Animated Battle Maps

[Blood and Thunder Brigade]

I'm wondering how many of you have seen these animated battle maps featured in the YouTube videos of the American Battlefield trust? Could they somehow be incorporated into a game like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlJUuNny9mc&t=1198s

If you haven't seem them then take a gander.

[Hyroda]

thats historical stuff, nothing you should be worried about.

[Blood and Thunder Brigade]

Yeah? And why is that?

[Hyroda]

to show and demonstrate, how a battle looks like.
thats a perspectiv to give you a feeling how organizations behave, act and operate during combat.

"higher ranked officers are skilled,in: (tacticts, comunications between organizations,...and so on)
and they hadn't the ability to look from above or the ability to use a radio for example......"

[Blood and Thunder Brigade]

I should have specified at the beginning of this post that I meant using these animated battle maps to watch the battle unfold rather than the meter. Not that I have any real issue with the meter, but it is a little bland.

[Hyroda]

im realy not sure, what exactly you mean. maybe you could explane it more detailed.

[Blood and Thunder Brigade]

im realy not sure, what exactly you mean. maybe you could explane it more detailed.

Well, when two forces meet to battle it'd cut to an animated battle map (something similar to what is featured in the YouTube video I shared) rather just watching a rather bland and featureless battle meter. I was wondering whether such a thing could be used in a game like this, even if it had no other purpose than aesthetics.

You follow me now?

[grimjaw]

Troubles with my connection this morning prevent me from looking at the video in detail, but what I did see looked like what I've seen on maps like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... n_Map3.jpg

For something that detailed, a layer would have to be added to the game that isn't currently there, a tactical level. That would mean maps drawn for every region in the game, which number in the thousands. But even if you put it in a very simple form where you had only the type of terrain and the forces represented in a more detailed way than presently, it still represents major code changes and content creation (i.e. money or developer saints). I can't even generate interest, at least on this forum, in changes addressing common complaints that I'm developing and offering for free ...

[Blood and Thunder Brigade]

Troubles with my connection this morning prevent me from looking at the video in detail, but what I did see looked like what I've seen on maps like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... n_Map3.jpg

For something that detailed, a layer would have to be added to the game that isn't currently there, a tactical level. That would mean maps drawn for every region in the game, which number in the thousands. But even if you put it in a very simple form where you had only the type of terrain and the forces represented in a more detailed way than presently, it still represents major code changes and content creation (i.e. money or developer saints). I can't even generate interest, at least on this forum, in changes addressing common complaints that I'm developing and offering for free ...

I for one have for sometime now been a believer in your genius

Don't give up, mate

[Blood and Thunder Brigade]

As for the animated battle maps, I was thinking more along the lines of a generic, one size fits all, kinda thing. A purely aesthetic addition to give the game a bit more spit & polish

[Hyroda]

if there shoulld be something to enhance the Combat on CW2(3) wich i will apreciate, there should be something like...

for example:
(before combat, to have a deaper feeling, the abilitys to interact in battle) even if this could be a animated battle-map, or only a display wich shows you the ongoing battle were your decision did have importent effects in gameplay.

would be a complete new CW-game.