Ground Combat

[Psitticine]

Sounds like a plan to me!

I haven't gotten to ground combat in 0.99 yet (My transports were all set, but I forgot to check the planet for WPs first - oops! New AI! ) but it was the only thing I wasn't really sold on with 0.56. It's not *bad* but I'd really prefer something less abstract!

It'd be a major selling point to me too, although I've already been sold in this case . . .

[thedalus]

Yep, i want it to :-)

[Cyrien]

I would enjoy optional ground tactical combat.

[wingte]

At least some mechanised ground units with fighter/space support..

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[Klauss]

I think there is a lot of support for a better ground combat system. I just had an interesting discussion with Peter von Kleinsmith a beta tester of Shrapnel, about ground combat. He is also for a challenging ground combat system.

To your idea.
Generally is it good. But dont forget one thing which is really important.

Space ships has strategic movement points. Which each MP they are able to initiate one attack in one system square. For example a cruiser with 3 MPs left can initiate up to 3 tactical combats a 30 tactical turns. All in all 90 turns of tactical combat in only one strategic turn. If in this system ground combat occurs the ground units have to fight 30 turns each time the cruiser attacks.
This means that the number of ground combat depends soleley on the number of attacks space ships conduct at this system during one strategic turn.

This is silly, IMO. The number of ground combat turns should not depend on the number of attacks/MPs an attacking ship has left.

Maybe you can develope a system which solves this problem.

My solution would be to split the movementphase into seperate movement and combat phases. (space and ground)
But this is a really heavy change in the game code.

Another solution would be (P.v. Kleinsmids) to make a subphase a 30 tactical turns (inserted after the movementphase) in which ground combat is conducted.

klaus

[MaxOMan]

I, too, would like to see a more detailed/less abstract ground combat system incorporated (or at least optionally added) to make a great 4X game even better.

I also don't like the fact that multiple transports cannot land troops simultaneously. To me this just doesn't seem right.

[Seawolf]

It is being worked on as we speak


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