It has to deal with attack ranges. If a unit is being attacked outside their range, they remain standing/take the hits without doing anything. E.g. artillery hitting units or rangers attacking shotgunners. (You kind of want this otherwise your entire infantry line would leave the trenches to go after the artillery and get kited/gunned down without you ever doing anything or knowing other than "our forces are under attack---a squad has been lost")

You can issue an attack move and units will attack anything along their path/range and if they are attacked outside their range, they will typically go after whatever they attacked. However, you need to be careful since they can easily get kited or pulled away from your intended path.

So, you may want to start having control groups (CTRL+number) so you can quickly jump to your units and respond accordingly. Alternatively, you could try lowering the difficulty if you are being overwhelmed handling multiple fronts until you get more accustomed to the gameplay/etc,

kay first i must note this i experienced only gave me a major headache on the last soviet mission, and no its not difficulty and its not range im not talking just about artillery its the other mechs too! theyre standing there and troops passing by them and shooting them from behind and they just dont respond i have to click on them and order them to attack! i believe the game seriously needs an agressive stance that WORKS and makes your units target anything in range, or more defensive and attack only when attacked and also important a stand your ground command so they never move from the postition! i mean tha hell older games than ME have all these traits why is yours missing? also would be ... not that necessary but nice if every heavy unit one deploys would care not to wreck every sandbag/bwire fortification along theyr sometimes generous paths... if these issues are adressed ill be able to play again.

No, it's a life farming simulator.

Originally posted by Degenerate Trap:

No, it's a life farming simulator.

NHL for PC

I thought it was a children's snowball fight simulator

Got sick of it pretty FAST.