Feature requests

[Strela]

After see the how make maps and being a dirty mind    if in a near future serie is going to move to desert areas... or at least areas where is possible that dust plays an important role to find enemy (and at same time use it to hide troops and play with enemy mind) i want ask if is planned represent this in engine, i know is not a scale like in Steel Panthers but i think is possible use it... in middle east is not present but is possible see it in PzB???

My idea is that when you move vehicle units dust appear, something like

1-you need vehicles or infantry units that have non on foot movement and are in travel mode.

2-is a parameter that control the chance to appear dust when you move the units, a base value (lets see 20%) that is increased with diferent factors... number of vehicles/soldiers, type of movement... when you move one hex and appear dust all the other movements produce dust for the unit, apart this every new hex increase the chance to create dust.

3-you only can spot dust when is in your unit view range, with this recon units win a lot of value to find enemy possible movements and you dont need risk a lot them because where is dust is enemy.

4-dust is only active a certain time... 1 turn maybe.

5-no dust in soft conditions.

In general i think that wheeled vehicles had a lower chance to create dust outside roads because move slower and tracked vehicles have a bigger chance to create dust out of roads... apart this arty could have here the chance to create dust when attack sand areas.

How do you see it???

Thanks.

Hi Xaver,

Dust spotting is already in game - from the manual;

Dust Spotting

There are parameter data values for each side associated with the Dust Spotting rule.  These values must be nonzero before Dust Spotting can occur in a scenario.  Dust Spotting allows units that have moved outside of the normal visibility limits to be spotted as Unknown units based on a certain probability.  Dust Spotting can only occur during Day turns (this includes Dusk and Dawn turns) and only during turns where the Conditions are Normal.

That said - we have ideas on how to enhance this rule significantly and this will be tweaked before release.

David