Selecting villagers when troops are in the middle of them?

Farthest Frontier Ideas and Feedback
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So one of the things I do when a raid is approaching is select the entire map to tell all my villagers to return to town so they can avoid being killed, but I’ve gotten troops recently, and notice that every time I drag a box over an area, if that area has even one soldier in it, the game selects the soldiers and ONLY the soldiers

I mean, I get buttons to select military units if I wanted to do that, I would sure appreciate not needing to draw boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes so I could tell the civilians to evacuate, and not be reduced to selecting them individually if they decided to crowd around my archers.

To say nothing of village defenses that attempt to make use of a huge mob of militia supporting a unit of archers?

Why is combat in a real RTS actually easier than in this city-builder? Is that on purpose?

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Why not use the Shelter option in the town centre for that?

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Only the 10-20 villagers who can fit inside the town Center go to it. Still so many continue doing their jobs up until either getting LOS on a raider or even getting attacked. Then they often path to their houses while staying in range or even running towards raiders.

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