Edwin P.
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For the sub war, the USA convoy routes should start at the Port of New Orleans and travel north along the Atlantic coast.
Why? Losses to subs were especially high along the Atlantic coast and in the Carribbean, until the USA navy learned from the British how to protect the convoys, and coastal cities turned off their lights at night as the glow from coastal lights highlighted the outlines of merchant ships and made it easy for Axis ships to target them.
With this change the Axis player would have a wider range of targets and the Allied player would find the job of protecting the convoy routes to me more challenging.
Chart of USA Merchant Shipping Losses by Region
I would also like to see a navy fleet's ability to avoid surprise encounters influenced by its experience and the experience of the opposing fleet.
[ July 31, 2007, 10:17 AM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Agreed, now the engineers don't feel like an engineer unit.
Perhaps, allow engineers to sabotage a tile's road network. A sabatoged tile costs another unit;friendly or enemy,+2APs to move through and clear the roads.
Or, allow engineers to build a port that exists for 2 turns. Just long enough to land or evacuate a few units.
Or, allow engineers to rebuild a scorched city by increasing the recovery rate to +2 per turn, instead of +1.
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Interesting, and new ideas. Keep them coming. Who knows what HC will find interesting.
As for an Intel Recap;
1. Let each level of intel open up new reports
Example:
Level 2 - See Chits invested in research
Level 3 - See Convoy Route MPPs
Level 4 - Chance to See Location of HQ units or popup that gives relative location; not exact location, of enemy HQ unit.
i.e.
Popup: Rommel spotted near Warsaw
Level 5 - Chance to see location of enemy naval and air units.
2. How about Intel increases/decreases the chance for partisan activity
3. A popup that alerts you when Intel has been effective
4. Intel affects the chance for Free Units (i.e. Free French, Free Poles (Free units can cross the border into an adjoining major power).
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Free Units - Units of a surrendered country in the country that surrendered have a chance to become free units. If they do their strength is reduced to 1. To survive they must move into a tile of an adjacent active or neutral major power.
Example: Poland Surrenders. Each surviving Polish unit in Poland has a %; based on Intel, to become a Free Polish unit with a strength of 1. A free unit can move into the tile of a neutral major power (i.e. Russia).
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I would like to be able to play as Russia and have the AI control the Western Allies.
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In the Pacific don't forget the Chinese!
The war in China tied down most of Japan's Army.
Imagine what Japan could have done if they had not tried to conquer all of China, but just kept the north eastern industrial part, and as Jersey John has suggested in the past, focused on conquering SE Asia and Australia.
From my point of view the two theaters are linked. Forces sent to Europe are not available to fight in the Pacific.
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In the Pacific don't forget the Chinese!
The war in China tied down most of Japan's Army.
Imagine what Japan could have done if they had not tried to conquer all of China, but just kept the north eastern industrial part, and as Jersey John has suggested in the past, focused on conquering SE Asia and Australia.
From my point of view the two theaters are linked. Forces sent to Europe are not available to fight in the Pacific.
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It would also be nice if the chance for an attacking ship to make the first attack was not so predictable.
If a cruiser moves to attack a battleship, a warship with longer range guns, the battleship should have a chance to strike first; especially if its commander has more experience.
[ May 05, 2007, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Or U-Boats running silent should be able to sail through enemy port tiles, with a chance of taking damage from enemy ships in port.
Example:
U-Boat running silent sails through unoccupied port title = No Damage
U-Boat running silent sails through port tile occupied by Cruiser = Chance for Cruiser Attack on U-Boat based on relative experience (50% +/-10% per medal).
Example - Sub attempting to transit enemy port tile:
Sub 1 Medal, Enemy Cruiser 0 Medal = 40% Sub Attacked
Sub 2 Medal, Enemy Cruiser 0 Medal = 30% Sub Attacked
Sub 0 Medal, Enemy Cruiser 2 Medals = 70% Sub Attacked
Sub 4 Medal, Enemy Cruiser 2 Medal = 30% Sub Attacked
This would increase the importance of stationing a naval unit at the port of Gibraltar.
[ May 05, 2007, 12:38 PM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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From my experience, it depends on where the Allied navy is, and if your parachute unit manages to take Oslo in one turn.
Its a calculated risk.
PS: You can try it in the fall.
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Just the base bonus a believe.
In this case this is a 4/16 = 25% increase in your base chance to achieve a higher tech level.
[ April 28, 2007, 08:20 AM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Perhaps, each level of Intel gives you a 5% per turn to spot the location of each enemy HQ or naval vessel.
Example: Intel Level 2
Enemy HQ 1 - 10% to spot
Enemy HQ 2 - 10% to spot
Ship 1 - 10% per turn to spot
Ship 2 - 10% per turn to spot
Thus in this case with Intel level 1 you may spot the location of 0, 1 or 2 HQ units each turn. Interpreted properly this may tell you the intentions of your enemy.
At Intel level 5 you would have a 25% per turn to spot each enemy naval ship.
[ April 27, 2007, 05:59 AM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Good question. The problem is that sending UK troops into Spain is a deathtrap, that costs you valuable units while delaying the Axis advance for only a turn or two.
When my opponent does this I will often; but not always, invest MPPs to influence the USA to enter the war sooner than normal.
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I can understand why intel only affects your catch-up bonus, as you would not steal inferior technology.
But shouldn't intel do something more?
For me it does not feel like intel of WWII that supplied partisan units (France, Greece, Norway and Yugoslavia for example), uncovered enemy spies, sabotaged enemy diplomatic efforts, obtained early warnings of incoming air attacks, and monitored enemy communications (Ultra).
[ April 25, 2007, 08:12 PM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Yes.
In the SC Editor
1st. Save Campaign under a new name
2nd. Go to MAP > Edit Map Size
---- and enlarge the map to the East and South
3rd. Go to MAP > Shift Contents
----Then Move the Map to East.
----Then Move the Map to the South.
Then you can enlarge the USA as shown in the sample below.
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They are likely waiting for a place to unload. The problem is that sometimes their is no place to unload to and especially if the AI is trying to load up amphibious transports at the same time.
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Nice work. Looking forward to playing with the entire package.
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The areas I would improve
1. AI - the Axis AI's ability to invade and take Spain (as it seems incapable of doing when such invasions are scripted) and the Allied AI's ability to take Spain in one turn when invading from Portugal.
2. Spanish AI - I would like to see the AI deploy its units to meet expected invasion threats. If the Allies are building up in Portugal then deploy neutral units to Western Spain. If Axis units are deploying along the French border then deploy units to North Eastern Spain.
[ April 04, 2007, 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Tip 1: To take Benelux in one turn use air power (two or three air strikes) to soften up the garrison and then attack, keep a corps in reserve to take the city when the defending garrison is defeated by the two attacking ground units. Don't waste an attack on the unit outside Brussels until you occupy Brussels. Once Brussels is occupied the country surrenders.
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Good AAR, and good ideas too - take Nordic countries and Spain. Waiting to see how it plays out.
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They are great for spotting enemy naval units; that is if the Axis decides to wage a battle for the Atlantic or if the Italian navy breaks out into the Atlantic.
That said, in most games the naval battles are a side show and the Axis usually concedes the Atlantic to the Allies.
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PS: Hubert is a one man shop, and although we all wish for more features keep in mind that each new enhancement likely takes; by my estimate, 2 to 3 weeks for programming and testing and updating to make sure that it has no unintended effects on other AI scripts or general game play.
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Youri, I agree. The AI should focus on capturing production points, then capitals and destroying enemy units.
Too often the AI, can be diverted by attacks on units that don't support the primary objective.
Personally, I would like to see the ability to script tiles that should be given secondary priority, such as the Maginot lines or Leningrad.
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Suggestion: One improvement that SC2 needs is the ability to script an invasion of a non-resource tile.
Example, then you could have the AI block the Axis from operating units to Spain by occupying the single tile wide corrider linking Spain and France.
Suggestion: Add plans for air unit scripts. This would allow the AI to concentrate air units on a particular front - for the Allies; either the UK or Spain or North Africa. For the Axis; Russia or Europe or North Africa.
[ March 08, 2007, 09:41 PM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]
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Hyazinth von Strachwitz -
Okay, you might not want to hear it, but here are my reflections on the AI behaviour. Needless to say, 1.06 is a big step ahead as usual.. but there are certain things I still do not understand.. but lets do it one by one.
- the Allied Norway invasion script is great
- the American Portugal invasion script is good, but there should be a HQ attached in the first round
- when the American forces gather for the invasion of Spain from Lisbon to Madrid, they should make sure they capture Madrid in the first round.. otherwise german troops flood into spain and kill the Amerícans one by one.. esp. when the Americans advance without HQs and Air support. I killed 2 American Tanks and 3 Armies in the hills around Madrid which were on supply 0... makes it very expensive to buy them back... and it was far too easy.
How the sub war SHOULD pan out......
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