I've always thought it'd be good if the cost of changing formation was tied to the quality of the troops doing so.
E.G.: A guard unit should be better drilled than a newly raised conscript or Landwehr one and would perform the change at a quicker pace and be less likely to fall into disorder whilst doing so.
Here's the correct answer on this. Documentation will be updated with the next patch cycle:
Formation change costs are 50% of the original movement point costs available to a unit. For example, an infantry battalion starts with 10 movement points. It moves forward 1 hex in Line formation for a cost of 3 and can still change formation at a cost of 5, with 2 points remaining.
don't know but something I miss from the campaign series is the button that reserves the movement points to change formation, so you can click that and then be reasonably safe with your movement and formation change will come to fruition.
Ah, thanks for that.
Could it be considered to remove such obsolete guides like the PDT_Guide, OB_Guide, etc., one can get lost with all these PDFs especially if they are outdated.
Général Christian Hecht
Commandant en Chef de la Grande Armée
Comte et Baron de l'Empire