Long campaign

DRG · #1 August 12th, 2006, 12:21 PM

The game is not designed to play a long campaign spread out across 75 years. Think about that... it's FOUR generations of soldiers. Yes, you CAN do it but that's not the intent of the game. As I recall we say as much in the game guide and recommend short time spans. If you want to try to play 75 year campaigns go right ahead but I'm betting you're the only one who's tried to.

As well, I explained how to change the terrain settings using the view map screen with every battle. You have an huge number of options available to you to change maps

Don

MarkSheppard · #2 August 12th, 2006, 08:06 PM

Seventy five year campaigns! More proof that no matter how much you try in betatesting the game, when you release it into the world, users will find problems, whether or not they exist or not, because they'll do completely unexpected things.

Steph · #3 August 13th, 2006, 01:18 PM

So... The long campaign is here only to play a few years... When why allow upgrading units to newly released models?
In WWII, we can have a fun long campaign with Germany for instance, playing the whole war on several theaters.
I'd like to do the same with MBT, start in Korea, then move to Vietnam, then anywhere else, but keep the same core troops. Of course it's not the same generation, but it could be the same training, standards, etc.
And by the way, when you take loss and repair the unit, you do get new generation.

I'm surprised to see that apparently I'm the only one to try that. Was it so unexpected to play such kind of campaign?

JaM · #4 August 13th, 2006, 01:42 PM

I dont understand why. You can play Korea campaign, then vietnam etc... Just imagine, after 10 battles you will have crew with exp over 100, so after 75 battles it would be ... totally unreal. By the way, you always can buy same composition of troops and manually set exp and names for units...

Steph · #5 August 13th, 2006, 06:26 PM

The point here is to avoid redoing the same composition of troops every time, or manually set things.
Hence my suggestion to "import" an existing core troops to continue with another campaign.
But as I'm the only one interested by this, I'll stop complaining...

JohnHale · #6 August 14th, 2006, 03:23 AM

No, Steph, you're not the only one to play Looooong Campaigns.

I usually start in 1955 or so, and carry on until 2005 - mind you, I only managed 1985 and then WinSPMBT came along....

Steph · #7 August 14th, 2006, 06:12 AM

And when you play such campaigns, what kind of opponent settings would you like?