Editing Combat (section)

== Formation ==
Formation is the starting position of your army in a fight/battle. Units are spread as evenly as possible from top to bottom, with the topmost position being filled by the leftmost creature in the hero's army (and vice versa). For example: having units in slots 1/2/3 is the same as having them in slots 2/6/7.

The 2 options for army formation can be toggled on the hero screen. This changes how the units are grouped on your side of the battle. If you have 1, 6, or 7 stacks in your army, toggling between formations makes no difference as to how the units are placed on the battlefield.
* '''Loose''' spreads the units out evenly from top to bottom
* '''Tight''' clusters the units together in the center of the player's side of the battlefield

Loose has the advantage of spacing your units apart, making "splash" attacks from those [[dragons]] with [[breath attack]] or [[lich]] and their [[death cloud]] attack, and spells like [[fireball]] less likely to hit multiple units. 

Tight has an advantage of grouping units tightly, and can help protect archers and ranged attackers.

When fighting [[creature bank|creature banks]], the hero's army will be arranged in a special way, forming a hexagon (or part of one) in the center of the battlefield, while the defenders of the bank will be arranged around the outside.  Tight/loose and tactics have no impact on the formation of your army when fighting a creature bank.