How do you set your preferences?

[Brummbar]

This is how I set mine.

I play all my game's against the AI at this point but, someday I want to play PBEM. So I am asking this question to get your input on how you play. Do you play the AI one way and a human another?

General Preferences: All turned on except for the Battle FX and Hex Grid which I have turned off.

The hex grid I have just started turning off as I think I can make out the elevation changes better.

Player Preferences: Battle points, Air points and map size vary from game to game. Depend's if it is a big or small battle or campaign.

Artillery I set at 300%

All other's are set at 100%

I am starting to think that I should set the AI at a higher percentage to make it tougher but, I don't want to make it where it isn't any fun.

Like someone else here like's to say...I love this game!

Cheer's

Jimi

[RERomine]

Originally Posted by Brummbar

Artillery I set at 300%

Sounds like a 60mm mortar round might have a 100m blast radius

All of mine are set at 100%. That way I get a good idea on what to expect each time. If I want a more complicated battle, I play people so the tactics change, but what the equipment is capable of doesn't.

[gila]

I keep all at default.
Except for spotting i tend to 120%.
Air sorties i'm totally cunfused on so leave at default,
But only get scout planes every 3rd battle.
Could increasing air sorties give me more chance of air scouts?
Man!.. i love the air scouts when i can get them

[RERomine]

Originally Posted by gila

I keep all at default.
Except for spotting i tend to 120%.
Air sorties i'm totally cunfused on so leave at default,
But only get scout planes every 3rd battle.
Could increasing air sorties give me more chance of air scouts?
Man!.. i love the air scouts when i can get them

Leaving air sorties at default allows the game to determine whether aircraft are available or not. If you increase the value, you should get air sorties, but there are two situations I'm not sure if this applies. The first is with campaigns. I'm not sure if the air sortie preference applies here. The other is in low visibility scenarios. In those conditions, you still may not get them. I'm not sure, but Andy or Don should know.

[PanzerBob]

Originally Posted by gila

I keep all at default.
Except for spotting i tend to 120%.
Air sorties i'm totally cunfused on so leave at default,
But only get scout planes every 3rd battle.
Could increasing air sorties give me more chance of air scouts?
Man!.. i love the air scouts when i can get them

FOR CAMPAIGNS---Increasing the sortie number/rate, IIRC only increases the possible amount of sorties you'd receive when you get airstrikes. The chances of getting airstrikes are based on the country and timeframe you are Campaigning in.

Scout Planes are considered a sortie, so if you get 5 sorties and you buy 3 Scout Planes you'd only have 2 Airstrikes left.

Personally I have no luck with the danged things and they only serve to increase my enemies AAA kill rate.


Bob out

[gila]

Originally Posted by RERomine

Leaving air sorties at default allows the game to determine whether aircraft are available or not. If you increase the value, you should get air sorties, but there are two situations I'm not sure if this applies. The first is with campaigns. I'm not sure if the air sortie preference applies here. The other is in low visibility scenarios. In those conditions, you still may not get them. I'm not sure, but Andy or Don should know.

I thought so, but keep forgeting to change it
Them scout jeeps spot well but don't last long.
Thanks friend for your input

[RERomine]

Originally Posted by PanzerBob

Scout Planes are considered a sortie, so if you get 5 sorties and you buy 3 Scout Planes you'd only have 2 Airstrikes left.

Personally I have no luck with the danged things and they only serve to increase my enemies AAA kill rate.

Bob out

With spotters, you have to start them in more or less a safe zone and move them toward the enemy edge of the board each pass. Usually, you run into AAA on the fringe of their engagement range (not overall range) and can survive. At that point, you use artillery to take out the AAA and start the whole process over again.

They do work better on meeting engagements, delays and defends, however. The AI doesn't take much in the way of SPAA units, so they eventually run out from under the towed AAA umbrella and your spotters can function safely.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by gila

I keep all at default.
Except for spotting i tend to 120%.
Air sorties i'm totally cunfused on so leave at default,
But only get scout planes every 3rd battle.
Could increasing air sorties give me more chance of air scouts?
Man!.. i love the air scouts when i can get them

In a Campaign game the player preferences for air sorties is completely ignored. You get offered the historically generated air only, or in a scripted campaign what the designer programmed for each scenario. So just leave air at XXX in campaigns.

Andy

[RERomine]

Thanks Andy for the information about campaigns. That's what I thought, but wasn't sure.

As for low visibility situations, this is directly out of the online instructions manual:

Note low visibility (less than 40 hexes or so) means that air strikes are unlikely to be allocated, even if set to a positive number in the preferences screen, as visibility is too low at the airfields for flying that day.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by RERomine

Thanks Andy for the information about campaigns. That's what I thought, but wasn't sure.

As for low visibility situations, this is directly out of the online instructions manual:

In campaigns, expect the air allocation to be low to none if vis is low. But the internal code will assign air strikes, then ..

The AI pick also looks at the visibility rating, and if low then it will sometimes pass on an available air strike, even if you (or the campaign allocation routine) gave it some even if it had the points at that pass through the loop to buy the strike.

That applies to battle generator games as well. Those are the ones where your air allocation is used by the AI buy - but even then it might not take your hint as it thinks it is poor air conditions.

In MBT - it will tend to go more for attack helo flights over fixed wing, if poor visibility.

Andy