>> If Lord Dufus has 60 soldiers 20 swordsmen,20 pikemen, and 20
crossbowmen,
>> it would seem that the ideal line up would be swordsmen in row 1 pikemen in
>> row 2, and crossbowmen in row 3; I do not see anyway to control this.
>Would
>> I have to split my various soldiers amongst 3 characters sorted by unit
type
>> in order to get the order I want?
>Yes you would have to do that, since only your nobles may choose how
>far behind they want to be, the soldiers are always as fare behind as
>the noble owing them.
>By the way I would put both the pikemen and
>swordsmen in the first row because otherwise the pikemen wouldn't be
>able to fight until all the swordsmen were dead, would they?
>dva96jjn@mail.cs.umu.se
Well, I believe that the pike (in RL) is about 7 foot long; the best defensive
use of a pike is to put it in the second rank sticking forward between
swordsmen. A charging opponent has to stop to keep from getting impaled and
the swordsmen then whack at them while they are avoiding the pointy end of the
pike.
Rodger