[lowfighter]

Maybe making the soldier to be armor is also good because you can then assemble a squad as custom tank column. The tank columns have the property to spread in combat formation when coming within enemy sight so then you'd have march formation when the squad column is away from enemy and combat formation when the squad approaches enemy. Long ago I've been testing a custom column of 8 tanks and they went in combat formation provided a distance parameter was set not to high but I don't remember details.