OK, I'll sign up. Suggested format: Your name (or nickname): Feltan....if you hadn't figured that out, I am not sure I want to PBEM with you. :niark: with email (optional, you can discuss in the forum): I can PM that once a victim, I mean opponent, comes forward. I'd rather not publish it to the wor...
- Supply units are often not fully appreciated for their true value. - Misunderstood and under appreciated, Supply units trudge around the map looking for friends. - If Mr. Supply unit misses his medications, he will do odd things -- like charge a full stack of enemy units, or try to lay seige to a ...
Well in that case... :) all references to "cant" should be "can't". It's a contraction for "can not". No more nitpicking, I promise! Common Elmo...give him a break! Half the native english speakers make worse errors than that! I think all us english speakers could use some French lessons! I took a ...
I don't think the issue is really "capture." I would say the issue is: "Why does the AI persist sending lone artillery and supply into harms way." In my opinion, a supply wagon or artillery unit SHOULD be captured if runs into a 'real' enemy unit. This is how most captures have occured in my games. ...
I suspect this is what they turn into. https://home.comcast.net/~jfmelnick/fruitcakelady.wmv All that geography and art work must impart a certain wisdom that isn't learned in any school. :) :) :) Regards, Feltan P.S. Some adult content, but nothing vulgar. P.P.S. Note her excellent applied geograph...
[quote="Pocus"] ...Thanks all for your kind words, and, speaking of myself, I appreciate particularly the kudos of veteran software programmer Feltan ] Pocus, You are more than welcome. Unfortunately, in my current role, I spend virtually all my time on budgets, schedules and high level ar...
Did you all tinker with the combat results? First few turns last night of a new campaign, and I noted that combat was less decisive....less bloody. Could be I was just seeing an odd run of probabilites (nothing new to me, in the days of board gaming I must hold the world record for rolling the most ...
PhilThib, You should be confident. You & your team (?) have produced an excellent product. That is not a gratuitous statement. I have been developing software for a very long time. You product has high quality, and has a coherent and well though out design. You are getting kudos from a lot of people...
Yes, this is all the more important...and in addition very realistic...Apart from Washington 1776's december campaign (Trenton & Princeton), there was almost no winter operations in those 18th Century wars... Speaking of suggestions..... You are correct about winter campaigns in the 18th Century. S...
Feltan']Playing British on 1775 Campaign, normal difficulty, V1.01 (with patch). - It is currently January of 1778. I have not run into Washington anywhere. - No French intervention yet. - As compared to playing as the Americans, there are few British supply wagons (the Continentals seemed to have ...
forgot: to be eligible, your unit must be in a region with a level 2 or higher town, unbesieged, in supply. Now you tell us :niark: Actually, this has been spotty. If I absolutely WANT a unit to get replacements, I have found that it is best to move them to a depot an put them in a "passive" postur...
LOL...it's only the beginning pal, trust me :bonk: ...mine is now 11 :dada: hahahaa.... I have an older one too. When Daddy was giving her a computer safety class....i.e., you better never be in a chat room.....I scared the crap out of her when I showed her the power of editing the registry. Right ...
I think the AI is rather good. My only suggestion, as I made in another thread here, is to tweak it so AI forces seek winter quarters sooner. I have this mental picture of AI soldiers with ice on their beards and covered with snow....and the AI general finally says, "You know, we should probably enc...
Cats were never friends to board gamers. My long time (and long suffering) gaming buddy had the same problem. He and I were playing a game of Terrible Swift Sword back in the mid to late 70's that was set up on plywood over his billiard table. We got through two days of game time, and he was preppin...
Playing British on 1775 Campaign, normal difficulty, V1.01 (with patch). - It is currently January of 1778. I have not run into Washington anywhere. - No French intervention yet. - As compared to playing as the Americans, there are few British supply wagons (the Continentals seemed to have a lot mor...
...I always felt that its one shortcoming was reliance on hexes, which subtracted from the fluid "feel" I think the subject demands, and caused some fiddling around with geographic realities. BoA's system of "region" movement and "areas" should be just what Doctor Ho ordered... A hexless game would...
....I've always hoped that someone would undertake to create a computer wargame based on that system, but designers seem to be having the devil's own time "porting" the old paper-and-cardboard games (I have yet to see a good one, and those I am aware of that are in development seem to be encounteri...
...as the Americans, 1775....all the way through. A few comments: 1. Game ran well, the only (minor) glitches were a few messages that showed the link instead of the text. 2. I won rather easily by points (over 1700 more points than the Brits). In the end, the Brits held Quebec, Ft. Detroit and Norf...
....Let us not forget. Even in the heyday of board wargaming, about three of every four games played was solitaire. If you want to sell a lot of computer wargames, you've got to tap into that, like it or not....I, for one, am tickled to see, so far, how well the AI plays in BoA. More, fellas, more,...
Look, people. Let's not start the "I hate this company - well, you're a crybaby" crap. I've had a belly full of that elsewhere (which shall remain nameless, but the initials are "Matrix Games Forums"). Suffice it to say that this company, be it a startup out-of-the-basement operation or a multi-bil...
I have a couple of reference books at home on the topic of unit strength of regiments in the US Revolution. It seems, as was pointed out, that there is a major difference between paper and actual strength. According to my references, Colonial regiments had a paper strength of around 600, and British...
This is something I have NEVER experienced...purchasing this title was so frustrating that if I was not as stubborn as I am, I would have walked away and never looked back. I wanted to purchase... ...The more I think about it, the angrier I become...What is with you people? :tournepas I am sorry th...
Not a bug, as in the software isn't broken, but a sorely missing feature. The game apparently does not disable the screen saver. It needs to. If your screen saver comes up -- like mine did when I eventually had to eat and perform diaper duty to keep the wife at bay -- the game had the same fatal err...
I don't want to speak for these guys, but (since they are probably asleep at this point) I think some of the developers stated that the demo will be put out there, but at a later date.