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Obviously taken in the literal sense of the situation teuton is right, but I've always tried to think in terms of the units representing a command structure, not the whole organization dictated by the size of the unit. Its ridiculous to think an entire mechanized corps(SC tank group) could do an amphibious landing at once. I rationalize it by thinking that only a few echelons, task forces, from that SC tank group "command structure" are actually pulling off the invasion, the rest are awaiting to reinforce, remember the timelines represented by SC turns. Its not outlandish to think an army could eventually be landed in a week, two weeks, a month.

Now for the amphibious limitations. I've always been a proponent of only corps size units being elligible to make amphibious landings. You could add engineers and special forces to that mix and if you think about it the greatest restriction to amphibious operations is the availability of landing craft.

So, I propose that to simulate the building of landing craft, training and amphibious doctrine be correlated to the level of "Amphibious Tech" and the level attained dictates the number of active amphibious units a country may have on the water at any one time.

So if Germany starts out as level one amphib tech, they are only allowed one amphib unit active,"on the water" at any one time. If your amphib tech level is five you get 5 amphib units on the water simultaneously. So now you can restrict certain countries to a realistic amphib doctrine unless they wish to pay the price to develop the capacity.

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Here is masterclaude. As usual, Sir Sea Monkey comes up with the rigth solution for the scope of this game. Many proposals, no matter how justified they could be from an historical or technical point of view, do not fit in SC2 design. Still, I welcome your brainstorming, gentlemen and hope Sir Sea Monkey gets some special retribution from Fury someday for is the best referee in this forum.

See you on september 1 1939 just before Christmas!

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How about an option to share tech, MPPs or possibly "gift" a unit between allied nations?

For example, Germany can give Japan a few duckets to help them build up their fleet, keeping the US in the Pacific longer? (During the war, Germany sent tech and gold via subs to Japan).

Or, say the US wants to give the UK a tank unit prior to the Normandy invasion. It would become property of the UK and count against their total. (US Sherman tanks were given to the UK, which they improved with a larger main gun and gave them the moniker Firefly). Basically, it would be an expansion on the current game mechanic of the adjustable US convoy route to the UK.

Obviously, there would have to be limitations and a cost:)

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Thanks mc, but I'm only one entity of many that have contributed ideas and doctrinal vision to SC over the 7 years of its existance. I am humbled by the thought of so many interacting to get this game to its present stage, but I appreciate your recognition and I'm glad you share my clarity.

Still, dissenting views are just as valuable as they help define the limits of HC's concepts and are always thought provoking as to catalyze new and refreshing byproducts. No one's opinion is without merit, there is always something positive dwelling in the depths of the human imagination.:)

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How about an option to share tech, MPPs or possibly "gift" a unit between allied nations?

For example, Germany can give Japan a few duckets to help them build up their fleet, keeping the US in the Pacific longer? (During the war, Germany sent tech and gold via subs to Japan).

Or, say the US wants to give the UK a tank unit prior to the Normandy invasion. It would become property of the UK and count against their total. (US Sherman tanks were given to the UK, which they improved with a larger main gun and gave them the moniker Firefly). Basically, it would be an expansion on the current game mechanic of the adjustable US convoy route to the UK.

Obviously, there would have to be limitations and a cost:)

That is what convoy lines are made for, because you always give "money", never people to your allies.

It would be nice to have the possibility to send money everywhere, to get a dozen more convoy lines (sea and land).

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Exact ! l'idée de pouvoir créer des chemins pour donner des ressources à un alliés (par terre ou par mer) est une très bonne chose. L'allemagne pourrais ainsi aider le japon ou l'italie, ce qui n'est pas possible actuellement.

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J'ai tous la série des stratégiques command et j'avoue que je suis impatient de voir le conflit global. Par contre, il faut une IA très agréssive mais aussi logique. Voir l'URSS déclarer la guerre à l'allemagne très tôt à cause de facteur diplomatique mais avoir aucune armée n'est pas très logique. a cause de cela, j'ai pu gagner avec l'allemagne, la deuxième guerre mondiale en mai 1944 :)

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ok :)

Correct! The idea to create "road resources to give allies a United Nations (by land or sea) is a very good thing. Germany could thus rescuer Japan or Italy, which is not currently possible.

I have all the series of strategic orders and I confess that I am impatient to see the world conflict. By cons, it takes a very aggressive AI, but also logical. See the Soviet Union declared war on Germany very soon because of diplomatic factor but have no army is not very logical. Because of this, I could win with Germany, The Second World War in May 1944

it's good

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I would like to know, does Global Conflict include so called "advanced weapons and warfare" stuff in that release or is it going to be "gimme more money and i'll give couple new sprites and guns for ya"

Do yourself a favour and take a look here:

http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1486&Itemid=362

This is much more than an update.

Read it and wait with the rest of us all together in agony to learn about the release date. ;)

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Hi Rain Dog,

Yes it handles pretty much any resolution equal to and above 1024x768 and I can confirm that these two specifically are supported as I use them both in my testing.

The game achieves this without stretching and as expected you will see much more of the map with any of the higher widescreen resolutions.

Hope this helps,

Hubert

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Hi Rain Dog,

Yes it handles pretty much any resolution equal to and above 1024x768 and I can confirm that these two specifically are supported as I use them both in my testing.

The game achieves this without stretching and as expected you will see much more of the map with any of the higher widescreen resolutions.

Hope this helps,

Hubert

Great! Much thanks

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I got a couple more.Are we allowed to make it that when the Frenchie ships go crazy and start charging into the Italian ports which causes the Italians to take un-necessary losses we can tell the Italian ships not to fire?

Will we be allowed to place our embarking troop trans. in any adjacent tile thats allowed and not let the computer choose?Sometimes this can matter.

When engineers start to fortify a tile and they move for whatever reason will the computer keep track of what the engineers have done and allow them to continue where they left off?The work that they had started would still be there provided no enemy unit had attacked the tile in question.

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How do the players feel about port and city upgrades as now defined by the city AA upgrade that costs 10 MPPs?

Here's where I'm going, since anti-air and artillery will not be in the Global campaigns I believe there should be an upgrade availabe for ports, cities, capitals, and towns/villages. For ports, all the defensive bonuses(DBs) should start at 1, that's naval(N), submarine(U), air(A), carrier©, and bombers(B), same for the capitals and cities, but towns/villages start at 0.

Now you have the choice of upgrading each location to three levels, depending on the tech advancements, of either or both "Urban" and "Harbor" enhancements. Each level of "Urban" upgrades costs 30 MPPs and is effective in bringing your NDB, CDB, BDB, and ADB to the next level, a max of 4 for all applied defensive bonuses(3 levels, 90MPPs). For "Harbor" developments, the same with the addition of UBD, but harbors are a little more problematic so 50 MPPs for each level(150 total).

Reasoning for the upgrades is we're not concerned with just guns, but sub nets, mines, patrol craft, etc for harbors and radar, a fighter contingent, command and control, etc enhancements for the urban locations.

Do you want to couple these with the garrison question with a greater MPP cost for SD and TD upgrades so enemy units must make a successful attack on the installations before they can occupy?

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I am with you all the way.

Simple upgrades would enhance the game quite a lot.

Upgrade a tile with garrison, with AA, with AT, with Arty, or even with supply.

Upgrade a unit just as well.

More movement points needed? Upgrade your unit.

Your HQ should be able to attack? Buy AT, Artillery or Garrison upgrades for it,

Even better would be if Hubert would introduce and widen out the idea he had / the concept of the carriers in Pacific Theater (strength points for hull and planes divided).

Let your Army lose or gain AT points, Tank points, infantry points, or even TAC AIR points. This would be possible if each one would have a separate strength point scala.

Maybe this could be an idea for SC3.

Research would allow you to buy more AT strength points, the higher the AT level, the more strength points you can buy.

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This isn't exactly regarding new features, but here goes: What are system requirements? I run a pretty old machine with 2.8 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM and 128MB graphics card. Big scenarios from existing SC versions can take a while to resolve, so before pre-ordering I'd like to know if I'm going to be okay running Global Conflict?

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Hi Chodan,

The minimum specs would be the same as they were for the Pacific Theater release and are as follows:

CPU: 1 GHz Processor

RAM: 512 MB

OS: Windows XP/Vista

DirectX: 7

Video Card: 128 MB with 32-Bit Color supporting at least 1024 pixels in height and 768 pixels in width

Sound Card: 16-Bit DirectSound compatible

CD-ROM: 8x or better

HD: 800MB free Hard Disk space

Your system would of course have no issues with the game and in fact I run a very similar system for development. Added to that we've introduced a new 'Quick Animation' feature that cuts the AI animation time in half as well as several AI optimizations that have dramatically improved the speed of the AI. For example the early Global map turns, run with Quick Animation run at about 2 to 3 minutes on my end.

That being said we will have a Demo released, ready for when the game is shipping, and you can always re-evaluate then if needed.

Hope this helps,

Hubert

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I love the new Global Conflict Manual, exciting to read only.

OK, the new manual says under the script for 1939 World at War that a change of the Norwegian convoy routes is possible.

But under the condition, that Sweden belongs to Axis. Seems to be a bit strange, isn't it?

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The minus of that decision is that Lulea harbour got no acess to the Baltic Sea during Winter which results in loosing MPP´s. On the other hand you can avoid a Allied sea blockade. I realized the frozen harbour during my offensive operations.

Then i needed the Mpps arrrg :)

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