German Motorcycles and their Units

DRG · #1 March 10th, 2008, 01:56 PM

I have already added dismountable MC units and formations to this OOB. That's as far as I plan to go with this for this next patch and the code has been altered so that the game will load MC "passengers" in an auto deploy situation or if they are given to the AI to use but right now I have no plans to put them on the AI's picklist.

Once the Patch is released everyone can have a go at telling me how they would have done it differently.

Don

blitzkreig · #2 March 11th, 2008, 05:13 PM

Don

Thanks for your efforts, I look foward to the next patch! Don't be so cynical anyhow! You guys do a great job and you can't worry about pleasing every one all of the time as the saying goes!

Regards

blitzkreig · #3 May 2nd, 2008, 03:51 PM

Just a quick thank you for the work done on the Krad units in the German order of battle in the new patch. They play well and are just what I was hoping for.

thanks guys

Shan · #4 May 3rd, 2008, 07:31 AM

Thanks for pointing that out, blitzkreig - I just downloaded the new patch and was about to re-mod my version of the dismount-capable Kradschuetzen when I read your post - I'm pleased to see that my version has largely been adapted and some other minor corrections have been incorporated in the new German OOB. Great job!

(last night my PC broke down, with all my OOBs and much more important stuff on it and I only got saves of some of my files... I hope the hard-drive is still ok - if not, I'm screwed

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DRG · #5 May 4th, 2008, 01:34 PM

We started to look at the way Bicycle infantry is handled in the game after all the other work had been done but there were code and scenario issues that would have involved extensive testing that would have either delayed the release or forced us to rush testing neither of which we were willing to do so that is a change that will have to wait.

Don

PanzerBob · #6 May 5th, 2008, 01:38 AM

Hope to give the new mod a test under combat soon!

Shan · #7 May 6th, 2008, 06:23 AM

I'm already happy with the new Kradschuetzen model, I never tried the bicycle infantry but I suppose currently they are fast but must be very vulnerable due to having size=2, just like cavalry. If you go the same way as with the motorcycle units and give them bicycle transports, this would do the trick, but concerning their movement rating I wonder if a satisfactory solution can be found - better just leave them as normal infantery but maybe reduced to size=1 and retain the higher movement rating.
For cavalry, I usually use a combination of cavalry transports, loaded with normal infantry just like in the case of my Krad infantry, plus a few permanently-mounted cav scouts, the type of guys who never leave their saddle, not even for eating, peeing or sleeping ;-).