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Destroying a Depot?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:21 pm
by Hobbes
It seems that you can destroy a depot but the town can still have a huge stockpile of supply and ammo. Should it not be possible to destroy these supplies?
Cheers, Chris
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:05 pm
by Nial
*nod* I have wondered the same. Basicly your troops are taking everything they can carry and burning the rest. Doesn't make sense that you would leave anything the enemy can use behind.
Nial
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:58 am
by Pocus
Very good idea. done.
(15 seconds Chris,
)
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:14 pm
by Hobbes
It might be best to just destroy 90% of the supply to bring it in line with non depot towns and also to provide limited supply to troops that wanted to linger for a few turns. It might have been difficult to actually destroy 100% of supply in a city/depot.
(Just to bring your work up to 30 secs)
Cheers, Chris
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:56 pm
by jimwinsor
It might be a nice option to be able to destroy supplies even in towns w/o a depot. Just have the destroy depot button light up whenever just supplies are present.
It would be nice to be able to destroy factory improvements, and money/manpower/war supply capacity in a captured city too. Have the button to an destroy Indian village light up to accomplish this.
I guess I just like blowing things up. Is that wrong?
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:16 pm
by Jacek
C'mon guys! So know cavalry will rip through every basement in town? Checking alleys for some loaves of bread? If they can 75% of all supplies that would be more realistic.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:55 pm
by Nial
Jacek wrote:C'mon guys! So know cavalry will rip through every basement in town? Checking alleys for some loaves of bread? If they can 75% of all supplies that would be more realistic.
*shrugs* Something like Shermans scorched earth policy on his march to the sea? Or the burning of the Shennandoah valley perhaps?
The man eventually given command of this enterprise was Major General Philip H. Sheridan. Originally a commander of infantry, Sheridan had made himself famous by commanding cavalry. It took "Little Phil" a while to destroy Early's forces, but after the battle of Cedar Creek Sheridan had control of the entire Valley. It was then that he began a systematic destruction of the Valley's bounty using a cavalry force of nearly 10,000 men. They burned the Shenandoah Valley from end to end. Hundreds of farms and their crops, cattle, and other foodstuffs were lost to the Confederacy.
Nial