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Gregor_SSG -> RE: Editor/AI question (10/14/2004 2:35:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Szilard
Thanks, Gregor.
("Matrix" was a brain-burp for SSG.)
In the meantime, is there any existing documentation which would tell me about linkages? (eg is this a concept which exists in KP).
Before he jetted of on his honeymoon, Rob Gjessing wrote some tutorial notes. This is taken from those, and it's probably the best short explanation of linkages. We should be able to publish a full AI tutorial fairly soon, but this excerpt may help now.
Linkage Number: Linkage type allows you to link AI Groups together so that they can perform attacks cooperatively by sharing resources. Any AI groups with a common Linkage Number will be able to share its units. Shared units generally will not race across opposite sides of the battlefield, but rather will only be used if they are within close proximity and range. You can define up to 8 different common Linkage Groups. There is also a setting called “Grab Other Units” which means that any units (regardless of Linkage Number) within range can be grabbed to work cooperatively with this AI group in this Phase.
Linkage Type: Allows you to specify to what degree units that are linked (or have a Grab setting) can work cooperatively. You can specify the Linkage Type as either Combat Link or Artillery Link. Combat Link means that all combat units will work cooperatively if linked via the Link Number, and Artillery Link means that only ART units will be used via the Link Number.
The best way to understand this is to look at the AI for Overlord. the AI groups containing Panzer divisions are allowed to just Grab Other units for their attacks, and their links are Combat Links, meaning that they can co-opt combat units and artillery.
In Overlord, the AI group SS Panzer Group (A), which includes 12th SS Panzer, can Grab Other with a combat link. The AI group Caen Group, which includes 21st Panzer and the crummy collection of Infantry divisions that come on near Caen are not allowed to link with anything.
This means that attacks by 12th SS can include anybody (as they should) while if the Caen group wants to make attacks, they have to do it with their own resources, and can't do it by grabbing 12th SS units, and potentially spoiling their much more important attacks.
To ensure this, SS Panzer Group (A) has its Priority set to First Chosen while Caen Group is set to Normal, meaning that SS Panzer Group (A) will do all its attacks first while Caen Group will wait.
Hope this helps.
Gregor
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