First Post: Introduction and Request For Help Getting Up To Speed

[markmayhugh]

OK, I need to run some longer battles where encumbrance/fatigue is an issue to see how the archer situation improves. Problem is, once I get in melee range, the battles rarely last very many rounds.

Is there a way in a single player vs AI game to save a checkpoint that I can go back to? (I realize this would be gross cheating with other real players involved.)

I want to try out a lot of things as quickly as possible, and this would be much easier if I could try something, then go back to an earlier position to try something else.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by markmayhugh

Is there a way in a single player vs AI game to save a checkpoint that I can go back to? (I realize this would be gross cheating with other real players involved.)

There are a number of options.
If you are Windows then I have created a simple desktop icon that you can click to make backup copies of all your games at once.

And I have a BattleSim map where you can edit the ascii file to place units in provinces next to each other, set their formations and scripts, then have them attack. To reset them back just start a new game with the same BattleSim map. To try different units just edit the .map file to change the starter units then start a new game with that map.

Both can be found here...
http://www.dom3minions.com/utilities.htm

There are other backup and restore schemes done with more features and various programming languages. Such as this one in Python.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com//showthread.php?t=31522