Open Order units tend to adopt a looser formation. Where the warriors within a Close Order formation will fight shoulder to shoulder, protecting one another with shield and spear, warriors in an Open Order formation fight in a more individual manner, striking and parrying with sword and buckler, or swinging great, double-handed weapons. Whatever the case, Open Order units are far more manoeuvrable than Close Order units.
To represent this, units arrayed in an Open Order formation have the following abilities: