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Strategy/tactical thought

Strategy/tactical thought

...as the idea is usable in both categories

Hi guys;
Very recently I read a post on here concerning ETA's on movement orders, similar to the Supreme Commander setup. I was wondering whether it would be possible in an update (as it is probably to hard to do so close to the release date, but I wouldn't know)to add the co-ordinated attack idea, wherein one can order two different groups to attack the same target and arrive at the same time.
However, I found that in Supreme Commander it was difficult to use this function to attack, say, two different sides of a base simultaneously, seeing that the function only worked on single targets.
Perhaps a more general, "co-ordinated movement" function could be implemented to facilitate, say, simultaneous arrival of two task forces from different directions into a gravity well, or, tactically, to fudge a quick pincer movement in-battle, etc. etc. Like I said, this would perhaps be better in an update or even a mod.

As a quick example, consider two groups arriving at a gravity well; once there, you could tell the one to go "west" of the planet, shift-click (or whatever) on its destination to activate the function, and tell the other to go "east", such that the game automatically programs the same ETA on both destinations.
Just a note; I haven't played the game at all, so I don't know whether I'm way off with this or not :)
Thanks for having the patience to read this!
What do you think?
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That said, I agree with Lightzy. Tactics embodies some micro, but by no means too much. Clickfests on CnC3 are micro, but the micro extends BEYOND tactics. That is why micro is called micro, and not tactics :P
I mean, a tactical game might require lots of micro, but if that game has extremely good unit AI (as Sins does, I assume), then micro of the "clickfest" kind, and the type to which most people object, is eliminated while the more enjoyable "micro" of intelligent tactics remains.

Edit: On my last post I said it was an insult to consider tactics micro; I wish to clarify that by putting "too much" before the micro. :P
Excuse my inconsistency.