Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Maddoc06

Fantastic.

Obviously some very clever people have worked very hard on behalf of us all.

How long is around the bend?

Greetings from the Netherlands

Jo van der Pluym
CrazyDutch

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ORIGINAL: Maddoc06

Fantastic.

Obviously some very clever people have worked very hard on behalf of us all.

How long is around the bend?

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ORIGINAL: mbar

I want to hear Bagdad Bob's opinion.

Greetings from the Netherlands

Jo van der Pluym
CrazyDutch

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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

I wanted to highlight one 3.4 feature that can easily be overlooked, since it may seem innocuous: Variable Supply Points.

Note that they will allow different sections of the map to more or less have different Force Supply Levels. And those levels can be varied independently by event.

So, for an ETO scenario the Allies can have separate FSLs in England, France, Italy, Norway, USSR, Africa, etc. The Axis can have ones for Europe, Norway, and Africa, etc. Each can be adjusted independently.

Also, it's a powerful building block for further supply enhancements - see my physical supply suggestion on the Wishlist thread. Concentrations of physical supply would act as variable supply points.


Some other seemingly minor items will have major impact as well:

Adjacent ranged units will now bombard when assigned to an attack. Note that this will improve naval combat.

Engineer effects are now scaled by the fraction of movement allowance the unit has left.

The designer is now armed with an expanded suite of game parameters that he can adjust.

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

Found it in the What's New -

If the line connects to multiple supply points of variable values then the strongest one is broadcast over the line.

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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

We noticed in D21 that in northern Finland, where we purposefully made supply horrible, that there was now no supply. I could guess that this is because of the movement factor calculation included in 3.4 supply rules. Not a problem at all, just mentioning it because if anyone made a scenario that included horrible supply, if they run that scenario under the 3.4 'new supply' rules, it might go from horrible to, um ... more horrible. In that case a supply point adjustment can be done, or maybe running the 'high supply' option? I haven't tried that.

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ORIGINAL: Anthony
Question re. Saving in XML

In section VI. "INTERNATIONALIZATION AND CUSTOMIZATION"

The File pulldown has Open/Save Map in XML and Open/Save Game
in XML options (must not be in Force Editor).

Does this work while in scenario edit mode, while playing the game or both ?

It would be good to have a the XML version of the save file which contained all the data for the save in single file ( would make building utilities much easier :-)

Cheers
Anthony

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ORIGINAL: Erik Nygaard

I just noticed in build 173 that exporting/importing the OOB (no changes) would cause side 2 (only) to appear to be 'read-only'. I cannot selected a unit on the right pane. Sorry about the bad pic quality, blame the 200kb limit.

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ORIGINAL: edk2384

Question-

Is there any way to get rid of the floating thing that shows whats in each hex?

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Clouds even move between player-turns – just without weather effects.

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Also, note that movement recovery is done twice for each side (start of each player-turn). This will clear
the “Retreated” condition for both sides during their own player-turn (previously an unfair advantage for side-one).
It may even make use of reserve deployments more palatable to players.

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23. Old ACOW bug that caused bogus attacker evaporations was found and fixed.

To repeat history in a game is to be predictable.
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ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

I'm not sure what the cloud comment meant. They should be accurate, I think.

We did think about recovering half. This was back when this was supposed to be a simpler patch, so I opted for the simpler solution.

I don't remember exactly, but it was probably while grinding through one of Bob's test scenarios. I think he spits them out daily, and was willing to spend hours in working them to see the results in Excel to point out the bugs I'd introduced. it's a far better game because of that!

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ORIGINAL: Veers

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ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

I'm not sure what the cloud comment meant. They should be accurate, I think.

We did think about recovering half. This was back when this was supposed to be a simpler patch, so I opted for the simpler solution.

I don't remember exactly, but it was probably while grinding through one of Bob's test scenarios. I think he spits them out daily, and was willing to spend hours in working them to see the results in Excel to point out the bugs I'd introduced. it's a far better game because of that!

The cloud comment was at the bottom of the first paragraph of the player 1/2 balancing section. But, if the clouds are accurate, good. :D

Okiedokie.

Well that you Mr. Cross for the hours of work on this one.

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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

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ORIGINAL: Veers

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ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

I'm not sure what the cloud comment meant. They should be accurate, I think.

We did think about recovering half. This was back when this was supposed to be a simpler patch, so I opted for the simpler solution.

I don't remember exactly, but it was probably while grinding through one of Bob's test scenarios. I think he spits them out daily, and was willing to spend hours in working them to see the results in Excel to point out the bugs I'd introduced. it's a far better game because of that!

The cloud comment was at the bottom of the first paragraph of the player 1/2 balancing section. But, if the clouds are accurate, good. :D

Okiedokie.

Well that you Mr. Cross for the hours of work on this one.

Weather effects: mud, snow, etc. are only figured once per turn. But clouds move between player turns - so you can't put a ship under a cloud on your player turn and know that it will still be under that cloud during the enemy player turn. Otherwise, player one could exploit this, but not player two.

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ORIGINAL: Veers
That's good.
So, to be clear, on player one and two's turns the clouds will have their 'desired' effect, where you see them, at that time?

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All formations seem to have tracks preset.

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Also why do the tracks zig zag so much rather than taking a straight ahead path?

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When an Obj. is obtained, will the formation then attempt to move on tho the next Obj?

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ORIGINAL: GBS

Thanks for the response. I think I'm getting the hang of it now. I still don't understand why the first line in the objective track is red and the others Blue. Is this important?
Also one more thing concerning supply on the map. Why are some of the numbers encased in orange and most of the others blue? This has to mean something and I can't find anything in the manual about it. Thanks again.