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Old June 11th, 2008, 12:02 PM
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Default Re: Meeting engagements problem

There is code there to make the first 3 battles of a PBEM campaign always meeters for a balanced tournament of 3 battles. I had thought the code for a non-PBEM one was always only the one guaranteed meeter for the first battle, so it seems I will need to check that the PBEM code is not overriding the normal code.

If it's overriding the normal generated LC against the AI - then battles after No. 3 should be random (apart from special battles), as normal.

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I am sorry, I thought this was a single player problem too.
Well, I am sure you guys will figure it out if there is a problem.
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Old June 11th, 2008, 08:58 PM

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I've seen the same thing in a generated campaign, every battle since v4 upgrade is meeting engagement and these are not the first battles of the campaign.

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Default Re: Meeting engagements problem

Meeters are logical - if a campaign starts you have to get to the enemy first

I've had a full range - river assaults, assaults, defends, advances and delays - in my generated BAOR'86 campaign.
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Default Re: Meeting engagements problem

And I have just advanced my Egyptian 1973 campaign to battle no. 4 - on reloading the savegame several times, battle 4 was then offered as meeter (once), delay (twice), defend (one), advance (once) and special battle (one).

It seems that the first 3 battles of a generated campaign are being limited to meeters, same as for the PBEM campaign. I had intended that only battle one should be a guaranteed meeter if a non-PBEM generated LC, but I can live with 3 initial meeting engagements. Past battle 3, the normal randomness ensues.

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I ran a generated Russian Campaign to the fourth battle and was offered a Delay ( three times ) defend ( once ) , assault ( once ) and a special battle (once).

The first three battles were meeters.

The attack helo problem is a separate issue and will be looked into

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Default Re: Meeting engagements problem

As stated before, the campaign I've been running had produced only meeters since v4 upgrade, but clearly this could just be coincidence so I ran tests in that campaign from the end of battle 21 (yes, it's a long campaign!).

I ran the next battle 25 times, which seems a lot but statistically is a small sample with a margin of error.

Results:

Meeter 8 (24%)
Advance 5 (20%)
Assault 2 (8%)
Delay 1 (4%)
Defend 4 (16%)
Special(advance) 2 (8%)
Special (assault) 2 (8%)
Special (delay) 1 (4%)
Special (defend) 0

Clearly there is not a problem per se with meeters, what I and others saw is just coincidence. Meeter appears to be the most probable outcome so it is not surprising that 3 or 4 battles in a row could be of that type, and it is somewhat less probable that the same could happen with the other types. But running the set-up again will ultimately give a different option, so those who don't like meeters have the option to roll again.

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Default Re: Meeting engagements problem

I have re-loaded many times in the generated campaign, after battle 3, you still only get meeting engagements.
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I have re-loaded many times in the generated campaign, after battle 3, you still only get meeting engagements.
And as I noted in post #615131 above I ran a Russian Generated campaign to game four and was offered " a Delay ( three times ) defend ( once ) , assault ( once ) and a special battle (once)." and others have found the same thing so perhaps you could tell me exactly which nation you were playing and which opponents you were playing against and what year etc etc so I can run the same test you are running. Or , better still post this campaign you are having problems with and then everyone can try it ?

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