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Did you know that you can switch your units between defensive stance and offensive stance? When units are launched, they start out in defensive stance (grayed out sword icon thing). This means they will follow your orders first and foremost, and attack enemies only if it is convenient to do so. if you select a unit, hold space and mouse over the sword (the bottom right one) you can switch selected units into offensive stance (ctrl+number multiple units to speed up this process). In offensive stance, units will temporarily cancel their orders every time they detect an enemy and go out of their way to attack the enemy until it is destroyed. Once they cannot detect anymore enemies, they will reload their previous orders and continue on their way. This is very handy to avoid units just driving past dangerous units and into fire, but beware that they will not respond to your commands until they cannot attack anymore enemies. This includes docking, even if they run out of ammo! Be sure to take them out of offensive stance using the same radial command if you need them to go somewhere, like say, back to the carrier to restock. If you do not, they will just hang around firing everything they got, and if they have nothing, they will simply hang around, becoming sitting ducks. Using aggressive stance in conjunction with, say, four heavy mantas attacking a modestly defended base, will result in them destroying all the threats with minimal input on your part, leaving the coast clear to send in a walrus to hack the command center. This can remove a lot of tedium from the game. To summarize... Defensive stance (default) - Priority 1.Orders 2.Enemies Offensive stance (lower right radial menu option)- Priority 1.Enemies 2.Orders (sitting ducks if unarmed!)