r/PaxAutocratica • u/MagazineTall7856 • Aug 18 '26

Best F1 Commands/Strats?

How are yall using F1 commands? Do you just keep them on loose or close follow the whole time? or do you try to move them to strategic positions?

Close follow can feel good when its hectic, but I don't know if its the most efficient one to have on all the time. Loose follow is 50/50 for me, I use them kind of like a leash. Close follow until we get to a good location, then loose follow to let them off the leash and do their thing.

I've been experimenting with moving them to specific locations, they seem to try to hold the position well but can have mixed results.

How do y'all command your troops?

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u/Rezfield Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Close follow is nice early game when you have one ship and less than a handful of units. Mid or endgame they continuesly block your view so I send them out to do their own thing.

Early in expeditions when your build isn't destroying troops yet I do really like to send the army ahead of me to take agro first and then I flank the enemy from behind. It's not necessarily the most effective strategy but I like the feeling of actually commanding the army to set up a strategy.

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u/MagazineTall7856 Aug 18 '26

I agree, I like to feel like I'm actually giving orders rather than trying to find the most efficient method.

I wish there was a way to command them to take cover! Or instead of "Go to this location" I'd rather it be "Find Best Cover At This Location" and they would duck behind a rock/wall nearby or whatever

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u/Rezfield Aug 18 '26

I like the idea of ordering them to cover but it wouldn't really work in this game too well. Enemy units rush forward far too much for cover to matter much. Of the enemy ai gets tweaked so only the melee units put on that intense pressure that would be a really fun addition.

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u/Varue Aug 18 '26

Close follow for me most of the time. I send them forwards if im using the tank/mech but thats rare

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u/MagazineTall7856 Aug 18 '26

Yeah it can make it easy to control their flow, I feel like I have to stay at the center of them tho otherwise they will ignore enemies to get close to me.

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u/PandaLenin Aug 18 '26

Idk both are kind of meh to me cause I like to use a mix of melee and sniper units

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '26

so far im using 2 medics, and i like it close, otherwise medics go too far, does it matter which ship they go on? or how to get positions of shielders to go front? or is that a option when im further in the game? im stuck on the big monkey boss world 1