How do I make a "box"?

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How do I make a "box"?

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I've seen some videos where people will get a bunch of the same units and put them into a really small box that moves quickly and is good at burning buildings down. How do i do that? There is no formation button or anything like that.
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How do I make a "box"?

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adnewswanger wrote:I''ve seen some videos where people will get a bunch of the same units and put them into a really small box that moves quickly and is good at burning buildings down. How do i do that? There is no formation button or anything like that.



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arriah wrote:
adnewswanger wrote:Ive seen some videos where people will get a bunch of the same units and put them into a really small box that moves quickly and is good at burning buildings down. How do i do that? There is no formation button or anything like that.

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wow thanks. Just trying to get some help, way to be a douche
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adnewswanger wrote:wow thanks. Just trying to get some help, way to be a douche


Don''t mean to be a dick but for real. It would have taken way less time to google, and wouldn''t have made a new thread for a question that has been answered a million times.
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arriah wrote:
adnewswanger wrote:wow thanks. Just trying to get some help, way to be a douche
Dont mean to be a dick but for real. It would have taken way less time to google, and wouldnt have made a new thread for a question that has been answered a million times.
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arriah wrote:
adnewswanger wrote:wow thanks. Just trying to get some help, way to be a douche
Dont mean to be a dick but for real. It would have taken way less time to google, and wouldnt have made a new thread for a question that has been answered a million times.

to be fair I dont think the google search is that obvious for this particular thing
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Oh well I've typed in cav box aoe3 and gotten an answer
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arriah wrote:Oh well I''ve typed in cav box aoe3 and gotten an answer


Let me recheck my google search.
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arriah wrote:Oh well I''ve typed in cav box aoe3 and gotten an answer


Ok looks like it can be found after all, I just loaded up a google search
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u must take an amoung of handcav or hand inf and 1 ranged cav or ranged inf.. put both of them indefense mod and select them together.. there u go hf oprichnik boxing
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Youll need to check a button in the options that says something like "show advanced unit tactics" or something similar. and then you can see all of the different formations. Then youll need the same type of unit (cav or infantry) in the same group and put both in defense (which is the shield icon) and then theyll make a box around one of the units (mostly the ranged is on the inside).

And I am guessing youre talking about the Russian cav box in which case you need a bunch of Oprichniks and one cav archer, and then theyll be really fast and dangerous :D
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To make a box put all the units into defend mode as shown below. It works best if you control group them too. Remember that you also can "box" infantry units (e.g., Hatamoto around an Ashigaru).

[video src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rkojAozCGk"][/video]
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Don't make boxes... It's lame and will just piss a bunch of people off.
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