Formation: Archers & soldiers

[Haegemon]

Since we know that arrows can kill alies (this is a fact at the moment), it's important to know if we have total control of our armies, I mean, if I say "soldiers fight holding positions", they will not rush against enemy disvanding and pursuing it like crazy when it will be close, cos if I say "archers fire" my crazy units will start to die.
This is the normal behavior in all RTS games. (For that reason I asked not long before about IA, without success.)

Also to know if units can adquire diferent combat formations (in screenshots we can see only formations in column of three).
Archers could be in line.

Or if some units can mantain the formation in battleground. For Example I can put a line of spearmen in front to shield soldiers or archers from enemy cavalery attacks or enemy swordmen before open my lines to fight hand by hand.

[Alex]

yes in KoH we will have the line formation and all the others you asked.

[Henrik]

Haegemon, I don't think that the devs makes the "classical" mistake, so you'll end up with units walking around like mindless zombies ;)

I think that when you tell a unit to Stand Grund it will do so untill you tell it to do something else or its morale get so low that it flees from the battlefield. We have talked a lot about this and i'm quite sure that the devs are aware of it.

[Haegemon]

Well, I hope you were right, cos normally units engage enemy disvanding automatically.

Btw I think devs should post something about unit formations in the main page. :)