Slitherine

First of all, thank you custom maps are an excellent step forward.

Just a question:

i see that i am able to start a custom battle without deploying all the unit i have in my order of battle, and i really like it; anyway would it be possible to deploy or manage even the opponent order of battle?

Thus having really different battles on each map; for istance i may opt for a small rearguard action in the Lutzen map, or a meeting engagement on Waterloo map ... and so on.

Thank you

After some test with custom map , i am confident that allowing the player to even deploy AI (or opponent) army will be just having an "sort of" editor with hundreds of different battles; please allow the creator of the custom battle to deploy opponent army, in terms of deploying not all the units in the order of battle.

For example i made a Friedland battle selecting Russians, i deployed half of my units to simulate a "rearguard" action because france had all the units in her order of battle deployed; if i had the opportunity to choose france units i might have edited a smaller battle with more manouevre space.

So, as i said ... custom battle are a big step forward, with another step this might be a "must have" for an easy to grasp napoleonic game.

Adraeth wrote:After some test with custom map , i am confident that allowing the player to even deploy AI (or opponent) army will be just having an "sort of" editor with hundreds of different battles; please allow the creator of the custom battle to deploy opponent army, in terms of deploying not all the units in the order of battle.

For example i made a Friedland battle selecting Russians, i deployed half of my units to simulate a "rearguard" action because france had all the units in her order of battle deployed; if i had the opportunity to choose france units i might have edited a smaller battle with more manouevre space.

So, as i said ... custom battle are a big step forward, with another step this might be a "must have" for an easy to grasp napoleonic game.

Hi Adraeth,

Thank you for the feedback,
We think both ideas are great and we will consider it for future installments.

Thank you for the 1.5 update

Adraeth wrote:Thank you for the 1.5 update

Hi Adraeth,
Thank you!

Just a quick note to let you know that:

i tried a Borodino map with 8 units per side: Russia (me) started far away from the east with 1 artillery, 3 cavalry and 4 infantries; France (very hard AI) started barely in the middle west with 2 artillery, 2 cavalry and 4 infantries. I managed to rout the french cav while holding towns on the east, aynway french infantry held the ground causing heavy casualties to my infantry, however france was unable to use properly all the artillery for i threatened one of the art with 1 cavalry. By now (battle on the 14th turn) i have a small advantage, but not a clear victory.