Initial deployment

[TheDoctorKing]

The board game allows a certain amount of flexibility in the initial deployment. So, depending on the war plan chosen, the player will be allowed to deploy French V army with all its constituent elements within one hex of Sedan. However, the computer game just deploys the unit in Sedan. Is there any way to change the deployments in the computer game? Is this a feature that a future patch may include?

Also, how about Italian deployment if they are going to war against France instead of Austria? I noticed that their armies are still all on the Austrian border. Surely they would have had a mobilization option to deploy their forces on the French border. This makes it even less interesting for the CP player to try to get the Italians in the war on their side, since the Italians will spend the first turn of the war moving their troops across northern Italy to someplace where they would be useful.

[calvinus]

The board game allows a certain amount of flexibility in the initial deployment. So, depending on the war plan chosen, the player will be allowed to deploy French V army with all its constituent elements within one hex of Sedan. However, the computer game just deploys the unit in Sedan. Is there any way to change the deployments in the computer game? Is this a feature that a future patch may include?

The deployment change is not possible in the PC game. For this reason, the scenario designer (Bruno de Scorraille) worked out the warplans changing the setup positions in such a way to give a varied set of possibilities.

Also, how about Italian deployment if they are going to war against France instead of Austria? I noticed that their armies are still all on the Austrian border. Surely they would have had a mobilization option to deploy their forces on the French border. This makes it even less interesting for the CP player to try to get the Italians in the war on their side, since the Italians will spend the first turn of the war moving their troops across northern Italy to someplace where they would be useful.

Italy cannot change the setup in such a case, but I assure you this is a well balancing matter! Italy can send 3 armies to French Alps, while France has only two small armies... so the time Italy spends to move her armies towards west is good for France to put more forces to defend her strongholds!