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ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

Hand off to Matrix is the end of October to be released in November (ideally)

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ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Playtesting the French Indochina War scenario "Quest to Kem Pass" (13 Nov 1951) against the CSEE Scripted computer opponent with Fog of War on. A simple task of getting the column to Kem Pass while establishing a couple of check points on the way. Can't be that difficult now can it?

3440*1440 wide screen, 2D Normal View with NATO symbols, 3D unit images on Unit list side bar opted to left side. (I had to save this with less data to be able to upload here due to file size so a bit blurry, sorry about that)

"Static All" toolbar option used at the bottom, as I prefer to have all icons in front of me. There's a really nifty toolbar option to group and show these per functionality, too!

A night scenario, so map drawn with night hues. A couple of flares available only, seems the French were not quite prepared for what events are about to take place next...

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ORIGINAL: R_TEAM

mmhh .... nice ....
but one thing is for me "important" ...
native UHD support ... not native FullHD support and on larger screens it relays back on the windows 10 OS scaling api - and with win7 / win 8 you are loost on anything larger as FullHD ....
would be nice to get here an statement if the game run without OS scaling (DPI adjustment) - or simply - it is run on win 7 / win 8 on UHD the same way as on Win 10 then it is native (as older Win10 versions and anything lower [win 7/8/8.1] have not the requiered scaling api)

Regards

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Here is a technique to have a company defend randomly selected fortified hexes around a central point:

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function battle_plan_a (turn, side)

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do local units = _3RD_41ST_INF_BTN_60_B_125
if is_dawn (turn) then
local positions = hexes_fortification (hexes_within (counters_center_hex (units), NODIR, 8))
for i=1, #units do
defend_strong (units[ i], random_pick(positions))
end
end
end

...

end

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counters_center_hex() returns the central point of a collection of units. hexes_within (counters_center_hex ()) roughly describes an area around those units. We use hexes_fortification() to get the list of fortified hexes within that area. (You could instead use hexes_bunker() or hexes_trench() etc.)

If you have set defensive zones in init_constants(), you might instead have something like

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local positions = hexes_fortification (ZONE_D)

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What if the enemy might occupy some of those fortification hexes? You might instead do something like

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local positions = hexes_fortification (hexes_not_occupied (ZONE_D, other_side(side)))

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In any case, you use random_pick() to assign each unit's defensive position randomly from among the different alternatives.

The

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if is_dawn (turn) then

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has the defend orders reassigned only once each day, at dawn. What if you want these reassignments done in the turn just before dawn (while it is still the darkness of night)? You might instead have

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if is_dawn (next_turn (turn)) then

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Loads of exciting possibilities with these techniques.

Happy scripting!