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Combat Details and the lack of any explanation

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:26 am
by AP59
Look at: https://imageshack. com/a/img194/662/t3g9.jpg

(remove blank between "imageshack." and "com", because the forum software doesn't allow me to post any link)

So we have these before/after Combat Details that for the most part make absolutely no sense to me. Some things are explained in the manual, but a lot things are not.

Dice roll: +2? What is that supposed to mean? Initiative vs Effective Initiative? I have no clue....sigh. What's up with all the dice rolls and all the colors, how does that translate in 4 killed 4 suppressed and why does the opponent have a 1 suppressed with a 42? I know what entrenchment is but what on earth is Entrenchment/2: +2? And how do all these numbers like 2 and 4 translate to the end result of the battle? And what is effective attack? And how should I read Miss: 40, Suppress: 11%, Kill:49%? And the list of questions goes on and on.

So I decide to check the manual which only has an small explanation of about 60 words that is not helping me in any way.

Then I decide to use the forum's search and search for all topics on the Panzer Corps forum that have "combat details" in their title and that gives me zero results.

So I decide to Google for: "Panzer Corps" "Combat Details", which gives me only 31 results that don't help me either.

Needless to say that I'm getting annoyed right now. :evil:

Re: Combat Details and the lack of any explanation

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:50 am
by Resolute

Re: Combat Details and the lack of any explanation

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:39 am
by AP59
Thanks Resolute, that should get me started.

There is no excuse for the developers not to pay more attention to this in the manual, it's a total disrespect for customers like me who bought the complete game, all the DLCs and Afrika Korps, not to mention that it doesn't take more than a day to document the Combat Details a lot better than they've done so far and I haven't even started about the serious lack of good documentation about much of the new advanced settings. Why, why, why???? :shock:

It's rather disappointing and that's the last thing I'm going to say about it. :|

Re: Combat Details and the lack of any explanation

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:09 pm
by Rood
The post on the matrix forum isn't up to date anymore, somehow I cannot log in anymore on that forum so can't update it.

I believe there once was an initiative to make a detailed manual available online but I haven't heard anything from that in a long time.

A whole lot of information is available on this forum (and with a lot of input from the dev's aswell) but it's all over the forum. The FAQ does have most of the links though!

Re: Combat Details and the lack of any explanation

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:49 pm
by VPaulus
Rood wrote:The post on the matrix forum isn't up to date anymore, somehow I cannot log in anymore on that forum so can't update it.
Have you tried to reset the password?

Re: Combat Details and the lack of any explanation

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 9:50 am
by Rood
Sorted, thx.