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New way of moving units in Warcraft

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From: depa... just passing through
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00
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Minor note on Warcraft:

Units can play follow-the-leader.

Isn't it annoying when you send a group off somewhere, and since they
move at different rates, they all straggle in separately, and probably
get slaughtered  ... ?

But if you tell unit A to move, and then click on unit B, unit A will 
follow unit B until it reaches it and B is no longer moving.

What this means in terms of gameplay is that if you have a group consisting
of, say, a catapult, two knights, and two archers, you can direct the
whole mass to the other side of the map and have them arrive at the same
time.  Just direct the catapult way over there, and direct the knights and
the archers to move (NOT ATTACK) on to the catapult.

You can also tell your units to move onto an enemy unit, and they will
follow it faithfully (or until they are next to it and it stops moving.)
They will fight it when they get next to it, of course.

Anyhow, I thought it was interesting to find out something 
new about Warcraft after having played it for a year or so ...
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Date: 1995/07/24
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