golden delicious
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I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're after, but I have a mechanism in my Poland 39 scenario which means that the Polish player can lose a big chunk of his army without penalty, but suffers a severe penalty once losses go over a certain level (i.e. it's understood you'll lose a lot, but losing everything is bad)
The way this works is that the Polish player starts the game with a number of units in an off-map area (with distance hexes to prevent attacks) which have 1/100 (or something) of an artillery piece that's not used by any of the other units. I used artillery because it has a high AP factor and it's the AP factor which is used for calculating loss penalty. The Polish player also starts with enough equipment in replacements to rapidly fill all these units to full. They also have minimum proficiency, supply, readiness and formation supply level, to prevent the icon numbers getting huge and skewing the rest of the OOB.
In the scenario, these units receiving their new equipment effectively cancels out the loss of equipment of the "real" units on the main map. If you calibrate the amount of added equipment correctly, you can keep the loss penalty at zero up until a certain level of losses, when it will rise normally. In Poland, I additionally gave the player a high loss intolerance, so that losses over the threshold will cause a very high loss penalty.
Hopefully that all makes sense.
N.B. this thread probably belongs on the scenario design forum
< Message edited by golden delicious -- 2/22/2022 9:48:01 AM >
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