Battle System

[SerialCereal]

How hard is it to model a one day battle without player intervention?

 

[spitss]

MM had the best combat system.

http://www.magnamundi.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/17/ part 1
http://www.magnamundi.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/18/ part 2
http://www.magnamundi.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/19/ part 3

 

[Richard Dolder]

How hard is it to model a one day battle without player intervention?

Because paradox is only comfortable giving a certain amount of processing power to battles and they are more complex than they probably need to be having turns and stuff.

 

[George LeS]

MM had the best combat system.

http://www.magnamundi.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/17/ part 1
http://www.magnamundi.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/18/ part 2
http://www.magnamundi.com/gameinfo/devdiaries/19/ part 3

Perhaps for land warfare; it was entirely wrong for naval war.

 

[spitss]

Perhaps for land warfare; it was entirely wrong for naval war.

They had a separate system for naval combat.

 

[George LeS]

They had a separate system for naval combat.

Yes. I followed until it was made clear what they were doing. Offhand, the only naval battle I can think of, which it replicated, was the Solomons Campaign.