In a village I have several barracks with few soldiers in. As the robbers and raiders may attack from different sides of the village this gives an advantage of being able to order soldiers to different places in the village. Although I realise this is not first and foremost a war game, I made some observations with regards to this strategy and on soldiers in general.
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When you place a flag, it doesn’t seems as the soldiers charge out of the barracks towards the designated spot. In fact, many times nothing at all happens. I assume the soldiers are out getting food or doing something else, but it takes some time for the soldiers to arrive at the flag site. If you have a number of barracks this makes it difficult to follow the soldiers and see where they are.
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On route to a flag soldiers can engage in battle when they find an enemy and not arrive at the flag.
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When a soldier nears a flag and there is a battle going on, the solder will engage the enemy instantly.
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If the raiders take of, the soldier will take up persute, semingly never to catch the raiders.
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When you change the location of a flag, the soldier will not disengage and head to the flag, the soldier will continue with what they are doing until the soldier decides he or she is finished with the task at hand.
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If and when a number of soldiers have arrived at the flag sites where more than one flag is located, it is not posible to know shich soldier belongs to which flag, or to which barrack. You then have to manually select individual soldiers. But some never arrive and you want to use the flag to hurry them up, but you don’t know which soldier belongs to which flag.
All in all, this makes it virtually imposible to control soldiers. Again, I fully appreciate that the game is not a war game, but some added functionality would be appreciated. I have no good suggestions on what to change, except perhaps a more rapid response to flag changes. And perhaps a coloration of each barracks flag and that barracks soldiers, to be able to differentiate the soldiers on the battlefiled and perhaps make them easier to spot in the village when they are out and about.
I think adding some functionality to raise the ambition from placing a flag and hoping for the best untill the battle is over, whould make a great change to the game.
