Suggestion - replace units in front line before battle

[FroBodine]

Unless I'm missing something, you are unable to replace a unit in the front line with a reserve unit. Say I place a unit, then decide I want to put him back in reserves and select a different unit. You can't do that.

Please add a feature that allows this flexibility.

Thanks!

[gdrover]

Another good idea. Perhaps this should be limited to one or two units...swapping out a unit or two seems possible and realistic...rotating the entire force out might not be.

Another suggestion: The attacker should lose at least one unit when storming a city. It's too common that the Romans just blitz through my cities and lose almost nothing to the garrisons. This feels a bit off. While they were great at seigecraft, storming all the Punic-held cities in, say, Cisalpine Gaul in one turn without taking appreciable losses has the wrong flavor to it.

As it stands, I hesitate to leave any troops behind, as the defender almost always loses more units than the attacker. It's a bad investment.

[NefariousKoel]

Switching out tiles after each round wouldn't do it any justice, in my opinion.

In ancient warfare, once committed that was generally it until the affair was decided. It would also be too much work redoing the AI and game mechanics with too much potential to throw game balance off.

[Astyreal]

I think what he means is that you can't switch out units before you commit them to battle.

I _believe_ you can swap out units unless you've filled out your front line, but once it is full no more swapping can take place.

I think you should be able to swap out units before you seen any battle results, i.e. committed them to battle.

-Asty

[mercenarius]

Asty and NefariousKoel are both correct.

Before the battle starts you may move a unit back out of the front line into the reserves, until you have filled the front line. Or until you have deployed all available units. Once you have filled the front line (or deployed all units), the front line is "locked" and you can't change your deployment.

I don't want to allow units to be moved out after the battle starts for the reasons that NefariousKoel mentioned. I suppose that it might be possible to change this "lock out" that occurs before the first round has been initiated. But right now all of the prompts and reminders (for this stage of a battle) are predicated on the "lock out" and can't conveniently be changed.