game Preferences settings

[Imp]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

About the only setting I regularly change is "Infantry Toughness" which I set at 150%. I find them too fragile at default settings.

Tho I occasionally set "Searching" to 150-200% (for say US forces when dealing with less sophisticated opponents) because of the overwhelming advantage in battlefield surveillance one side has via satellites/high-altitude drones/etc.

Never thought of adjusting search to cover drones GL cameras etc.
Out of interest have you tried playing from the opposing side to get an idea of the advantage. Standard settings a difference of 20 in troop exp makes a notable difference to spotting ability already.

Similar question regarding toughness which side do you find to fragile the low or high exp one?
High exp guys like rangers at 90+ are far harder to hurt than 60 exp troops in my view.
100 exp & the combination of superior spotting, shots etc means they could be Captain Americas sidekicks.

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by Imp

Never thought of adjusting search to cover drones GL cameras etc.
Out of interest have you tried playing from the opposing side to get an idea of the advantage. Standard settings a difference of 20 in troop exp makes a notable difference to spotting ability already.

Similar question regarding toughness which side do you find to fragile the low or high exp one?
High exp guys like rangers at 90+ are far harder to hurt than 60 exp troops in my view.
100 exp & the combination of superior spotting, shots etc means they could be Captain Americas sidekicks.

When making scenarios I normally play them from both sides several times when tweaking so yes I've seen the difference troop quality can make. That's one reason I don't increase the "Search" rating by default for post 2000 US.

As to my opinion on infantry fragility, it's generic, why I make it 150% across the board. Yeah the tough get even tougher, but I very rarely see troops with 100 exp (other then maybe a SEAL team) outside a long campaign so I can easily live with it.

[troopie]

I usually use the default settings, unless I am doing SF units, then I bump the troop quality up by ten or twenty.

troopie