game Preferences settings

[Warhero]

I play with mostly so called "Low Carnal Settings" (if I remember right, I found it from Matrix's SPWAW forum, so I tried it with SPWAW at first).

Searching:80% (sometimes 90%)
Hitting:90%
Rout/Rally:100%
Troop Quality:70
Tank Toughness:110%
Inf Toughness:150% (sometimes 140%)

Battle Points & Air sorties vary almost daily...

Warhero

[Warhero]

Oops I forgot this:

Arty Effectiveness:130%

[Aeraaa]

The only change is setting tank toughness to 140%. RPGs have a very high probability of knocking out a tank IMHO.

[DRG]

These responses are good, please keep them coming. I was curious whether ( for example ) people were running one or two of the Player preferences a little "hotter" or "colder" than the default but that so far does not ( generally ) seem to be the case but please keep reporting what your using...all info is valuable.

Thanks

Don

[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.

[Kessu]

Artillery effectiveness 250 - 300%. In my RL-experience a 100 meter kill radius means just that - a 155mm landing within your comfort area will cancel your future appoinments.

[wulfir]

I play with the default settings at 100 for nearly at everything.

I do turn down the graphics delay 5 miliseconds, in order to speed up the shooting and artillery. Don't have to use fast arty anymore. Usually don't play with hexgrid, battle fx, sound fx or AI tank heavy active.

Tend to play larger games on max size maps.

Used to prefer full screen but since switching to windows 10 I had too start using windowed...

[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