Men of War question

[noxnoctum]

I just bought this, cause a lot of my clanmmates got it for the steam sale so we could play it online... I tried the demo and the free MP for 2 weeks a while back and thought it was micro hell... so I was wondering do you guys have any tips?

I like the OPTIONS the game offers, such as being able to split squads up and pick up weapons etc... but in the heat of battle it's nearly impossible (at least for me) to manage that kind of thing.

One thing I appreciated about CoH (which was a great game regardless of whether it was "unrealistic) was that it was pretty light on the micro. Your men were in squads and you would give orders to them as a group (such as throwing grenades). You didn't have to stop, select that one guy, select the grenade, throw it, and then select the whole squad to get the guy back in the group. Or for example, when you had a ranger squad (one of whose members carries a zooka), you didn't have to select that one guy, you could just order the whole squad to attack the tank or whatever it was and bam, the AI was smart enough to get the guy with the zooka to kill it.

Am I missing something here? I would KILL for a way to select a squad AS A WHOLE and order them to throw grenades (or rocket launcher or whatever) as a group, instead of having to select that one individual guy to do it.

Sometimes, it's nice to be able to have individual soldiers running around, for scouting etc... but most of the time I want them staying in squads so I'm not controlling like 40 different units at once! (all of whom need to be carefully looked after and put in cover)