Revised manual posted

[Tamas]

Hello Everyone,

As Frank mentioned, the patch itself (with the manual included, of course) will arrive next week, but in the meantime, you can download the revised manual here:

http://www.slitherine.com/files/Piercin ... _EBOOK.pdf

[Alex1812]

Thanks for manual! We are really want to see 1.01 patch to start the new PBEM game

[tombo]

Thanks for the manual...much better.

Digging into the combat mechanics a little..what does a Unit's strenght point equal too? Like 2000 troops on avg? How does armor affect that number?

Also, does a attacking armor unit get benefits over a INF unit (or vice versa) in calcs.?

The Victory bar shown, does it reflect the number of victory hexes controlled or all hexes controlled, etc. please expand.

cheers

[FrankHunter]

There's no absolute # of tubes equal to a strength point. Instead I took some divisions, worked out a combat strength based on 1 per 1,000 troops but fudged that for what I thought would feel right for staying power, firepower etc, and set their combat strengths accordingly. Then I set the other divisions and brigades based off my sample.

There's a lot of differences between infantry and armour units.

Armour and infantry units use different combat tables. Armour with 0 combat supply is weaker than infantry with 0 combat supply. But with 3 combat supply armour fires at 200%, whereas infantry fires at 166%. The terrain effects on each type mean armour is superior in clear terrain and infantry is superior in rough (mountain troops and commandos are even better in rough).

Infantry has a much shorter recovery time than armour from disruption.

Armour has a better chance of withdrawing ahead of an enemy attack and almost a 50% better chance of reinforcing a hex before its attacked. In clear terrain attacking armour units have a better chance of pinning an enemy before it can withdraw.

Of course armour units also have a higher movement rate.

The victory bar is the number of victory points accrued, the maximum being the number of points necessary to win a decisive victory.

[tombo]

excellent..theres so much behind the scenes here. WELL DONE!
[:D]

[jack54]

ORIGINAL: tombo

excellent..theres so much behind the scenes here. WELL DONE!
[:D]

+1

I tend to only look at the size number and terrain...guess I got some learning to do.

Hmmmmm...So those size 1 commando units can be in combat...I got them guarding ports[:(]

[radic202]

A huge thanks from me.

[Moltke71]

ORIGINAL: radic202


A huge thanks from me.

You're welcome!