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RE: EP '14 mechanics/balance - Volcano Man - 11-05-2015 (11-05-2015, 07:22 AM)ComradeP Wrote:Quote:No! This is correct. The releases are assigned to them for the other strategies (when they choose a defensive strategy, otherwise they would get a "head start" on the move over the offensive strategies in some places). Historically they were marching into the Ardnennes before the Germans were. I appreciate your evaluations, but don't worry I have it under control. ;) I have no idea what you mean, nor how you came to your original deduction just by looking at it for a few minutes. You are not doing the work any justice with the observation. ;) But to explain: historically the German 1st and 2nd Armies started there attack well before the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th did, and the French started their advance into the Arndennes well BEFORE the Gemans were finished with their concentration of the latter armies. The German 1st and 2nd Army were on the move well before this, but the 3rd, 4th and 5th were delayed, each by a day respectively. Everything did not start moving at the same time. The French start well outside of the Ardnennes, and they are given about a one or two day march so they can evolve their approach in different ways from game to game. The Germans are then released and they both collide. I could just have both the French and Germans spawn into the Ardennes, but, rhetorically, how much fun would that be? I cannot do much with the German start situation, but I want to provide approach options to both sides. All I can say is that I am playing it right now and it has turned out very historical in the Ardennes, as far as where both sides collided with each other. It has been a blast so far. Instead of us wasting all this time speculating, you could just try it out yourself (preferably after the next update). That said, I won't be making major changes to it when the next update comes out because I am extremely satisfied with how it plays out (well, taking in mind the comment below). The caveat here is -- it turns out historical *as long as the French do not use rail movement to blitz into the Ardennes*. This is why there is mention of a house rule here in the notes in the next version. At some point I hope to introduce a rule into the series that has rail capacity vary based on the date, so that it can start at 0 here (or very low) and then build up as the campaign progresses. RE: EP '14 mechanics/balance - Volcano Man - 11-12-2015 Good news, John and I considered the reduction of the fatigue accumulation factor for FWWC, and after some testing and discussion, we think it is justified and is a nice idea. It won't be change to 1, 3, 2, but rather 1.5, 4.5, 3 (the user manual should reflect this). This will help slow the rate of fatigue accumulation, which we feel is more representative of the 1000 man infantry battalions in WWI. It should certainly improve the situation in those cases were fatigue can add up very quickly. Keep in mind though that the fatigue accumulation factor has always been a MAXIMUM amount of fatigue that is gained, the minimum can still always be nil, so it really just compresses the range (average) of fatigue gained to a lower average. So, thanks for the idea. The initial response may often be a knee-jerk "no" or that of concern, but hopefully this proves that we do listen to the community.  [Disclaimer: all that remains is additional testing and then we should be able to get the update out "soon" - should any unforeseen issues arise with it between now and release then we will cut it from the update of course, but so far so good. Just saying.] RE: EP '14 mechanics/balance - BigDuke66 - 11-12-2015 I have to ask, "soon" is within this year? RE: EP '14 mechanics/balance - Volcano Man - 11-12-2015 (11-12-2015, 09:43 AM)BigDuke66 Wrote: I have to ask, "soon" is within this year? Difficult to say exactly, but yes, certainly before the end of the year. RE: EP '14 mechanics/balance - Mr Grumpy - 11-14-2015 Always great to see that suggestions from the community actually make it into the game system, shows that it is always worth voicing your ideas on the forum. 
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