Some thoughts that you can say are bad ideas!

[Glenn Saunders]

3 I am not sure this exists or not but when setting up wired hexes can you see what ones have been set up already and if not could it be done so you can.

You can only make a MINE hex in the game - not Wire. Wire is an editor feature.

3 I am not sure this exists or not but when setting up wired hexes can you see what ones have been set up already and if not could it be done so you can.

I suppose this is doable but you see, the idea is that as the designer I didn't want the attacking side to just SEE where all the wired bridges are.

Here is a brief history of this feature - it was designed for MG44 which has the smallest map in the series with a rather linear path of advance. Virtually all the bridges are wired and the requirement was to have the bridges not occupied by enemy units - yet blow up in the Allies face.

The Show Wired Bridges feature was added to the editor for the France 40 game because by setting a higher cost to cross streams on minor rivers and then wiring a bunch - but not all the bridges - we could simulate "road damage" in the Ardenne.

But with the size and shape of the map, it was impossible for me to see the wherethe bridges were wired and unwired. So I asked John to give me a way to see them temporarily. My idea was to not even release the feature in the editor because I wanted the bridge distructions to be more or less random. Or - stated another way - I didn't want the germans to be able to plot a way through "the maze and possibly find a perfect path through all the wired Bridges.

John argued that if I found the feature useful for scn design, so would others - and it was no difference than people being able to open and view the setup of the other side in a scn. Some people will do this but most guys just want to play with full FOW.

Being able to view wired bridges is not realistic - the Germans would not know ahead of time whch bridges are wired so it doesn't make sense to give the German player a feature that will allow this info to be used during game play.

Anyway - that is how this "Show Wired Bridges" thing came about in the editor and why we have decided to not make it a game feature.

Glenn