<t> Trying to do a Middle Eastern urban map as per the Grozny method above (specifically: Khorramshahr, 1981) I discovered immediately that modders are going to have to start adding *lots* of new terrain graphics. Fortunately we've got 24 bit pixels to encode them so that's a lot of scope to add new ...

<t> The AB promotional videos have been for the most part both "millenial", and dull as dishwater because they lack appropriate editing. Is this something Matrix orchestrates in return for Beta copies? If it is they need to do a better job. Sorry but hardcore strategy with Twitch style presentation ...

Great stuff, this is the embodiment of my views expressed elsewhere about how AB campaign system should be done. I'd be interested in trying a PBEM campaign like this taking turns to battle the AI in each engagement. Eventually I hope a consensus rule-set can be hashed out.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Sun Tzu wrote: "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
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Which is why the Fulda Gap theatre is so cool; the war never even happened ...

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- I'm fairly indifferent about the position of the fixed terrain info box; tacked onto the mini-map might be OK? Or maybe a status line, ala CMANO. (Why not learn from the best? <E>;)</E> )<br/>
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<t> The chequerboard field and forest terrain of the German theatres does have a disorienting effect at first, with the new sprites. It takes a while to get used to "scanning" visually. You could turn on the alternate map view which is more like the Beta; uglyish but pure.<br/>
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I thought it would be something like that. These were the days of AirLand Battle and the mobile defence, infantry squads with RPGs were old school by that point. It's a very interesting scenario.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I wanted to ask what an Armored Brigade campaign might look like.
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I really do like the idea of something like a hex and counter operational level boardgame design as a generator of AB tactical battles. I believe this should be a different ...

<t> Just had a crack your scenario, as the US, liked it a lot. I was only able to manage a tactical defeat. I moved the M1s forward to the river in the hope of picking off some of the armour spotted by the scouts and Kiowas at likely crossing points. Kiowa positioning is apparently a black art so ...

<t> Just bought AB having been hooked on the old version for a while. Everything is excellent as I expected. There are a couple of interface suggestions that sprung to mind.<br/>
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- an option to pause the game when in fast time mode upon a new message appearing in the message window / or ...

<t> Fortuitously I just found a copy of Tom Clancy's 1994 "Armored Cav" in my local bookshop and I will straight up declare that, for the US "faction" at least, this is Armored Brigade's perfect manual. Although it segues into the Gulf War era it mostly takes you through the basic science, history ...

<t> Thanks. You've been thinking along very similar lines to me, I see. Thin Red Line and Veitikka Studios are really covering similar topics with similar degrees of quality in two different media. It would be interesting to integrate TRL's 1985 Under An Iron Sky as a campaign system for AB, or vice ...