View Single Post
  #17  
Old November 28th, 2003, 12:56 PM
Arralen's Avatar

Arralen Arralen is offline
Major General
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: 500km from Ulm
Posts: 2,279
Thanks: 9
Thanked 18 Times in 12 Posts
Arralen is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Suggestion: How to beef up light inf

Quote:
Originally posted by Kristoffer O:
quote:
Originally posted by Arralen:
I though about not moving into the same square with units of the same squad,...
Could the game enigne handle this?

A.
Not currently, but it is a good solution. ... I am very fond of the manipular army, but the Dominions engine is not formation friendly.
So there's a chance that it will be implemented in the patch?

Maybe there should be more checks for units:
  • not moving LI in squares where another unit of the same squad already is
  • not moving into squares where some damaging area effect is active (poison, auras)
  • not moving right up to an enemy without having enough AP left to attack him (this could get a bit tricky, though. But even one square would be better than it is now, where my troops regularly line themselves up to be killed in the next combat turn)

Three flies to be squashed with the same piece of code ??

A.

[ November 28, 2003, 10:58: Message edited by: Arralen ]
__________________
As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
Reply With Quote