Multiplayer - Sandstorm At The Oasis

[Shards]

I might add a similar trick to what Kresimir used in Cairo and add no-man's land to the rough desert on the sides of the central escarpments to highlight them. The inf will still be able to go there, but it will highlight to the player that it's a closed route.

I don't want to use the inaccessible borders as I'm interested to see if players will use the ability of Infantry to be secure from Tank assault in rough desert

[Shards]

The visibility hit from the sandstorm makes MP games into quite nervy affairs!

[uran21]

The visibility hit from the sandstorm makes MP games into quite nervy affairs!

Especially if anti-tank is owned by opposite player British 2 pdr is no match to those German and Italian beasts.

[Shards]

Indeed! Regretting not taking a recon car as the Germans....

[uran21]

If you want to motivate players to use more tanks give higher Victory Point count for destroying infantry

No deep armoured penetrations for me this time, learned my lesson from Raseiniai.

[Shards]

How are you feeling about the scenario length?

Also, does anyone know if I can test for a player undeploying units, as it's really fscking annoying and I want to punish it

[uran21]

Length is fine but I think going for 5th objective for instant victory is not worth it due to distance and need to have several unit as a group if hex is defended.

For disbanding practice I am not sure what would work but Check Unit Count and Unit Killed/Removed triggers are good candidates to test this.

[Shards]

Sadly, as I can't do a test against a variable in those situations, I don't think it's possible right now.

Might have to totally rethink this to avoid that exploit

[Shards]

Length wise, 20 feels a bit too long for me, we're 10 turns in on both games and it feels like we should be looking to push for a finish from here rather than being half-way through?

The RP per turn feels about right though?

[uran21]

We are already 10 turns into it? Wow, how time passes

Between 12 and 15 would be just fine. Regarding RP I am starving in both games but this all depends on purchase options.

[uran21]

You could make central Flaged locations not to be settlements to prohibit purchase for both sides and award RP boost if player has rised flags on 4 locations to speed up final push.

[Shards]

Yeah, I'm the same, but I know that I'll get enough RP each turn to at least purchase a new Infantry if need be? Losses should have consequences after all

I'm thinking 15 turn is about right, and I'm going to have a look at better ways to add VP than unit destruction given that it's currently easily avoidable!

[Shards]

For the central locations, gameplay wise I agree.... but it felt odd to have an Oasis with no villages

Maybe liberal use of building decorations could solve that?

[uran21]

For the central locations, gameplay wise I agree.... but it felt odd to have an Oasis with no villages

Maybe liberal use of building decorations could solve that?

Decorations would work just fine.

Regarding escarpments, I see edge clearly if area is controled by one faction but if there are boundaries (including neutral) and some units near by it is easy not to notice the edge. Especially in that Rough - Difficult - Desert terrain triangle.

[Shards]

An RP boost for holding a majority of flags is quite a nice idea.

If I drop the unit destruction VP's though, I think I need to find another secondary task for the players. Maybe some secondary VP that give income boosts whilst held (a la The Fork).

[Shards]

I'm going to get this map to a 1.0 definitely though. It *feels* like a good map. I've had both despair and elation in my few games of it so far, often in the same turn!

[Shards]

Updated to 0.5

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mml0ger6y1yp2 ... 5.zip?dl=0

Removed VP from kills
Added bonus VP for holding 4 primary locations
Added capturable supply dumps for extra income
Slightly reduced income to compensate
Added an extra gap through the central ridgeway
Added inaccessible borders around the central ridges.
Added an aux engineer for both sides
Added a fourth random Mine option
Reduced turn limit to 15 turns

[Erik2]

Do you want to restart our battle using 0.5?
I would not mind getting a chance at proper purchasing

[Shards]

Sure.

Just resign the old ones. I've made a couple of new challenges for you

Ta

[uran21]

Amount of bonus VP for holding 4 locations is not stated when question mark clicked.