Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)

[JimMorrison]

I believe that units are placed in formation in a growing spiral, so alternating your recruitment should indeed give you a much better dispersal of your "combined arms" squad - see Figure A.

Figure A:

987
216
345

Due to double digit numbers, I cannot expand the spiral further. Unless I go fully alphanumeric! - see Figure B.

Figure B:

PONML
A987K
B216J
C345I
DEFGH

[chrispedersen]

yeah, that was my point Jim. but I was way to lazy to type it.
can make recruiting a pain in the ***.. but it pays dividends.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

I believe that units are placed in formation in a growing spiral, so alternating your recruitment should indeed give you a much better dispersal of your "combined arms" squad - see Figure A.

Figure A:

987
216
345

Since chris's first post I have been paying more attention to this, and I have observed the opposite: it seems to start in the corner (where you have 3) and build from there. Specifically, I saw one squad

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

get placed like chris's first variant:

GGGG
aaaaaG
aaaaaG
aaaaaG

I'm still gathering observations, though. By the time I come back to Dom3 in a couple of weeks you'll probably have it all figured out.

-Max

[JimMorrison]

Ohhhh, I like this. I've based this mostly off of observations of adding 1 turn of recruitment to your starting army. You're saying it's more like -

567
348
129

Basically building outward in 2 directions from the starting "corner" of the formation?