Same.

Thanks for the extended explanation!

It does sound reasonable to have focused on the Humaita campaign, given the huge variations in troop density and tempo. It sounds like the US Civil War's contrasts between, say, the DC-Richmond theater and the trans-Mississippi theater, except more so. I guess ...

I just wanted to share my impression of the DLC. I quite liked what I have played so far, and hope that the designers go on to cover more 19th century conflicts with this system. This includes some minor spoilers.

So far, I have tried the Paraguay war scenario once as the Coalition, the Pacific war ...

Thanks!

I understand that the firing unit can roll forward to an optimum position, shoot, and roll back. But should not the targeted unit have a brief window of opportunity to return fire to that optimum position before the enemy rolls back, especially if it can be presumed to have some units on overwatch ...

Thanks for the quick answer. To clarify, do both aircraft need to be closing to fire, or could one set up an attack run against a suspected stationary enemy helicopter? There are definitely times when I would have liked to do this, when no specialized AA assets were in position, but I recognize it ...

Playing tutorial #3 I had my Cobras flying a hex away from Hinds in open terrain and sharing the same admittedly wooded hex, but they do not engage. I assume that the Cobra's autocannon, at least, can fire on aerial targets.

Is this WAD? I saw nothing in unit SOP that suggested helicopters won't ...

I am also having difficulty playing the tournament on Steam, v 1.05.

I logged in and saw the game file in my active games. I joined, and saw the Soviet flag and set a password. The game file then disappeared from my active games, and I have not seen it since.

It could be that it's just waiting for ...

I was at first disappointed by the lack of C&C rules, but units' limited maneuverability actually does a pretty good job of forcing the player to come up with an initial plan and stick to it.

Also, it's hard enough to beat the AI as it is!

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>He advised that historically as Gunpowder was becoming the primary weapon of choice, pike were mostly used for keeping the enemy at bay.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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That's my understanding too - but in the game, when one big unit is pitted against another, melee-heavy ...

<t> Okay - I can see the complications if you're trying to do Headquarters in the Saddle.<br/>
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Still, a real-life commander would have far more visual clues as to what is going on than a player in any game, not to mention a staff that can help him figure things out.<br/>
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There is ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It was a trade-off. The new formations protected the shot so they could fight in the open without being run over by enemy pikes or cavalry, and fend off enemy shooters (such as reiters) from the pikes. The trade-off was a partial reduction in frontal close combat power.
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<t> That makes sense - and I'm glad that demonstrating the reasons for change in the formations is a major objective of the game. Right now I'm playing Austria vs France around 1610-20, and there are a lot more varieties of P&S to chose from.<br/>
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But even so, the big deep formations - early ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The game factors combat power by UNIT SIZE, not # of men per se. (You can find a units size in the UNIT xls file spreadsheet) <br/>
A streltsy unit is likely 600 size while an early pike/shot unit is 1600 <br/>
There is a cap for infantry units in how much SIZE of the unit ...

<t> I like this game a lot, but there's one aspect that's been bugging me.<br/>
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I'm playing Poland versus Russia in the late 16th century, where Poland can deploy early pike and shot units. I know this is not the heyday of the formation, but even so, these units - while a decent buy point ...

<t> That's good to know - and I'll try it - but it's not intuitive, easy to remember, or transparent when it's going on. In fact, I'd go as far to say that if you need tricks like that, then that shows up a deficiency in the system. None of this is a criticism of the AI in itself, just of the ...

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I just want to praise the elegance of the strategic system. Despite its simplicity, it does a really good job of modelling the ebb and flow of 17th century warfare - much better than more complicated treatments like EU, I'd say.<br/>
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A key design decision seems to be to allow ...

<t> Thanks for the answers! Misinterpreted orders, if that's what's happening, seems to be taking realism too far. Players shouldn't be trying to guess if a weird move is a feature, or a bug, or the player not grasping a nuance in the TC flagging system.<br/>
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Telling us whose orders a given ...

<t> Thanks for the links. I've read all those threads, and while I sometimes get the results I want, sometimes I don't.<br/>
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I've noted the gold star, but only on the 3D map - and it's easy to overlook a unit that's gone off somewhere else.<br/>
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The problem is I can't tell: have I ...

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I really would like to like this game, with its epic scale and its commitment to realism. I can deal with abstracted graphics. But the command and control is so baffling, and so unpredictable, that I have no way to tell whether things are working as designed or bugged.<br/>
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The ...