Troop Commands

[fiorenzospa]

If you do the following, where your ships are the 0, you should stop using auto-kiting

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I never found mself in this situation. I always take my fleet with transports on a side of the battlefield and start to attak. And if There is any problem with dispersing units, with a bit of easy micro I move those units in the right position. I really think autokiting works well. I put it always at "1".

[Shrugging Khan]

Autokiting can cause problems when you're not watching, since units tend to drift all over the place and far away.

Oh, and when it comes to marauders on a planet with a gravity drill, you better switch AK off.

[BobTheJanitor]

An autokiting armored golem can't shoot a fortress, also. It's already up on mantis. I think it has to do with the measurement for the auto kiting range using a different center for the model than the measurement for the weapon range, but that's an uneducated guess. Makes sense, though, for a big unit trying to shoot another big unit. It's the little bugs like that that cause me to keep turning it off. In general I do like it, but I always find something fiddly about it that gives me trouble.

[Shrugging Khan]

I like the way it keeps units moving, making firefights less static. You see what's going on, rather than having to check the numbers all the time.