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Feature #14 National Morale, winning or losing

Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:03 pm
by Pocus
[font="]National Morale represents the will to fight of the nation. It is perhaps the most important parameter of your faction. Not only it conditions if you win or lose, but before this occurs it will alters significantly many of the game aspects for you!

Each scenario has a set of objectives: Richmond, Washington but also Vicksburg for example. When you conquer these objectives, your morale will raise, and the enemy's one will fall.

[/font][font="]National Morale directly affects the cohesion of your units which impacts on how fast they move and how well they fight.

[/font][font="]How your economy output assets and currencies.

[/font][font="]How many conscripts will answer the call or how interesting are some Special Faction Options are tied to the Morale Level. Don’t expect to get many volunteers if your morale starts to fall.[/font]
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Last but not least, if your morale fall below a level, or if it goes above a level, you can instantly lose or win the scenario (or the campaign)! These levels can vary in the course of a scenario/Campaign what's more, eg before the 1864 Election, the Union is particularly vulnerable to a morale loss.

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small shot showing Morale and Victory points (with an extended tooltip for whose wanting to know the rule without having to read the manual ;) )

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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:15 am
by rasnell
Hey, Pocus. I'm amazed that you really have had something new to report every day (even with burned-up hardware on your computer).

Just how many days of these are there until the projected release date?

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:55 am
by Pocus
hardware repaired, I'm putting the finishing touches to both BOA 1.10d and a new AACW beta version :)

The 'one feature of the day' threads should continue during the whole december, there is still much to say in fact!

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:32 pm
by jelay14
So, is the Election of 1864 determined by factors other than national morale, or will a Democratic victory become likelier and likelier with each hit to national morale, otherwise being a Republican victory?

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:35 am
by PhilThib
We have not yet added up all the factors that could influence the election, but Morale will definetely be one of them.