Micromanaging armies and commanders

[Gandalf Parker]

Sorry about guard thing. Must be a memory of how I WISH it worked.

What about the fire-and-flee? Something about using fast light archers set up front to draw enemy hvy units back thru a gauntlet of your own hvy troops. Force his to run and pile up fatigue instead of yours. That might be where I remember having flanking archers being really effective.

Battle Simulation map available at...
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...ions2/Mini.map
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...ions2/Mini.tga

[ December 01, 2003, 19:11: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Elmo]

Now that my copy of D2 has arrived I'll definitely be checking out your simulator. Thanks Gandalf.

[Taqwus]

And if I were getting basically free troops (Son of Niefel winter wolves, Ermor undead masses, Mictlan slaves, "random event" militia) I might stick them way upfront to soak up the early missiles, spells, and lance attacks.
"Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant!", shout those stuck in front.

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Battle Simulation map available at...
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...ions2/Mini.map
http://www.techno-mage.com/~dominion...ions2/Mini.tga

Can you explain how that works? i try to edit the .map file but since computers are extremely un-cool, it downloads and opens as a text file except it adds a bunch of: (weird square things which don't seem to appear when pasted here)

and also makes it one long line of text. There is no spacing whatsoever when I download it. Could you change that extension to maybe .txt? maybe my computer wont download and do some ecrypting crap.

[ December 02, 2003, 03:16: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually all the map files are that way. Its a unix text file instead of a dos one. The best thing is to open it using WordPad instead of Notepad if you have windows. Resave it as a dos text file if you want to.

As to editing it... You need to get the AllView game from the SunRay site to get the numbers for the units. I just added a couple of armies to 2 provinces but you can add as many armies as you want.

[Argitoth]

Actually, could you talk to me in some messenger? I don't entirely know how to do what you are saying

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I also have IRC if you want to meet me in some channel.

[ December 02, 2003, 03:25: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
As to editing it... You need to get the AllView game from the SunRay site to get the numbers for the units.

Where would that website be?