On a slightly different topic. How did you manage to swap the red and blue indicators? Your troops are blue, their troops are red - is there an option for that?
Options-4.21 and 4.23(Nato).
As far as getting your troops to face as you want on line,you might have to do column then face in the direction of the enemy and then on- line move. I know it's alot of commands, but this game isn't like the other game you mentioned for pre - WW 2.
You won't be able to do this with the quick orders!