Pseudo-historical setup

[JJKettunen]

For your information, I've started to design a pseudo-historical setup for all the purists. Base units are Corps and reserve Corps. Austria's starting positions look like this (I haven't touched naval units yet):

[JJKettunen]

Here's the Serbian side:

[warspite1]

...now if you could mod the counters so that the unit designation appears at an additional zoom in level then we are really talking!! Nice work!

Where is the 4th Serbian Army though?

[JJKettunen]

What 4th Army?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Keke

What 4th Army?

warspite1

According to The World War One Source Book, the Serbian Army contained four armies:

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Uzhitse Army (or Army of the West) in addition to the independent brigades (which I assume are contained in the various Garrison units).

[JJKettunen]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Keke

What 4th Army?

warspite1

According to The World War One Source Book, the Serbian Army contained four armies:

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Uzhitse Army (or Army of the West) in addition to the independent brigades (which I assume are contained in the various Garrison units).

There was no 4th Army. [;)]

Ucize (choose your spelling) is currently represented by a garrison unit. It should be stronger (new unit type), but I'm not that far yet.

[micha1100]

ORIGINAL: Keke

For your information, I've started to design a pseudo-historical setup for all the purists. ...

Will you also do the Russian front?

[JJKettunen]

ORIGINAL: micha1100

ORIGINAL: Keke

For your information, I've started to design a pseudo-historical setup for all the purists. ...

Will you also do the Russian front?

Yes, of course. I will change the starting dates too (although I haven't yet figured out how).

[JJKettunen]

Latest: AH forces facing Russia.

edit: image removed, some errors there.

[fodder]

Whoa, look at all them units.! [X(]

I assume you are raising the base PP to cover the upkeep of all these units.

If so will you be raising the PP of all countries equally?

[JJKettunen]

PPs will be adjusted according to test results. [:)]

[JJKettunen]

Ok, I need to rethink the basic unit level, because with Corps the western front is going to be crammed with several rows of units...

[JJKettunen]

Ok, I think I have a proper unit scale now. Every German land unit here represents 4 divisions (regular or reserve), which basically means 2 Corps per unit.

[JJKettunen]

Ok, after some testing it is obvious that the AI can handle higher scale better. Here one infantry unit is 6 divisions, one garrison is 6 reserve divs:

[Myrddraal]

When playing on highest difficulty level, the AI uses some scripted opening moves for the Germans. Changing the starting setup may cause issues here, as the units you've put in place might have lower movement points or attack points making the scripted moves rather bad. It's easy to disable the scripted AI effects (although it might have other impacts on AI performance). Open up the scenario file (1914.lua) and change the scenario.scriptedAI line to = "default"

scenario.scriptedAI = "default"

Alternatively, you could make sure the units around Liege are the same types as the original, so the AI can still pull off its scripted moves.

[JJKettunen]

Thanks for the info!

[JJKettunen]

It was necessary to add third type of infantry. Currently the categories are:

A: 6 regular divisions
B: 4 regular or 6 reserve divisions
C: 2 regular or 3 reserve divisions

With those it is possible to keep correct strength balance between the fronts, while having enough counters for the less dense ones. As a consequence both AH and Serbia will be significantly weaker.

[Myrddraal]

You could also use counters which start at half strength

[JJKettunen]

ORIGINAL: Myrddraal

You could also use counters which start at half strength

How do you do that? Can the limit be permanent?

[JJKettunen]

ORIGINAL: Keke

ORIGINAL: Myrddraal

You could also use counters which start at half strength

How do you do that? Can the limit be permanent?

I would really like have answers to these two questions please, because it could save a lot of needless work...