Slitherine

Schlack wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 1:05 pm Excellent stuff, and just in time too as the base game was a bit played out for me!

I am intrigued by how the mine laying will work and if it will be available as a standard ability (for engies?) or be limited to specific scenarios/circumstances.

sakura006 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:17 pm Just a small but important question. Can I change the player general trait in the future AO campaign? For the Spanish Civil War, I don't see any reasons to take tank general or infantry general trait. But they might be useful in the future campaign, especially in the late war era.

monkspider wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:53 am I would just like to state for the record that I'm not a big fan of that idea. It seems kinda gamey to totally change your character's skillset every year, not to mention, has the potential to make balancing a nightmare if there are super cores with new killer teams coming online every year. I know you can't balance around the exploitative, OP builds, but is that really exploitative in this case if you are basically encouraged to do it? I dunno, maybe it won't be as impactful as I fear but I have concerns.

kondi754 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:50 am Malaga (2nd scn) - I invested a lot of funds in Italian infantry, cavalry (just robbery ), fighters, bombers and tanks
Merida (3rd scn) - all Italian units have disappeared and I have only about 1,000 prestige and 10/32 aux units on the map I have already noticed it's not worth buying expensive aux units

Noticed error in Nationalists AI units, despite the fact that I told them to defend, one of the units continued to attack the bunker on the pass on the road to Malaga

Horseman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 3:59 pm

kondi754 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:50 am Malaga (2nd scn) - I invested a lot of funds in Italian infantry, cavalry (just robbery ), fighters, bombers and tanks
Merida (3rd scn) - all Italian units have disappeared and I have only about 1,000 prestige and 10/32 aux units on the map I have already noticed it's not worth buying expensive aux units

Noticed error in Nationalists AI units, despite the fact that I told them to defend, one of the units continued to attack the bunker on the pass on the road to Malaga

Remember all those times in the core campaign when the AI would attack out of fortifications/non victory hexes? Those guys basically had the defend order! It's more a "guard this place" than stay put. If you want them to hold, use the hold order.

kondi754 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:08 pm

Horseman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 3:59 pm

kondi754 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:50 am Malaga (2nd scn) - I invested a lot of funds in Italian infantry, cavalry (just robbery ), fighters, bombers and tanks
Merida (3rd scn) - all Italian units have disappeared and I have only about 1,000 prestige and 10/32 aux units on the map I have already noticed it's not worth buying expensive aux units

Noticed error in Nationalists AI units, despite the fact that I told them to defend, one of the units continued to attack the bunker on the pass on the road to Malaga

Remember all those times in the core campaign when the AI would attack out of fortifications/non victory hexes? Those guys basically had the defend order! It's more a "guard this place" than stay put. If you want them to hold, use the hold order.

I see, you're right
thanks

Can you share with me information on how you manage Elite Replecement?

kondi754 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:50 am Malaga (2nd scn) - I invested a lot of funds in Italian infantry, cavalry (just robbery ), fighters, bombers and tanks
Merida (3rd scn) - all Italian units have disappeared and I have only about 1,000 prestige and 10/32 aux units on the map I have already noticed it's not worth buying expensive aux units

Noticed error in Nationalists AI units, despite the fact that I told them to defend, one of the units continued to attack the bunker on the pass on the road to Malaga

Moransky wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 5:11 pm I'm playing as Field Marshal with Trophy Hunter and one unit with Envelopment. With the help of this tank at the start of Merida I have 1800 prestige (after reinforcements and changing equipments to 2 units of BT-5, one Trubia, one super powered Soviet unit).

P.S. And at Merida everything will be better because I've got hero with Overwhelming Attack.

kondi754 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:50 am Malaga (2nd scn) - I invested a lot of funds in Italian infantry, cavalry (just robbery ), fighters, bombers and tanks
Merida (3rd scn) - all Italian units have disappeared and I have only about 1,000 prestige and 10/32 aux units on the map I have already noticed it's not worth buying expensive aux units

B. AUX typically is for nations also assigned for your use, such as Italy. These units provide temporary increase to your army strength on any given scenario. A very popular tactic of Spanish Civil War testers is to rely heavily on supporting Italian CTV units to bolster their early scenario fighter air force before swapping over to much more potent and permanent He-112s and Bf-109Bs as they arrive toward the middle of the Spanish Civil War.

6. Don't be shy about using non-standard resources at your disposal
Very frequently in the Axis Operations, you will have access to non-standard assets to bolster your CORE force. One prime example of this takes the form of Italian CTV (Corpo Truppe Volontarie) Auxiliaries in the Spanish Civil War. Unlike the usual lackluster performance of Italians during World War II, your Italian allies are extremely potent and a force to be reckoned with during the Spanish Civil War. The only way to directly control infantry is by purchasing Italian CTV infantry. Italian fighter aircraft are also far superior to the German starting He-51 biplane fighter. A very common tactic among our testers was to use the maximum allotment of auxiliary slots to deploy a host of Italian infantry, fighters, and artillery to supplement their primary Condor Legion forces. The extra cost in prestige to buy auxiliary units is more than offset by the extra firepower you can bring to the battlefield!

and be especially wary of special Nemesis level enemy units that come loaded with Overstrength, multiple hero abilities, and can potentially follow you into future scenarios if they are not destroyed!

Plaid wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:07 pm How bad will be picking green army for these campaigns?
Slow experience growth and prestige abundance hints, that elite replacing everything is intended way to play.

Horseman wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:14 pm It might actually be reasonable.....xp progression is a lot slower so early years the content is balanced around not having high star units.

Snake97644 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:34 pm Will our prestige carry over from DLC to DLC? I believe I had read somewhere that in the PC1 GC you had to hoard prestige in the early years to make it to '44-'45.

Snake97644 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:34 pm Will our prestige carry over from DLC to DLC? I believe I had read somewhere that in the PC1 GC you had to hoard prestige in the early years to make it to '44-'45.