Tips & Tricks: 10 Helpful Unit Order Tips And Tricks Everyone Should Know

Here are some helpful unit order tips and trick everyone should know! Wargame: Airland Battle is a very complex game, and the documentation isn't always complete, so a lot of players can play for months before figuring these out. If you are a beginner make sure you learn the keyboard shortcuts for unit orders, and customize them in the options to best suit you.

Thank you to my friends for helping me crowd source these tips. They are a great group of guys, who always have my back in game, and keep me laughing!

1) - QUEUEING ORDERS

You can issue a queue of orders to a unit to be executed in sequence by holding down the shift button while issuing orders.

2) - ORDERING SUPPLY UNITS TO RESUPPLY ITSELF

Right clicking on a FOB when you have a supply unit selected will tell it to move to the FOB, and resupply itself. This can be used with a queue of orders, for example - move fast to FOB -> resupply from FOB -> move fast back to the front line. This can also be used to tell a non-supply unit like a tank to move to a supply unit and resupply itself, but be careful doing so with a supply helicopter though as it will cause the supply helicopter to take off and move closer to the unit.

3) - DEPLOYING A FULL GROUP OF UNITS

Holding down the control button while clicking on a unit in the deployment menu will automatically deploy a full group.

4) - DEPLOYING A DUPLICATE GROUP OF UNITS

Holding down the shift button while placing a deploying unit will automatically duplicate the unit to be placed again.

5) - CHOOSING THE SPAWN SECTOR A UNIT DEPLOYS FROM

You can choose the spawn sector a unit comes in through by placing the new unit in that sector, then once it flashes you can then click and drag it to where you want it to end up.

6) - ORDERING PLANES TO PATROL

Shift right clicking two spots on the map will order a plane to keep flying a patrol between those two points.

7) - QUEUING ATTACK ORDERS FOR PLANES

You can queue attack orders for a plane by shift right clicking on a number of enemy planes. Add a shift evac order at the end to get your interceptors to automatically evac once the last plane is destroyed.

8) - ATTACK ORDER

Issuing an attack order to a unit will cause it to move towards where you click and stop when within range to fire its weapons. This is extra helpful with kinetic weapon armed units, which might have to move closer than maximum range to damage a heavily armored unit.

9) - REVERSE

Ordering a unit to reverse will allow it to move away from the enemy while still leaving it's better armored front facing the enemy. Queue this order after an attack order on a specific unit to have your unit automatically move forward, destroy the unit, then reverse back into cover.

10) - AUTOMATICALLY SPLITTING A GROUP INTO INDIVIDUAL UNITS

Select a grouped unit, hit the split button, then right click somewhere on the map, and the unit will automatically split into individual units.

If you know of any tips I didn't cover here, leave them in the comments and I'll add them and give you credit.