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Some pretty interesting results:

Most popular tweak: "soldiers on 'guard commander' fire missile weapons if enemies are within range"

Most popular small feature to add: "battle results when storming a castle"

Check out the poll, make your voice be heard http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hehe...and guess what, most popular in the 'balance Category' : Improve strategical AI. What a surprise. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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My most desired feature isn't on the list: make the tactical AI much better at avoiding accidentally shooting own units.

Nice poll, though.

PvK

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">PvK you've forgot about your loved realism. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif
Just think.......200 heavy infantry on the frontline.....you are giving an order for the archers to fire on sight..the enemy is closing in...the archers still have the order to fire on sight..they cannot shoot at the enemy only, if the armies are so close to eachother..there will be friendly casualties for sure...

You know I tell you what......the best would be, if we could change the orders while the battle is going....but than the battles would be in 'real time'...IE. not replay http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ November 01, 2003, 22:43: Message edited by: -Storm- ]

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I'm not forgetting realism. Real archers would only fire at enemy formations, and not right into the battle line. Without a clear enemy target, they wouldn't just pepper the whole melee with arrows!

PvK

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">They might try to fire into the enemy's rear ranks, though (aiming far enough from the battle line to not shoot their own allies in the back).

Which, annoyingly, archers can't do in Dom II. Is "fire rear" really that difficult? It would be especially useful for Light Cav if they used the same "move straight forward first" logic as "attack rear".

Maybe IW just doesn't want fire rear because it would be too much like fire mages or fire commanders. But it's easy to counter fire rear (and attack rear, for that matter) by having a tough, well-armored rear guard, or strong troops on your flanks. (I never thought fire mages or fire commanders was all that powerful anyway - commanders usually have armor, and mages can usually cast personal protective spells of some kind.)

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They should just fire so that their scatter won't include friendly troops, or almost no friendly troops compared to the number of enemy troops.

PvK

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*bump*

because this is still getting votes, and voting doesn't bump it.

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another bump... seen a few new people around...

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just voted. Happy to see that bodyguards ought to recall how they should use a javelin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif