Slitherine

Code Changes



• Fixed a series of bugs with how retreated units behaved. Retreating units will now continue to retreat until they rally.
  
• When an armored vehicle targets an infantry unit the Tactical AI will now select the weapon and ammo that has the most chance to inflict losses on the target. This selection will consider the range to the target as well as the Firepower. If the firer and/or target is moving, the weapon selection may change. In most cases this will result in an armored vehicle choosing to use HE shells, then MG AP.
  
• Map Maker has been adjusted to provide more portability of maps between systems. This will make it easier for users to work on maps on more than one computer without having to have the same directory structure and simplify the process if multiple users are collaborating on a map project.
  
• Map Maker will now insert a map size attribute into Random Battle Templates.
  

Data Changes



• Map size attributes have been added to RB Templates for future use.
  
• A new sand texture by szartur has been added for use in making desert maps.
  
• Updates to the Pz IVE, IVF1, IVF2,IVG, IVH, and IVJ were incorporated. These include making these units decal capable by the scenario designer and the inclusion of multiple commanders so that not all tank commanders are the same.
  
• Fixed a problem where grass was too high in a small area on the map for Their toughest Battle.
  
• Fixed a problem where RR tracks were tipping over when crossed on The Biggest and the Baddest map. This is actually a work around for a problem with how knockdown fences were implemented.
  
• Fixed a problem with how map maker was drawing AI map colors around Telephone lines. Map Maker now only draws selected terrain around the base of one of the telephone poles, rather than along the entire length of the telephone line.
  
• Added several new houses styled in the manner common to the style found in rural Hungary.
  
• Updated and improved models and crews for the 122MM M1938, F-22 M1936, F-22 USV M1939, PaK 38, PaK 39, PaK 40, s10cm K18, the sIG 33, the ZIS-2 and ZIS-3.
  
• Ammo loadouts were updated for almost all ArmouredUnits.
  
• The killpower for some offmap artillery guns was reduced. This will reduce the effectives of artillery strikes against armoured units, resulting in fewer armoured units kills resulting from artillery barrages, but more stunned results.
  
• Models were added and the map updated for the Stalingrad railway station. The Railway Station and the 13th Crossing scenarios were updated.
  
• New units were added for the German PaK 36 and Pak 36 Late, and for the Russian 45mm ATG M-1937 and M-1942. This units have been added as Mobile versions of the above units in the Infantry unit type. Existing scenarios will continue to use the static versions of these units. Scenario designers can choose to use either the stationary version of these units from the Armoured units folder, or the Mobile versions from the Infantry folder. The mobile versions have 'Mobile' after the unit type to make them distinguishable. Random battles will use only the mobile type of these units.
  

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ORIGINAL: Commanderski

Thanks for the update! Will the 8 man squad mod work with this patch or does that have to remade?

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

Sounds good.

As a question: has the random campaign generator been changed at some point so that random campaigns feature more AFV's and less infantry? If there's a way to do so manually, I'd also appreciate it if somebody gave me some pointers as to how to do it, so I can start a new campaign.

And yes, I'm aware I still owe you guys 18 battles in the AAR, the last 1.5 months have been somewhat hectic so I couldn't really find the time for it, but I'll update it soon.

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ORIGINAL: junk2drive

It is inclusive.

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

What do the files in the presets folder apply to, do they also apply to random campaigns or only to battles? If I change the presets for Soviet vs 7th Panzer attack/defend, what will happen? What will the new setting apply to?

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP
Considering the earlier comments that changing defending force composition for random campaigns is not possible at the moment, I guess the presets don't apply to random campaigns.

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

That's good to hear. I guess the initial response was not correct or there was some miscommunication. In your previous post in this thread, you didn't mention the presets and I thought you meant manually creating new battle plans instead of reconfiguring existing ones.

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The preset xml files define certain specific data about a particular outfit you want to model in your random battles

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

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Playing with different presets and a slightly different core is a joy thus far. I'm playing a campaign now where the Soviets get only armour, and fighting against 20-30 tanks early on is a lot of fun.

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

I edited all Soviet vs. 1st Panzer related presets to 100 armour and 0 of everything else.

Enemy armour is much more of a challenge than the swarms of Rifle squads that I used to face with 7th Panzer.

In the current battle, the Soviets have 5 KV-2 M1941's and a bunch of 1930's tanks.