Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: mdsmall

Hi Bill - I have a number of questions about modifying tech in the game, which I will post in this thread.

To start: is it possible to time-limit when certain tech levels can be reached? For example, it could be interesting to restrict the ability to reach higher levels of Trench Warfare to later years in the war.

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ORIGINAL: mdsmall

Another couple of questions about trench warfare and trench effects:

1) Is it possible to modify the game so that when a unit builds a trench for the first time, it ends the turn at level 1 entrenchment, rather than at the half-way point to the maximum possible (i.e. at 2/4 or 3/6)? (I would like to explore creating incentives to fight over existing trench lines and to make it take more time to build second or third trench lines).

2) Is it possible to add trenches to the list of terrain for movement costs, so that units have to pay an extra MP to enter a trench hex?

3) Is it possible to increase the AP costs of attacking units in trenches from 1 to 2?

(I ask 2 and 3 because I would like to explore reducing the ability of multiple units to converge on attacking a single trench hex and breaking through).

4) is there any chance that the maximum level of entrenchment could be limited by terrain or supply levels?

It has always seemed odd to me that British/Ottoman units entrenched near the Suez Canal or Ottoman/Russian units entrenched in the Caucasus could build level 4 or 5 trenches, in the same ways as British/French/German units can when facing each other on the Western Front.