No More In-Situ Attacks?

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loyalcitizen
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No More In-Situ Attacks?

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When did In-Situ attacks go away? Been so long since I played COTA that I don't recall if they were in there or not.
Hurts to not have them. When some Companies are spread on out an east-west road and want to attack south in line formation, would sure be nice if they could just launch the attack as is. No reason to huddle up only to shake out into the formation/spacing they already had.
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RE: No More In-Situ Attacks?

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I don't believe there were ever in-situ attacks. The semantics basically just mean "don't move".

The way to get a quick and dirty short range attack are:

(1) Place just the task marker and let HQ sort it out. If close and under threat, the HQ may just order up a charge. (I read that in the manual last night).

(2) Give a MOVE order with max AGGRO and ROF. The skips the whole process that ATTACKs require and gets your units moving a quick as possible. Best only done when there is token resistance which is getting stronger by the minute.
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