I've been away for awhile, but your "adjacent attacks" tournament sounds intriguing. Please count me in. Here's my information:

Name: Charles IV (Samm Dickens)
Chosen Map: Feudal War
Spoils Choice: Flat Rate
Reinforcements Choice: Chained

And thanks for the invite. =D>

Charles IV

Good idea. You need more than one person familiar with the code of the game anyway, and you should be able to find people like me who'll do some work cheap or free (I'm retired and would enjoy the challenge to keep me in the game). And it does sound like our list of promises is getting a little too ...

Kotaro, one of our three ratings is based largely on how well we chat with our fellow players in a game, and that friendly conversation and trash-talking, etc., is a really enjoyable part of the game to me.

In fog-of-war games, I often tell players with whom I am in direct contact information known ...

Thanks, brandoncfi. That's the briefest and most encouraging remark I've gotten.

I'm really having trouble trying to visualize the problem you're suggesting, Nikolai, although I think you're trying to help with this. I realize that restricted movement might not work well on *all* maps and that's why it's offered as an optional choice for games. You need not ever use the option ...

MrBenn, I will do as you suggest from here on out. Comment in the first post AND comment in a new post to create a "paper trail" of comments/modifications/etc. I will be staying with this version of the starmap from here on out. I'll modify it as needed, but no more redesigns from scratch. This is ...

MrBenn, I hope you like the newer version of the map which is taken from listings of the stars within 20 light years of earth. It uses dark gray "jet trails" to identify the paths of travel instead of using territories and borders (which are not realistic in space). The paths of travel are set by ...

I see now Juan. I've just redesigned the map to work with mibi's concerns about it. You are right about the problems with the Galactic map. The color coding was a bit confused, and the font was too thin. You're also right about how I was warping the hexes to kind of flow with the spiral arms of the ...

Juan, Bal'Shamir is a red star system (Class M) about 12.5 light years from the sun (Sol) at about 258 degrees in the Spinward quadrant. The colors of the names tell you the system class and how many mineral worlds the system has. All red (Class M) systems have three mineral worlds. The graphic on ...

Okay, mibi, this versions for you. I hope you at least like it better. C4

Ditocoaf, I kind of figured the "realistic" thing was just a typo from our previous discussions. I just responded to the typo because I had to. Thanks for clarifying that. C4

I think that your plan falls down somewhat if you (say) attack one area from another and move 2 troops in - but the stack next to them with a further 20 - can't then reinforce that territory as well - which should be perfectly possible.

I think the plan falls down with regards to your modelling ...

I agree that the current reinforcement options are all realistic. Which is why I support using your idea as an alternative to chained, adjacent, and unlimited ... which only effect the reinforcement part of a turn.

N00blet and I like your idea as an option... but we think it should be divided up ...

I'm gonna go with "no" on the restriction of movement in any way during the attack phase. Why? That'd change the balance of the game vastly in favor of the guy on top. It frees up way too many armies from defense. The game would be a long, slow slaughter of anyone who didn't get a country right ...

MrBenn, you see that the new map eliminates the bold territory lines AND all the fancy play rules. Now its a simple classical risky-type battlemap. What do you think of this option?

The point however, n00blet, is that in the real world motion, movement, maneuver IS restricted by the limitations of the force, not only in reinforcement but also in attack/invasion. "Adjacent reinforcement" already allows players to limit reinforcement to one force movement of one territory ...

Ditocoaf, I think one consideration is which plan is easier to program. Only the game programmers can tell us that.

Another consideration that I like is that "restricted reinforcement" would actually limit the range of both, attacks and reinforcements, to one territory's distance while allowing an ...

mibi, such non-specific criticism is useless in developing this map to a functional and enjoyable level. If you simply do not like the concept of space combat, you need not even comment on the map. If you like space combat but feel I am somehow approaching this from the wrong perspective altogether ...

Thanks for the support, Ditocoaf, but the idea is to eliminate the massive attack sweep, especially in spoils games where a player can clean a map on a single sweep. This is a fun tactic and one that is central to play in such games, often supplanting any real effort to gain and hold significant ...

I think the idea is good. I have a variant of the idea under the topic "Restricted Reinforcement". People have expressed various concerns which I don't see, and I think if this option or mine is introduced it will be easy to see that these games will have their own unique tactical considerations ...

Concise description:


A new kind of movement/reinforcement
by Charles_IV

I have an idea for movement and reinforcement that I'm told will require a game program tweak. I checked this with lackattack who responded with this comment:

Sounds interesting, Charles. You should post this suggestion ...

I want to thank mibi for your entirely useless criticism. I'll be sure not to send this map to you for a Christmas gift.

Yep, I've eliminated the sizing problem. The background picture, though not as colorful is copyright-free. The other one would have cost $150 bucks from AP. I redid the grid to add more territory cells, some of which are empty and just indicate distance. Please let me know what you think.

Charles_IV

I think I've eliminated the sizing problem with my most recent save, an 800 x 600 map edited into my original post above.

Ch_IV

Thanks very much Oaktown! Great help. I'm having to teach myself how to use vector/layer graphics. Can I get access to that tutorial???

I don't want to do 3d mapping unless I come up with something visually simple. I've seen some very complicated looking maps and don't want to add to the count ...