Waffen SS Bonus Units

Steakenglisch · Post by **Steakenglisch** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:02 pm

I like it so much that you implemented a Bonus System witch awards Player with Waffen SS Units

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Will there be a chance to upgrade them to Waffen SS Inf 43?

By the way i like the changes like the shown "rugged defense" or the shown movement path!!!

Great thing

The New Equipment Screen is great!!! And the look of the german heavy cruiser is really cool!!! This Beta Version seems to be a really big step to the final ... i love this game!!!

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Steakenglisch · Post by **Steakenglisch** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:40 pm

It seems there is a little Bug when Waffen-SS Units are inside a Landingcraf ... have a look on the screen ...

http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z34 ... norway.jpg

its not displayed witch unit is inside the landing craft ... this occurs only with the Waffen-SS Infantry, i upgraded this unit to Waffen-SS Grenadier before deploying ...
all other units inside landing craftsare displayed correct

Hmmm no moving sound for the german heavy cruisers in Norway?

Steakenglisch · Post by **Steakenglisch** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:07 pm

Question:

I ve played Poland Decisive Victory and at the begin of Norway i was rewarded with an Waffen-SS Infantry Unit ...
i played Norway Decisive, 10 Turns left ... no Waffen-SS Unit rewarded ....

so i thought ok maybe i was to slow in Norway ... i restarted Norway ... i got NO Waffen-SS Unit as reward

i tried this 5 Times ... no Bonus Unit...

On what depends the Bonus Unit? Is it random? A dice roll?

Rudankort · Post by **Rudankort** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:48 pm

We wanted all players to enjoy bonus units, so getting them does not requires any special achievements. However, to improve variety when you replay the campaign, they appear randomly, not tied to specific scenarios.

The rules are as follows:
- At the beginning of a battle you have a 33% chance to get bonus unit
- Total number of bonus units in your core cannot exceed 3

parusski · Post by **parusski** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:00 pm

I also want to say the bonus system is sweet. The new beta is great so far.

Steakenglisch · Post by **Steakenglisch** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:01 pm

Rudankort wrote:We wanted all players to enjoy bonus units, so getting them does not requires any special achievements. However, to improve variety when you replay the campaign, they appear randomly, not tied to specific scenarios.

The rules are as follows:
- At the beginning of a battle you have a 33% chance to get bonus unit
- Total number of bonus units in your core cannot exceed 3

Is there from the second map the cahnce to get an Infantry or tank unit or is it limited ...

Map 1 - 5 only Infantry Bonus Units
Map 6 - 10 Infantry or Tank?

By the way this version of the beta is so great ... good job!!!

grabbysnatch · Post by **grabbysnatch** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:19 pm

loving the updates on the latest beta, even though I have not yet obtained any bonus units/Waffen SS. I particularly like when u select a unit in the purchase screen and then hover over another unit it does a comparison of the stats. very useful. The game is now finally moving from great to fantastic, in my opinion.

Rudankort · Post by **Rudankort** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:28 pm

Steakenglisch wrote: Is there from the second map the cahnce to get an Infantry or tank unit or is it limited ...

Map 1 - 5 only Infantry Bonus Units
Map 6 - 10 Infantry or Tank?

The game just makes a list of all units available on the given date, and picks one of them randomly. I don't remember exactly how the dates are set, but believe that there are both SS infy and tanks from the very beginning, and so there is a certain chance to get both.

Steakenglisch wrote: By the way this version of the beta is so great ... good job!!!

Thanks.

Panzer3L · Post by **Panzer3L** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:03 pm

Rudankort wrote:We wanted all players to enjoy bonus units, so getting them does not requires any special achievements. However, to improve variety when you replay the campaign, they appear randomly, not tied to specific scenarios.

Great feature,i loved the prototypes in PG2...

Some quetsions though.

1.
Are bonus units "hardcoded" or can they be specified in the efile?
I suppose the waffen ss units can be made purchasable thru modification of the efile but can they also be removed
from the list of units the game chooses from when awarding a bonusunit?
Can other units than waffen ss be flaged as bonus units in the efile?
For example if one is making a custom waffen ss campaign it would be not so much of a bonus to get another waffen ss infantry.
Or if someone is making a historic Afrikakorps campaign,waffen ss units in the core would be kinda unwanted ...
So it would be awsome if the scenario creator can select if and which type of units can show up as bonus units in his scenario/campaign.

2.
If u upgrade/downgrade a bonus waffen ss infantry to say a normal pioneer unit does the game count this unit still as bonus
unit?

3.
What are the bonus units for other countries if u r playing an allied campaign?

Steakenglisch · Post by **Steakenglisch** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:21 pm

Yeah since Sealion40 ... 3 Waffen SS Units are in my core, 2 Tanks 1 Grenadiere

The Medals and the Heroes are a really great invention!!! At first i didnt like the Scenarios with a limited deploy, but now i like it much ... it make it interesting ... to try different strategies with different Units .-)

parusski · Post by **parusski** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:17 pm

And today one of my fighter units was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class. One thing I am not sure of is did I also receive an increase in prestige for that unit? I think I did.

pstamatis · Post by **pstamatis** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:04 pm

speaking of bonus units, should these units be more...experienced?
From the moment you get an elite unit, should it have a proportional XP regarding the scenario tree? For example, I got a waffen SS infantry with no XP on the last scenario (Berlin). Besides the fact that it was useless, an elite unit in the end of war should have at least 3 stars of XP.

Steakenglisch · Post by **Steakenglisch** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:58 am

Yeah that is a good point with the Exp, especially the differences between the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht Units are very small, if i am right its one ponit Bonus in Attack and one point malus in defense and of course the cool camo