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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/9/2010 11:24:02 PM   
Franklin Nimitz

 

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Status: offline 		A different approach to the Fire command that I think would be more suitable for an operational game is using it as a "set kill zone" order- if you give a unit or formation the Fire command it will either:
(a) If the unit can see the location the fire command is set at, it will face that direction, and will fire if an enemy unit moves into the kill zone, or
(b) If the unit cannot see the fire command location, it will move to a location where it can see, and then defend per (a).

This could be used with the ambush selection quite effectively, or conventionally on defense to ensure the critical approaches to a position are covered.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/10/2010 3:51:29 AM   
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I like your idea. It's much more realistic that the unit tracker approach. Do I take it that you also want to restrict the force's fires to that zone alone. Ie if a threat appears elsewhere it won't fire at it.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/10/2010 6:25:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Arjuna

FN,

I like your idea. It's much more realistic that the unit tracker approach. Do I take it that you also want to restrict the force's fires to that zone alone. Ie if a threat appears elsewhere it won't fire at it.


I like the idea. I would answer your question by saying that it wouldn't fire at the threat unless fired on by it.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/10/2010 7:07:02 PM   
Franklin Nimitz

 

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ORIGINAL: Arjuna

FN,

I like your idea. It's much more realistic that the unit tracker approach. Do I take it that you also want to restrict the force's fires to that zone alone. Ie if a threat appears elsewhere it won't fire at it.


Perhaps that could be adjustable based upon aggro setting- ranging from min(ambush mode)- units will fire exclusively in the kill zone; up to max aggro, where they fire at anything that moves that they can see anywhere. In that case, the kill box setting would really only help govern the deployment of the units.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/11/2010 6:23:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Forgive the ignorance here, I'm a new owner who has read through the manual and is on day 4 of the tutorial - Assuming the enemy is in the unit's LOS, would just having it set to defend with high Aggro & ROF ensure they would keep the targets under fire until the targets were destroyed or moved out of LOS?

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/11/2010 7:10:39 PM   
Franklin Nimitz

 

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Status: offline 		yes, but this 'kill zone' idea is to ensure that units will position themselves to ensure they have a LOS to a particular patch of ground.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/13/2010 2:59:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes - I like the "kill zone" idea very much - I was referring my question more to the original issues raised.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/13/2010 11:49:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		The kill zone concept is good IMHO. After thinking it through ... as a tanker for example ... if you lock on to a group of armored targets, they're usually in a Kill Zone and whether those targets are in unit A (or company A) or unit B is irrelevant. If you can see them, they are targets of opportunity.

good stuff

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/17/2010 6:29:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		How about a message about capturing/intercepting the enemy's supply convoys? I spend a fair amount of time making sure my supply lines are in order and try to fix situations where my convoys are getting intercepted. It would seem that having the reverse information (i.e., capture of enemy supply convoy) would be useful intelligence. I think it may also help in tracking down those "pesky" units way behind your lines since their supply must be getting intercepted as well.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/19/2010 11:24:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Now having played with the demo a little bit, things I´d like to see in the future would be, arty smoke missions, flame tanks (brit Crocodile would be cool in particular), blinking or highlighted units, after clicking the related message in the message box, turnable map (I prefer moving/playing my units bottom up, which feels more naturally to me), a "LOS area" option that always allows checking LOS as under perfect (weather/TOD) conditions, a more accurate micro grid of maybe 50m, to avoid those gross inacuracies, when using the terrain data tool and compare with what you actually see on the map, a more realistic FOW presentation (looks unrealistic, when a unit is one time reported as beeing a Panther tank unit, another time a Stug unit and so forth. Units should be reported as basic infantry, tank, or else and then grudally uncovered to be of the correct type over time), distinct weapon sound FX, at least for those that have one (like german MG42 buzzsaw,..), including primed/unprimed bridge status info to FOW routines, an automatic stop (configurable, like in the HOI game series)for particular important game status messages. So far so good.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/21/2010 1:21:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		The messages come in 3 colours: Red, Yellow and Green.

That the player can choose that the game pauses on:
Red, Yellow and Green messages or;
Red and Yellow messages or;
Red messages only or;
Neve pause on a message.


When I click on a mesage in the message box, it centers the map over the unit. However sometimes its not obvious which unit it is. That the unit be highlighted in a Red, Green or Yellow border as the case may be.

Click on the map and the coloured border goes away.
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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/21/2010 4:46:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Re pausing on message of type X. Would it be also worth just slowing the game, rather than pausing?

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/21/2010 8:29:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'd like to see the map scrolling limits changed so that the center of the map window can go as far as the map corners. It annoys me when I right click near a unit and try to drag that part of the map to the centre of the window, but because the unit is near the map edge, it's sort of stuck. This will allow any unit to be brought to the centre of the window, which could make jumping to unit location (e.g. for associated messages) more consistent. This might not suit everybody, so it would make sense to have an option to enable/disable it.

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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/21/2010 8:36:17 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Arjuna
Re pausing on message of type X. Would it be also worth just slowing the game, rather than pausing?



I love more options: The player has another option that on message type x he can choose that the game be paused or slowed to the slowest speed.

It may be that with more options, that you now need an options page and things boxes are checked so the option is "ON" or "OFF"

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Original historic German units icons - 7/21/2010 2:14:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to see for German units in place of the NATO symbols the original historic German units icons.
The game is usually so correct!

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RE: Original historic German units icons - 7/26/2010 3:05:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		That'd be nice as an option, but for those of us who'd have no idea but understand NATO symbols, please don't replace them. :P

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RE: Original historic German units icons - 7/26/2010 4:05:36 PM   
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That'd be nice as an option, but for those of us who'd have no idea but understand NATO symbols, please don't replace them. :P


Learning is the key to success. Do not be so comfortable.
But a an option it would be also great!

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RE: Original historic German units icons - 7/26/2010 4:31:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmm, I'm not sure how using a different set of icons to the perfectly functional NATO ones would help me be more successful, but I would be interested in seeing what they are.

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RE: Original historic German units icons - 7/26/2010 5:21:15 PM   
Templer


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these icons are from a Advanced Tactics mod.

There was also a good and informative site on the Internet but I can´t find it anymore.

And no, these icons won´t (like many of the proposals to new features in this thread) help you be more successful, but adds more historical, accurate feeling to the game.

Here are some examples:




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RE: Original historic German units icons - 7/27/2010 12:17:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Germans invented the concept of such symbols in the first place.

After WW2, NATO embraced the conmcept of symbols and produced the NATO symbols we know.

Using German symbols on German troops would add a bit of flavour.

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RE: Original historic German units icons - 7/27/2010 1:27:44 AM   
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http://niehorster.orbat.com/011_germany/symbols/_symbols_39.html

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Chief, you got them - 7/27/2010 2:18:30 AM   
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Exactly what I meant.

I'm still fairly new to the game. To fresh to make specific proposals on technical gameplay features.

I would, however, enjoy some graphical additions to the game very much.

By that I mean no Hollywood mature graphic explosions or other eye-catcher.

I would also like to see division patches in the game.






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RE: Future Directions - Features - 7/28/2010 11:47:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Franklin Nimitz

A different approach to the Fire command that I think would be more suitable for an operational game is using it as a "set kill zone" order- if you give a unit or formation the Fire command it will either:
(a) If the unit can see the location the fire command is set at, it will face that direction, and will fire if an enemy unit moves into the kill zone, or
(b) If the unit cannot see the fire command location, it will move to a location where it can see, and then defend per (a).

This could be used with the ambush selection quite effectively, or conventionally on defense to ensure the critical approaches to a position are covered.


I have been thinking about a friendly fire option and forcing you to think about where to approach, how and with what. Either you give firezones and/or declare paths for movement that don't interdict anybody else's line of fire.

As of now the unit formation governs the speed, the amount of firepower and the damage a unit can sustain from certain angles. Units tie up roads and hamper each others movements, but that is I understand it all (quite brilliant as it is actually) really.

If a company started to move around between another company and the enemy, either the own volume of fire would go down, or you would suffer of fratricide, lower cohesion and eventually a route.

When I play I regard that this is abstracted enough into the model on a current scale. But if somebody would do something on a more tactical level such a feature would add a lot to the game (while of course draining massive amounts of processor power)




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Scout/recon button/order - 8/3/2010 5:38:53 AM   
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How about an additional scout/reconnaissance button/command on the Orders tab of the sidebar with preset functions and commands?

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RE: Scout/recon button/order - 8/3/2010 6:43:47 AM   
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What behaviour do you want to see?

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RE: Scout/recon button/order - 8/3/2010 9:32:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		I can't tell for Templer, but as far as I'm concerned, something along the lines:

"Send a few men to the 2 or 3 best sighting spots within our radius, and report what you see. Avoid any shootings"

I don't know how it could be implemented. Maybe just increase LOS capability, decrease chance of being spot, and decrease cohesion status ?

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RE: Scout/recon button/order - 8/3/2010 11:55:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		When I asked about scouting, what I was actually thinking of at the time was a 'move to contact with screens' type behaviour, where you'd see a road column with a unit or two thrown out in advance and in a more combat-ready stance (with the group as a whole concequently moving slower than a regular move order).  When the lead elements come into contact with the enemy then the group automatically deploys into a combat formation. 

I think scouting parties in general would require a bit of fudging to work in the game engine. Does the game pretend that units have men thrown forward in OPs or are is it more of a case of 'neither side has it so there's no imbalance'.

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RE: Scout/recon button/order - 8/3/2010 8:15:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not a WW2 military expert, but maybe (just maybe), this feature should be abstracted in some way, given the scale of the game.

Again, I don't know what the standard scouting procedures have been used there in the WW2 (and in this campaign in particular) but if we're talking about sending 2-3 (or even 10-20 motorised) guys ahead, then that I believe would not be appropriate to visualise on the Command Ops map, since here 100+ people coy are our atoms, the elementary building blocks given the command level simulated.

But probably the feature could be abstracted in some way, so that we actually get the scouting feature in some way.

Maybe it can be done by putting another set of options in the Order details (like "Scouting", possibly with setting - say - the radius, or zone, together with the stealth level).
Upon setting these things, you wouldn't actually see scouts reaching out out there, but internally they'd be set out for the mission so you would get the information if something gets spotted).

I'm just thinking out loud, and I see how what I just wrote may be too complicated and inelegant in comparison to the rest.

At the end, what I like about this game is it's maniacal adherence to historical military mechanics of WW2 operational commanding, so I think it should be done in a way to be accurate by the standards of historical military tactics, while in the same time naturally fitting to the current game mechanics and spirit. Not an easy task.

However, I agree that is seems to me too limiting if the only way to do it is to dettach a 100+ people motorised company, as I'm quite sure there were other ways of doing this in the real war.

Here, that were my 5 cents ...


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RE: Scout/recon button/order - 8/4/2010 1:23:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		One option I have considered is using the recon value we currently store with each unit and modifying this based on a task setting or circumstance. Eg. We could have a recon setting for a task (min, normal, max) and use this to modify the unit/force's standard recon value and recon range. If the unit was defending with a max recon and it was deployed or better then we could assume that a greater percentage of its personnel were patrolling and subsequently increase its chance of detection by expanding its detection range. There should be a downside to this too in that there would be fewer personnel available to defend the position if attacked directly. For a Move, with a max recon setting, we could expand the detection range of the vanguard ( ie the unit in the lead ). Similarly it should suffer a reduction in capability should it be attacked directly.



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RE: Scout/recon button/order - 8/4/2010 2:23:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		That sounds pretty good, but one point - in the books I have read often when a unit is deployed or dug in and has OPs and patrols out and they are succesful, when they perceive an oncoming assault force they have the time to recall the OPs and patrols.

I would think that for a unit defending and deployed the recons (OPs LPs & patrols) would be abstracted into their detection ability - however a moving recon of less than company strength with the ability to order them to avoid contact / observe and report would be nice.

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