GENERAL! September 12, 2026 GENERAL! Day 1 Iteration 31

Smooth Engagement Formation

New melee contacts now blend their formation centers onto the resolved adjacent tiles during the attack's settling phase.
Individual soldiers simultaneously fan from marching ranks into the shared-border engagement layout.
Existing engagements remain stationary and retain their already-spread combat formation.
No unique screenshot: this is a transition/animation smoothness change with no static-image signature (like audio, a still frame can't show smoothness), and its settled end-state — soldiers fanned along a shared border — is the same visual state already captured in progress/053-shipped-reconstructed-multi-border-melee.png (Iterations 26/32). Linked rather than reconstructed separately (2026-09-15).