All units must have a defense option. Static Artillery has only one defense order option available to it, other units have a variety of choices which are shown in the following table:
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Retreat On Defeat - this is an order that you give an unit when you don't want it to defend too strongly and get the casualities that come with such a strong defense. Instead it will stand in battle as well as it can, but if it loses a battle it quickly pulls away from battle in order to minimise the casualities. This is a good order to give artillery in case they get attacked. |
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Defend Within Reason - this is the order that you give for an unit to defend as well as it can. But if the casualities get to bad then there is a chance that it will try to retreat. |
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Defend At All Costs - this is a suicidal command. If an unit is attacked while defending with this option it can take horrendous causalities. On the other hand the unit will never retreat no matter what is thrown at it. |
Something to notice about the defend orders is that you can have only one on at a time, selecting a defend button that is up will result in the old option being switched off and the new button sticking in the down position. This order will never change until you decide to change it. Also note that units of static artillery can't move (hence can't retreat) so they have no choice at all about what defend option is available to them.
A quick little run through should make the above a little more clearer:
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To change the defense order for an unit you must first select it and make it the active unit by clicking on its image on the hex map. You then move the cursor to the toolbar and over the defend option that you want. In the image to the left, the previous order was a "defend within reason", whereas I am intending to change that to a "defend at all costs" option. |
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Clicking the mouse will result in the previous defense option button popping out and the new defense button option popping in, as can be seen in the image in the left. This means that the defense orders are mutually exclusive in that you can only chose one at a time. Also note that when you select a defense option then that defense option shall remain as you have chosen it until you chose to change it latter. |