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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 5001562" data-attributes="member: 115">It sounds like they're on Hold.  Under the portraits, there is a small circle with either a hand (Hold) or a running man (Tactics).  Having your characters on hold prevents them from using tactics, generally.There's one in Warden's Keep (DLC) but I agree it should have been in the camp in the first place.  There's a mod by one of the developers (Brian Chung, I think) that puts one there.These I agree with.  Bioware has a bad habit of doing this.  I wouldn't mind so much if it was something like one of the "bosses."  I wouldn't mind it if there was character specific dialogues and those characters were in my party (for example, the end of Orzammar).  However, it seems like often there are too many times where they do it and shouldn't.  Furthermore, if I have a character with Survival, I shouldn't be getting ambushed ever.  That's why I put points into that skill.That said, I haven't run into too many tactical problems with it.  Generally I take my mage and Leliana and move them back before they take any actions, while Alistair and Oghren run in screaming.  That prevents the others from taking too many hits.  Once in a while it's ridiculous though, especially when you're fighting a lot of mages.My big "encounter" related pet-peeve is how difficulty is often established by swarming the party with enemies.  It makes tactical positioning of my warriors damn near impossible when eight guys are on them.  In fact, that's how I started to learn to micromanage them; it's still not 100%, but a well placed Two-Handed Sweep can do wonders.  Still, I think that Bioware's encounter design is fairly lacking.  I can't help but compare it to 4E encounter design, where there's a lot of synergy between enemies, a lot of interesting tactics and abilities enemies have access to, and overall less strong enemies and more minions.  All in my opinion, of course.</blockquote>

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