November 1st, 2003, 04:27 AM
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Re: Heavy Infantry, Light Infantry, and Mundane AP Weapons
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Originally posted by Calanor:
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9) Give light units free supplies, or making them consume less;
10) Make HI consume more supplies;
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Why? What exactly would make a soldier in chain mail or some other heavy armour eat more than a guy with little or no armour? Except for somewhat desperate explanations, such as "they expend more energy" or something. A chain mail does not corrode into a heap of junk in one, two or even ten months, so that would not explain the supply cost - not to mention that even if this was the case, you'd use resources and not supplies to cover the repairs.
HI try to avoid travel in their heavy armor. If they always wore it and traveled by foot, yes, they'd need much more food, water, and whatever else soldiers need. Otherwise, they could wear their equipment and use supply-hungry horses for transportation. And over time, the supply line would need to supply heavy troops with more replacement parts than light troops (though this is better abstracted through upkeep than supply, IMO). HI in armor would be unable to scavenge/hunt/live off the land effectively like LI.
But I'm assuming Dominions HI don't wear their gear except in battle, and as such, need other people / carts / horses / wagons to transport their heavy battle gear, while LI are essentially self-sufficient in terms of transportation and gear repair (simple gear, simple repairs, thus no traveling blacksmith support contingent). This support/supply train is much larger per HI unit than LI, and is not modeled at all in Dominions (which assumes the only people eating are the ones that fight). It would be easy to abstract, though, by making supply usage for a given being (like a human) proportional to encumbrance, or perhaps proportional to resource cost... or ideally... proportional to equipment mass, a new and useful equipment statistic.
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15) Add mundane armor piercing weapons (like making pikes AP);
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Although I cannot understand your fascination with pikes,
Looks like SOMEBODY needs to go back and play Master of Magic. Hello, do you think I just pull this stuff out of my ***? 
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