting to use roads in the initial minutes of a scenario can quickly turn into a messy traffic jam, but they'll sort themselves out. I try to keep my use of road march limited to getting stragglers caught up or redeploying units through the rear to a different flank. Vehicles are already pretty quick across open fields, and I've had better luck keeping them organized by setting them to use the shortest path by default, then plotting the routes I want them to take with more detailed waypoints. (I use the covered route SOP mostly for infantry.)

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ORIGINAL: blackcloud6

OK, back to training.

I set up a Meeting Engagement of two platoons of M1A1 v two platoons of T-80Us at the NTC just to maneuver around the Abrams platoons using only formation commands. Now I could see what was going on and why I thought there was odd movement when doing so. What I was seeing was the subordinate units moving to get into the prescribed formation say from line to echelon right. They have to move around terrain and such to be able to do so and it takes time. What I thought was odd movement away from their PL was simply move to get into the right position in the formation command.

I'm going to do some more training missions at the NTC to see how this behaves.

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ORIGINAL: Veitikka


If you don't want the subordinates to reorganize between waypoints then select formation->free.