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Hertston -> (10/8/2003 3:31:19 AM)
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[QUOTE=Canuck35] Another part of why I've yet to check for myself is because I bought the game before I've bought a new computer so I have nothing to play it on :)[/quote]
ROFLMAO !! Yup, that's a pretty good reason, I guess :D
[QUOTE=Canuck35]I'm interested as to why quick battles are not suited to this type of game. I think they'd be perfectly suitable. I'm not sure how the distribution of units would occur but why could randomly generated maps not be included? I may be completely off here but it seems to me that if you can randomly generate a map in say, Civ 3, surely it cant be that hard to randomly generate a map for a game like KP?[/QUOTE]
Two issues here. There's no reason why you couldn't do quick battles, I guess. I think my aversion to it is that it would just be such a waste, and you would miss out on an awful lot of what the game is about. The importance of "historical" battles as a factor for enjoying a computer wargame depends pretty much on scale. At the tactical level, it's far less important. Take something like the Squad Battles games, or SP:WaW.. most of the scenarios are "historic", but at that level detail is usually sketchy and to be honest how do you tell, say, one chunk of Vietnamese jungle from another ? At the operational level, though, without the background (and with a scenario essentially no more complicated than "kill more of them than they do you") it just turns into a virtual counter-moving exercise - it would be dull, frankly. Just to add, there's no reason a good scenario shouldn't be hypothetical rather than historical, but to be worth playing it would still need the sort of care in design folks like Rob put in. "Random" just wouldn't work IMHO.
On the map editor, there's probably no reason whatsoever they couldn't code a random generator. But you are (as far as I can recall) the only person who has felt the need for one and with all due respect, it's hard to take your comments too seriously when you havn't even taken the wrapper off yet ;)
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