Holding space will show you all your issued move orders, as well as where your units will end up. There’s a UI button toggle for this too, but Alt is usually faster. If you have a ranged unit you need to get into melee combat, holding Alt while right-clicking to attack will switch the default ranged attack to a melee one. Select the units you want to be reorganised, choose melee or missile, and the game will do the rest.Īnd while we’re on the buttons on that UI row, ‘guard mode’ (when selected) will tell a unit to not pursue a fleeing enemy and instead hold their ground. Warhammer doesn’t really have pre-designed formations like some previous Total War titles, but you can set up a melee or missile-focused front with a button on the UI (along the row that has stuff like ‘halt’ and ‘fire at will’). Very helpful if they’re about to be charged from behind and you’re able to react fast enough. Pressing this will make any selected units do a 180 degree turn. Ctrl+I will select all infantry, Ctrl+M for missile/archer troops, Ctrl+C for cavalry, and Ctrl+B will select all artillery. There are also default hotkeys for quickly selecting all units of a specific tactical type. Here, I’ve got several detachments of men in various hotkey groups. Useful for the heat of battle if you want to quickly select a specific group of troops without clicking on their unit cards. Whenever you need to select them all again, just press 1 (or 2, 3, etc). Select all your spearmen, stick them in a group with Ctrl+1, and you can get them quickly set up as a nice front line screen. This is pretty standard stuff for real-time strategy games on PC, but, in case you’re not aware of it, sets of units can be assigned to control groups by highlighting/selecting the desired units and pressing Ctrl plus a number key.
The less time you have to spend faffing about micro-managing each and every unit, the better.Ĭreating hotkey groups is probably the most straightforward way to get a modicum of order instilled in your Total War: Warhammer troops (yes, even if they’re orcs).
Though this information won’t automatically win you any battles, being able to efficiently get your troops moving in the manner you desire is both helpful and satisfying.
These will probably be known to serious Total War veterans (though some might not, you have to delve around to find some of this stuff out), but should prove useful if you’re fresher to the series. The PC Invasion Total War: Warhammer review will be appearing in the next few days, and in the process of dealing with quarreling Elector Counts, sinister Vamps, and a whole lot of Chaos spawn I’ve picked up various shortcuts and techniques for manipulating unit formations.
0 kommentar(er)
