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if a unit is close to being wiped out, can you then mix it with another unit? or will it have to run useless around until the game ends?

ORIGINAL: jnpoint

if a unit is close to being wiped out, can you then mix it with another unit? or will it have to run useless around until the game ends?

If it's like COTA, it will disband and merge with another unit?

(Still waiting for the Demo!)

ORIGINAL: Treale
If it's like COTA, it will disband and merge with another unit?

It does.

But the player can not trigger a merge intentionally. It's up to the game engine.

I think it would be cool to have the ability [to a reasonable extent] to transfer/disband elements from one unit to the next. I say [to a reasonable extent] because there could be gamey abuse of the function- disbanding units into a giant uber-unit for instance, that would result in unrealistic reorganizations. While dissolving a small remnant into a larger neighbor wouldn't be unusual, large transfers, especially outside of one's own parent bn, should result in large and persistant cohesion penalities, and perhaps a morale hit, too (if a unit is broken up- troops hate getting separated from their friends/comrades).

or it surrenders or it very rarely is destroyed....I always get a buzz when I've destroyed a unit....there only pixel troops after all.

ORIGINAL: Franklin Nimitz

I think it would be cool to have the ability [to a reasonable extent] to transfer/disband elements from one unit to the next.

I suggested that in the features-thread. The anti-gamey-thing you suggested would be a nice addition, and a MUST for multiplayer encounters. Good call.[/quote]

There is no way I believe that you could manipulate the disbanding at the moment in a gamey way...you have no control to even contemplate it. If you could choose which to disband then you could have a problem...