Repost Campaign Core Limit

plastictree · #1 July 30th, 2008, 09:14 PM

Hi guys

I had thought that I'd posted this last night, so either I forgot to confirm or else its been moved. If it has been moved, please advise.

Basically I just wanted to know if there is a way to increase the campaign core formation size to a bit over 200.

The problem being, a lot of larger formations work out to be slightly more than 200 units, for example a soviet guards tank regiment (3 tank, 1 BMP and 1 SP artillery battalions) works out to be approximately 205 units or so.

plastictree · #2 July 30th, 2008, 09:17 PM

Also (might as well ask this while I'm here), is there or will there be an option to either increase depth at the expense of width or vice versa.

I'm well aware that there is a hex limit and anything more than that magic number will make the engine go "pffft", and that you can change the map size right up to 200x160 - what I'm asking is will it be possible at any point to have a depth of more than 160 or a width of more than 200, but not both at the same time?

For example (ignore the fact that I'm not working out the math here) I'd like to have the sizes reversed, so that instead of 200x160 it could be 160x200, or 100x260, etc. etc., since I'm a big fan of battles in-depth.

Mobhack · #3 July 31st, 2008, 09:04 AM

Nope - those map sizes are what will remain. The limit is something like 36K total hexes in an array - one of the fundamental C limits due to size of smallint or suchlike. Been 5 odd years since we did that, but that was the structural limit, probably because so much of the code was based on 16 bit integers and bytes.

Cheers
Andy

Mobhack · #4 July 31st, 2008, 09:00 AM

The campaign core limit is 200 maximum. Max units is 1000.

Cheers
Andy

Sniper23 · #5 August 7th, 2008, 11:22 PM

i thought max unit's was 500 andy?

Mobhack · #6 August 8th, 2008, 02:50 AM

I might be thinking of the total units (ie both

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Andy

plastictree · #7 August 8th, 2008, 10:49 AM

Is there a technical reason that the core can't be over 200? Seems a bit strange that you can have more support units than you can have core units.

In any case, I'd be happy with 220 or 225.

Mobhack · #8 August 8th, 2008, 11:12 PM

200 is more than sufficient for a battalion battle-group sized grouping. And having more than that allowed would have you shortly with a brigade of super-troops worth more points than the AI could ever hope to match, most likely unless every battle was then turned into an assault for the human player. It will not be being increased.

Cheers
Andy