Archer unit selection not working

Farthest Frontier Bug Reporting
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In game, as well as selecting soldiers by barracks flag, you can select soldiers by type (infantry, archers, cavalry) by using the F6, F7, and F8 keys. If you have no soldiers currently highlighted, this selects all units of this type, no matter where they are on the map. If you already have a bunch of units selected, however, it only picks the subset of that type from those already selected.

This works well for infantry and cavalry. However, it does not work for archers. F7 (and the corresponding button) always selects all archers everywhere, even if I’m currently selecting just a small group. This is a pain, because I often want to move back the archers in a mixed infantry-archer group back without moving every single archer on the map to that location.

As a slight aside, if we could split the “infantry” selection button into light / heavy / pikes (or just sword vs pikes) it would be great. Very hard to make specific use of pikes against cavalry without this (or making pike-only barracks, which has its own problems).

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I’m going to add a report under the same heading here even though the context of this report is very different. I just realized that when I move several archers outside of the fort, then group select them with the rectangular select, the one with the flag is not selected. You can’t add to the selection with left shift or anything else and the only way to assign him to do a specific attack is to select him alone. I’ve seen this with other troop types as well but right now my archers are what I’m dealing with and this bug report seemed like as good a place as any to post these details.

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