Gamplay changes and other improvements

[sharky0922]

Could Admin make on big sticky thread with changes list?
And put all suggestions there, from different threads?, and wrote beside  - consider/wont be at all/ will be for sure/maybe if have time.

Or something along those lines 

So people wont have to repeat themselves and will know what to expect?

 

 

 

 

1. UNIT BAR -  On right/left/bottom, your choice there should be unit bar. 
Showing you current units available on the field. Divided properly by corps/division/ etc. 

When double clicked upon it would moved you to that particular unit.

Normal rts/strategy stuff.

 

Now this  may be good and bad idea, depends what we  want to accomplish and which way this game is going.

 

Its good idea, cause it helps you to know what exactly units you have atm. Makes checking them quicker. 
If you know that you have Brigade X on resting , and you are busy looking after one part of the front,

you dont need to scroll down to particular point of the map when your unit is placed to check it is it ready?

You just hover to you unit bar and see their status.

 

Bad idea.

It would take bit of difficulty and realism out of the game.
Wasting time on checking your units, its kinda realistic since HQ would have to send msg to brigade with question/order and it would take time

 

So its two way sword.  Option/show hide button would solve this. Which I'm in favour in almost every aspect in every game.

 

2. MINI MAP - I'm sure people already said that.  But here its again. 

 

3. EAGLE EYE effect off - meaning switch off instant knowledge of enemy strength. Option. 

Atm we know exactly how big of a force is facing your unit. For example : you facing Iron Brigade with 1334 trops. 
That's in my opinion too revealing. It should be 1000-1500. Or something along those lines 

But when enemy unit is more in your sight, it should slowly be more and more accurate. Still it cant be accurate until last digit!

 

4. Supply Units (wagons) -  this part of ongoing thread about ammo/supply.

But if it will be implemented , there should be  this extra unit. 

And Inf. that is low on ammo, should go and resupply themselves. Calling for supply unit to move it towards them too.

 

5. Contour Colours Change :

A. Unit Colour Outlines

B. Spider Web 

 

Explanation:

A.  when you select Corp HQ all units under it get green outlines.

Not sure if other people have this problem but I find it hard somtimes to distinguish which units are lit and which not,

Especially when there is couple brigades around each other or passing. And with green background it really hard.

So can we have it changed to other colour? Red? Or something more visible?

 

B. Other idea would be , when HQ is selected there would be white circle around flag of the HQ , and  lines coming out of it to flags of his units.

Animated line would be great. like its constantly moving towards units. Made from  "---...---...---..." I saw it somewhere million times but cant remember now when.

It would be nice visual.

 

6. Elevation Lines Improvement :

A. Every second line with elevation number,

B. Every 100 ft/m line is double thick.

 

A. Sometimes in the heat of the battle is hard to find which is what and you need it to trace line back a bit to know what is higher or what is lower.

It would help if we had elevation written on every line, or every second? 50/100/150. or whatever difference between them is.

B. Every  100 feet , line would be twice as tick as normal one. Would help to estimate how big of ascent or descent, especially on sharp hills, without needing elevation numbers.

 

7. Effective Roads

Units moving faster on roads, losing less condition and so on.

I'm sure somebody already said that.

 

8. Commander Info Description:

I find it very intuitive the way its written in this format.

Would prefer some other font for   "I corps - 2nd Division".than for name.

Maybe bit bigger too? Separation from name?

 I always find myself to reading name first..no idea why, when i'm trying to assign brigades from one corps together .

(especially when they are without HQ)

 

9. Re-assign brigades from one Corps to another on the battlefield

Was thinking the other day playing with two Corps, one had like 8 brigades , and other had 3, nearly depleted.

Would it be good idea? Is historically accurate?

I would like to see it from gamer point of view. Gives you more flexibility. Of course it ahve to be some limitations to that.

Corps change cant be done asap, and unit in new corp wouldnt get as much under new general straight away like under the old one.

If not this maybe another point.

 

10. Units Management Before Another Battle.

With every battle you gain more and more troops.  But can you manage them before battle?

Can we split units? move brigades from corp to corps? With points acquired during previous battle we could resupply/replenish chosen units.

That would be really cool idea. It would add another level of game play

My poor visual attempt for screen in-between battles 

 

11.Splitting units in the battlefield.

Saw somebody already proposed it.

 

 

That's it for now!

I already posted some of those ideas in separated threads. 

If I used somebody else Idea, or very similar. Please let me know.

I will edit this thread and credit you 

 

 

I apologise in advance if some of those features are technically

very hard to do and require a lot of time or impossible to do.

This is just ideas that I like to  see in  this game..or maybe other ?

 

Sorry for my English. Its not my first language. (auto correction working hard hehe) 

 

Now CHARGE!!!!

[Townsendvol]

A very thoughtful post, I am a player just like you but I do appreciate the effort you put into this for the game developers.

[TheRomanRuler]

+1

[David Fair]

sharkey0922,

You asked in your point 9. Re-assign brigades from one Corps to another on the battlefield.

Would it be good idea? Is historically accurate?

It is a great idea. Yes it is historically accurate.

For example, Longstreet was in command of Pickett's Charge on the Union center on July 3. Yet 2/3 of the men in Pickett's Charge were from A.P. Hill's III Corps (including Pickett's Division). All that was required for a brigade to be reassigned was an order from the C-in-C. There are also cases where units were taken by Sr. Officers without the approval of the C-in-C or the Corps Commander such as General Warren taking the first available troops to defend Little Round Top.

[Daergar]

Temporarily attaching corps commanders to a brigade in a "follow me" mode, mitigating some of the micro-management during movement or defensive actions.