Errata

[fatetriarrii]

I am sorry to make an entire post about this, but I just wanted to ask about certain parts of the manual that I have not noticed in the full game, so I wanted to ask you (meaning Slitherine).

In the manual, it says that the amount and overall discipline of your troops will effect your Order Points accumulation. I have not noticed this, and wonder if it is wrong.

[sum1won]

Well, troops with expert drill help with order points.

[IainMcNeil]

I'd need to check the stats to be sure which I cant do till I'm back in the office, but at high levels of drill or for some high level formations I think you get bonuses to order points of your general. At least you did at some point during development though balancing may have resulted in it being removed

[Redpossum]

Yes, each unit with Expert Drill or Master Drill adds +1 to order point recovery. So by the time you have 10-12 units with Expert Drill, the bar just flies back up after every order. Combine that with the fact that the order cost for such units is also (roughly) halved, and you are in Fat City as far as army command.

This is why I include Drill with Swordsman and Feint as my three recommended main skill promotions.

[fatetriarrii]

I see. Very helpful, I hadn't thought drill was that useful myself (I normaly get the higher trained units, like Legionaries, and they cost little to order around ) I might have to try it out some, then.

[Redpossum]

Bro, try it. You'll never go back. Master Drill you do not need, but Expert Drill is wonderful, and I use it on all my Cavalry and melee Infantry units, ASAP.

The other beauty of doing this is that you do not need Quick Thinker on your Leader. So you can use his promotions on something more useful, like Strategist. Strategist gives you a bigger "pool", and the units with Expert Drill make it refill faster, plus they cost literally half as much to order. The net effect is just wonderful.

The missile units I add Drill to more slowly, but I still add it.


Historical Note: Speaking of command & control issues, a roman officer had assigned to him an NCO called a stentor, whose job was to shout out the officer's orders loud enough to be heard over the din of battle. From this we get the english word "stentorian", meaning very loud and carrying, generally used to decribe a voice.

[spedius01]

Ave

I was scrolling through localization.txt, as one does, when I noticed the following:

Row 6,473 in my Excel spreadsheet, almost at the end.

_DS_GRASSTOGGLE, "Show Grass",

The rows above and below both start with IDS, is row 6,473 an error and do we need to alter it?

Any comments, Slitherine?

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo

[fatetriarrii]

Lol, "as one does"? I don't look through it, , but good job anyway. Maybe that just so happens to be where they keep their information on grass graphics

Or maybe grass looks different in japan or wherever... Tora_tora_tora?

Mine looks short and green, how about yours?

Weird, but I dont know...

[pipfromslitherine]

Ave

I was scrolling through localization.txt, as one does, when I noticed the following:

Row 6,473 in my Excel spreadsheet, almost at the end.

_DS_GRASSTOGGLE, "Show Grass",

The rows above and below both start with IDS, is row 6,473 an error and do we need to alter it?

Any comments, Slitherine?

Vale

M. Spedius Corbulo

Just a typo - don't change it though...

[tora_tora_tora]

Or maybe grass looks different in japan or wherever... Tora_tora_tora?

Mine looks short and green, how about yours?

Thank you for your showing interest in Japan's landscape and climate.
And as I've never been to UK or US or Spain, anyway I've never been out of Japan, though Japanese weed is grass on steroid, I suppose.
There are many word to google what Japan's rural area looks like, here are some links.

セイタカアワダチ
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

ススキ
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

雑木林
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

so, if don't do anything to a patch of field, it turns into these situation. In a year or two, weed are rampant there.
And they are really tough, to weed them out is very hard and cumbersome.

weed is in Japanese "雑草" which dictionary says, forb, hogweed, weed
It is not rare weed to grow above human being's height. I mean 2.5m or something like that, especially on riverbanks and riverbed.

土手
http://images.google.com/images?client= ... a=N&tab=wi
河原
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=1 ... tnG=Search

And part of the reason is rainfall. We have 梅雨(rainy season around June, July), typhoon(late August and September, Early October), snow
(December, January, early February) throughout years as months go by.

What Japanese imagine when they hear battlefield is typically somewhere in the open full of weed field,
so a bit different from Legion Arena's wide field with short green grass covered with.

And the best picture (anime movie) which descript what the battle looks like is

映画 クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶアッパレ!戦国大合戦
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 87-2249855
battle sequence is really good depicted.

#and there is region cord, so I suppose you cannot watch one, sorry.

[fatetriarrii]

Wow, thank you for all the info. Looking at the map on my wall, Japan always looks too bumpy for stuff to grow, but I am always wrong in that.

Like I said, I was born in Illinois, which is in what used to be "prairie", or lots of the tall grass you show in those pictures. I am still a kid (14), but I live in North Carolina. Illinois is mostly cultivated (so think nothing but wheat farms from Cairo in the south to Chicago in the north. And I am not kidding, I have driven most that distance) so no "weeds" there, and North Carolina is ALL trees (only one house on my block has grass out front).

I guess your pictures make sense, we got kudzu from you guys (it is grows over lots of stuff here).

PS, did you know your own country (japan) has an official "snowball" sport?

[tora_tora_tora]

Wow, thank you for all the info. Looking at the map on my wall, Japan always looks too bumpy for stuff to grow, but I am always wrong in that.

I suppose you're right. Japan is basically mountainious country. And lots of people live in the small plains. So it' crowded.　
http://www.japanlink.co.jp/ka/chir.htm#Geographical features

Like I said, I was born in Illinois, which is in what used to be "prairie", or lots of the tall grass you show in those pictures.

I've heard about that, there used to be buffalo roaming there in the great prairie.
But this is the matter of perception, not firm facts, though I feel, in Japan, you cannot devastate the land by simply depasturing bulls.
No matter how much bulls graze, with the next rain falls,weed sure to grow again.

I guess your pictures make sense, we got kudzu from you guys (it is grows over lots of stuff here).

I surpirsed as I never heard kudzu which I guess 葛, kind of ivy is popular in U.S.

PS, did you know your own country (japan) has an official "snowball" sport?

I've heard about this. It started in Hokkaido.
Here is their site.
http://www.yukigassen.jp/
This year it's February 25/26.