Autoplacement of units in battle is fine by me, if it puts tanks in the front.

As many I'd prefer setting the units by my own - but hey that's some stuff maybe for 1.2 - for now it's fine.

So thank you for the updates, when will there be a Beta update for us to play with these changes and see if they break anything? Today? Please?

It will be interesting to see if it deals properly with custom ranged units as well as the built in archers. I've learned that I can research Enchantment a lot faster than Archery and have designed custom ranged units using Ice staffs and Incineration staffs. These are fairly expensive to build so it's quite frustrating when they are placed front and center in tactical combat where they can sometimes be killed before I can move them to the rear

Having abused the pillar of flame spell recently, and the more expensive version of the spell (200 mana for 10 +10 per shard  vs 48 mana for 4 +4 per shard) I am glad the ai doesn't spam this spell. It would be game breaking if it did because then you'd need 10 to 20 armies running around at all times and heroes would never survive. ever.

This was my response when ythril got rich and started runing his armies around everywhere to take over the world. He eliminated all the other ai's while i struggled with my three settlements against the environment. Don't know how he managed to not get killed by the wilderness beasts, i think the next patch (released today cross fingers) will fix this.

When you have a mana income of 30+ per turn, it's very easy to flameroast everyone but magnar.

Well, that's something that we can report after the last beta update, if there are bugs with the new setup.  I will not say more about that now, because I have already said too much of nothing much in too many posts over the last few days.

I am also looking forward to the garrison troops having a better armor regime, hopefully that will be in 0.984.

That's great to hear.  Auto-resolve in War of Magic was basically an auto-lose button.

The placement looks good but I would still prefer to be able to move units into the ranks.

Also, please have units start in auto-defence mode.

Awesome!  Any news of making it easier to heal wounds for heroes?

I agree.  Units should be defending even before they get their first turn.

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~ Kongdej

I like unit customization (even though I sometimes just work with the prebuilt ones) and to some extent I like micro-management. But not everything needs to be micro-managed and sometimes the game just needs to progress. This autoplacement of units is a great compromise.