Olle Petersson Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 Out of curiosity, because I'm thinking of recommending this game for a friend who is designing an strategic/operational level game, but need something tactical to solve battles, What's the largest battle possible in TacOps? Map and unit-per-side size? TIA Olle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Sterrett Posted August 6, 2002 Share Posted August 6, 2002 I don't recall the exact maximum map dimensions, but it's around 30x30km. The largest game I'm aware of put the best part of a motorized rifle division on one map slugging against several battalions of Blue. I believe the main limit on the number of units is processor speed and available memory..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Petersson Posted August 6, 2002 Author Share Posted August 6, 2002 Thanks, that was what I needed to know. The new feature with SOP seems to fit like a glove with my friends game rules... Cheers Olle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted August 11, 2002 Share Posted August 11, 2002 Olle, Just tried an experiment with 6 BMP regiments against 5 mech infantry bn's Both sides had also 45 choppers ,10 air sorties and 10 artillery units(off map) It ran on map 202 and I had no problems,the game ran very smooth played on a Athlon 1,4 processor with 256 mb memory remarks,even on click sounds such a big battle takes long to do a turn if 600 units+ starts firing on eachother,I dont know if that wil be fun. Did 20 turns 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 11, 2002 Share Posted August 11, 2002 Originally posted by Stoffel: Just tried an experiment with 6 BMP regiments against 5 mech infantry bn's Both sides had also 45 choppers ,10 air sorties and 10 artillery units(off map) You're setting up our next PBEM, Stoffel? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted August 12, 2002 Share Posted August 12, 2002 If you want to try a battle that big,than its ok with me What about this evening? Would be a nice test to see if the dataflow is fast enough to coop with all those units I propose: 4 Mechbn with tankssupport(mixed german/dutch) And a bn of Apaches/PAH AT choppers against 4 BMP regiments with tank and artillery support and choppers too Agree??? The looser writes the AAR 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 12, 2002 Share Posted August 12, 2002 I wish my definition of evening would be the same as yours, I'd be all for adding to the "how to drive the Major crazy" category "Hey Major, in the appended 1.4 GB autosave (for your convinience first zipped, then bzip2'ed and then stuffed (yeah, makes it bigger)), when the unit number 2344 takes it 200th ATGM shot at that single motorcycle 9km away (did we mention we had visiblity set to 13000m?) you will notice that..." [computer crashed] [ August 12, 2002, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: redwolf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted August 13, 2002 Share Posted August 13, 2002 LOL!!! It was just a joke,do you really think I have time for such a huge battle but if you want ,pbem will do fine 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Gilbert Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Actually ... I've got a pbem battle going on now on Map780 [30 x 15 km] that is quite large. A mixed U.S.Army Heavy Bde [4 maneuver Bns, 1 Arty Bn, 1 Helo Bn, 1 Sct Co ... etc] -vs- a late 80's Soviet Experimental formation called a New Army Corps [1 x Tk Bde, 2 x Mech Bde, Recon Bde, 2 x Arty Bde etc ...] Both formations have been upgraded to new equiptment and "very few" options turned on. We are just 145 turns into the game so we are still fighting the screening battle. We set the scenario to go for 600 minutes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 HI Jeff, that really sounds like you have too much leisure time or maybe worse........no life at all very cool henk 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Gilbert Posted August 16, 2002 Share Posted August 16, 2002 Probably a bit of all that is true. However, I would like ot have even more time on my hands. We generally get through 3 turns a week ... sometimes more ... simetimes a lot more. Once we finish working the play balance out I will finish up the documentation and post it to the mail group ... or send it to any one who wants it. I guess the point is that TacOps can model quite a large force without any hiches. None of the machines are super powered either. A MacG3 B&W playing Blue and an AMD K6-2 450 for Red. Both with 1GB RAM. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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