The only problem I see in this rule is completly killing any chance of working with mixed formations of squats and robots for the trade consortium list.

i had a thought, how about if autonom units that lose their 'overseer' (ie: living) units do not suffer activation penalties and the like, continue to be 'expendable' to each other, but must keep performing the same action they were last told to perform:

ie: if they were told to assault formationX they would keep attempting to do so, if they had last doubled and shot at formationX they can only double and shoot at formationX

this would then allow for other units to have a control rule that means they can issue new orders to independant autonom formations within its control area

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Let's work this through all the permutations. Pretend we had a formation of 5 Squat Warriors and 5 Robots.
1. Movement. No issues. They face the same problems any mixes formation deals with.

2. Shooting. Once again no issues.

3. Assaulting. The autonom rule won't kick in until after the assault resolution, so once again we have no weird effect.

4. Rallying. No effect.

5. Coming under fire. If a formation is shot at, each unit would be dealt with normally.
Ex. The formation takes 6 AP shots which are allocated front-to-back. Four Robots and two Warriors are struck.
The formation takes a BM for coming under fire.
The first two Robots take hits and save.
The second two Robots take hits and are destroyed. No BMs.
The Warriors take hits and are killed. 2 BMs.
Total BMs allocated would be 3 BMs.

6. Breaking. Standard breaking will be the same as it is for any formation.

7. Shot at when broken.
If we apply the rule on a unit-by-unit basis, we get the following result...
Ex. Broken formation of 2 Robots and 2 Warriors, from f-t-b sit R,W,W,R. They are shot at with 2 AP shots, which are allocated to one Robot and one Warrior.
One hits the robot which does not make it's save. One hits the Warrior which does make the save.
The first Robot is removed for the loss.
The first Warrior is removed for the BM associated with being shot at.
?? Should the next Warrior be removed for losing the Robot? It seems that this would be correct but I am unsure.

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