Kevin Kinscherf Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 Ever end a battle (quick or otherwise) and triumphantly form up your tanks in a classic fashion? Then you clear the map to the edge and look out to the horrizon with a nice formation but no combat mission? Kevin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Havermeyer- Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 I'll bump this because I don't know what the devil he's talking about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U-107 Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 I beleave he's talking about putting his tanks into a decorative formation...take a screenshot for us... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 Originally posted by U-107: I beleave he's talking about putting his tanks into a decorative formation...take a screenshot for us... I had to read it twelve times, but I think he means he forms his tanks up at the end of the game so as to look splendid, with the setting sun behind them and the commanders tall in the cupolas, gazing off to the East and the promise of further glory. YAAAWWWNNNNNN 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Murray Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 I try to put platoons of Tigers in the formations that I've seen on web sites. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabpub Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 Platoons with "wedgies"? Is Bob the Dinosaur running around in your game again? http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/the_characters/html/character3.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchildstein (ii) Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 it never occured to me to get into wedge formation after the battle, but yes during the battle i try to keep the platoons operating together... sometimes in multiple wedges... sometimes most all platoons in a single line... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Kinscherf Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 Sorry for the cryptic message. I guess the question is what to do productivly or for fun when you have the battle won and there are turns left to play. One thing is to set up for the next "battle". Perhaps form a defence or attack formation. This applies to those times the AI gets defeated quickly. I guess I was also looking for battles that play like a campaign where the time in between battles and firefights may be several turns of repositioning. To often I wish a battle would last longer on good maps or for a better campaign system. I sometimes find troops(even) for the winner are not well deployed to meet a counterattack at the end of a battle - if one actually came in. This can happen during last minute charges of the flags. Kevin [ June 10, 2003, 06:53 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Kinscherf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Those are good points, Kevin. Hmm, maybe you need to design some decent small sized operations for us....? Lord knows there are few enough of them out there... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Kinscherf Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 In my limited play of operations I never liked the next battle set-up. I think the system would move your troops even after you took a few turns to put them in more tactically correct positions. The "front line" never made sense. Perhaps I will re-look. The best campaign system I have come across was linked campaigns in the EF/WF games. They gave the designer lots of control. For example branching to different sub-battles based on the previous results. You could design with any number of maps and OOBs - Kevin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie the Toad Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Kevin, Have you tried playing the BO operation 21st Panzer Attacks ? The map and the flow from one battle to the next are an outstanding feature of the game. It's at the Scenario Depot In it for the long haul....... Toad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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