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Hello Everyone,

As Frank mentioned, the patch itself (with the manual included, of course) will arrive next week, but in the meantime, you can download the revised manual here:

http://www.slitherine.com/files/Piercin ... _EBOOK.pdf

Thanks for manual! We are really want to see 1.01 patch to start the new PBEM game

Thanks for the manual...much better.

Digging into the combat mechanics a little..what does a Unit's strenght point equal too? Like 2000 troops on avg? How does armor affect that number?

Also, does a attacking armor unit get benefits over a INF unit (or vice versa) in calcs.?

The Victory bar shown, does it reflect the number of victory hexes controlled or all hexes controlled, etc. please expand.

cheers

There's no absolute # of tubes equal to a strength point. Instead I took some divisions, worked out a combat strength based on 1 per 1,000 troops but fudged that for what I thought would feel right for staying power, firepower etc, and set their combat strengths accordingly. Then I set the other divisions and brigades based off my sample.

There's a lot of differences between infantry and armour units.

Armour and infantry units use different combat tables. Armour with 0 combat supply is weaker than infantry with 0 combat supply. But with 3 combat supply armour fires at 200%, whereas infantry fires at 166%. The terrain effects on each type mean armour is superior in clear terrain and infantry is superior in rough (mountain troops and commandos are even better in rough).

Infantry has a much shorter recovery time than armour from disruption.

Armour has a better chance of withdrawing ahead of an enemy attack and almost a 50% better chance of reinforcing a hex before its attacked. In clear terrain attacking armour units have a better chance of pinning an enemy before it can withdraw.

Of course armour units also have a higher movement rate.

The victory bar is the number of victory points accrued, the maximum being the number of points necessary to win a decisive victory.

excellent..theres so much behind the scenes here. WELL DONE!
[:D]

ORIGINAL: tombo

excellent..theres so much behind the scenes here. WELL DONE!
[:D]

+1

I tend to only look at the size number and terrain...guess I got some learning to do.

Hmmmmm...So those size 1 commando units can be in combat...I got them guarding ports[:(]

A huge thanks from me.

ORIGINAL: radic202


A huge thanks from me.

You're welcome!