Can I hot-tag/team my armies?

[AndarielHalo]

I have a big mess of units in the form of armies that I've split apart, and others that I've put together.


Is there a way to label the units of a certain group in order to keep track of armies? Like with Command & Conquer games?

 

[Mansa Musa]

You can name individual units and Great Generals.. though i'm unsure if you can name group.
Maybe you could try naming an infantry unit of an army for example:
3rd Infantry Division, 1st Army Group

 

[DampRain]

You can use Ctrl 1, etc. if that is what you mean.

 

[Leventis]

Simple enough to just select all units of a specific type in a tile by holding CTRL. Can also try CTRL 1,2, etc to make hotkeys but this can get messy if you start splitting your stack.

 

[vicawoo]

It hotkeys exactly like command and conquer. Which is terrible, because a unit can't carry multiple hotkey groups. If you rehotkey a unit, it will lose its previous group.

Control to hotkey, shift clicking will add units to your selection, which you can then rehotkey. Pressing the hotkey will automatically center the unit.

I strongly suggest hotkeying your workers, especially if you're going to prechop/cancel orders.

Let's say you want your first worker to build a road for 1 turn, then cancel orders and move. You have to
1. find the worker
2. left click the worker
3 Right click to move it one tile, press r to road.
Now your worker is automatically deselected and the game moves on to your next unit.
4. So now, find worker again
5. Left click worker
6 Backspace to cancel

If it's at control 1,
you press 1
right click move, press r
1 backspace

 

[AndarielHalo]

I'm renaming generals (Michel Ney and Marquis de Grouchy command my largest armies), and the best units get renamed "Old Guard #"

But you say I CAN group them like with RTS games? Ctrl + 1 labels a group so when I press 1 again, it will bring up that group?


I see, indeed it is working like that. Thank you