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Command Range Question - 3/12/2021 10:14:15 PM   
Rake

 

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Status: offline 		I've posted a similar question on The Blitz CS forum and haven't received a clear answer.

I am playing a scenario with Command Control "On". It is set 1944 and, with the Optional Rule in play, the Germans have a modifier of 0.9. With a normal (50%) command range of 8 for a battalion, this means the modified range should be 7 hexes. However, in this scenario, every German battalion shows a command range of 5 hexes when the Command Range is highlighted (Hot Key "W").

Please understand that all ranges noted in this post refer to the range at which a unit has a 50% chance of maintaining supply through its HQ (Section 8.0 in the manual). Also, these numbers only reference the German side - with FoW, I won't check the Russians until scenario end.

Taking this further, Regimental HQ's have a Command Range of 10 hexes in this scenario. Normal Regimental Range is 15, so the modified range should be 14 hexes. A Division has 20 hex range. Normal range is 30, so the modified range should be 27.

It appears that there is another unseen modifier of approximately 0.75. This would work for all of these ranges if fractions round down. I have looked at the .scn file, but I'm not at all familiar with the numbers. I would assume any adjustment would be found in the pdt file, but again, I'm not familiar with how these work in JTCS. I'm far more familiar with the workings of other JT games, such as ACW and PzC.

I've opened several random scenarios and found that, with the CC optional rule "On" the Command Ranges don't always match what they should be according to the modifiers for each year. This applies to both the Germans and the Russians. With the rule turned off, the ranges are as stated in the manual.

Since I've found nothing further in the manual, my question boils down to this: Is there some way to adjust the 50% Command Range in one of the other files that the game uses?

It doesn't make much of a difference to me, as I know it won't change until the time that EF III comes out... I'm mainly just curious why the numbers don't seem to work as they should (I'm an engineer; numbers should always work out ).

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RE: Command Range Question - 3/13/2021 5:07:02 AM   
Jason Petho


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Status: offline 		The additional differences come in the main.pdt file that handles the overall supply situation for the year for the countries.

in East Front, for example, you'll see the following:

01 44 70
01 45 50

Which means that for German in 1944 you're running at 70% headquarter range while in 1945 you're running at 50% headquarter range.



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RE: Command Range Question - 3/13/2021 12:40:53 PM   
Rake

 

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Status: offline 		Thank you, Jason!

That's exactly the answer I was looking for. I tend to post more "technical" questions at The Blitz because I feel that the more knowledgeable folks are more likely to see it over there; especially as old as this game is. I must not have been clear enough in that post as to what I was asking

As long as I've been playing, I don't know why I hadn't noticed this before. Maybe it's because i've played solely against the computer up to this point. During the pandemic, I've been playing more and becoming bored with the AI. Once my work schedule slows down enough to where I can commit to a regular PBEM schedule, its probably time to start doing so. I'm looking forward to CSEE in 'Nam and ME, but the timeframes and locales of those games don't interest me much... and, EF III is a ways out.

Thanks again

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RE: Command Range Question - 3/13/2021 5:51:10 PM   
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quote:

During the pandemic, I've been playing more and becoming bored with the AI.


You'll appreciate all the work we've been doing on the AI then, starting with Vietnam!

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RE: Command Range Question - 3/13/2021 5:51:47 PM   
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I must not have been clear enough in that post as to what I was asking


Yes, sorry, I was misunderstanding what you meant initially at The Blitz

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