Re: Impromptu Games

Guest Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:33 pm

Anybody available for today?

Uncle Billy Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:44 pm

I can play at the usual time, 15:00 EST, 20:00 BST.

Mr. Digby Fri Oct 28, 2016 4:03 pm

I'll try and be there. Again would prefer a brigade rather than a division. Still not feeling 100% (or even 79%).

Guest Sat Oct 29, 2016 2:03 pm

Anybody for a game today?

Uncle Billy Sat Oct 29, 2016 2:57 pm

I can play at the usual time today, 15:00 EST, 20:00 BST. Anymore milkmaids need rescuing?

Guest Sat Oct 29, 2016 2:59 pm

You mean you are not making a scenario? LOL

I do have a 2v2 PvP.

Miko77 Sat Oct 29, 2016 3:09 pm

I can play at the usual time today, 15:00 EST, 20:00 BST. Anymore milkmaids need rescuing?

Definitely joining today, I've been missing "with the plan like this, how can we possibly fail?"

Uncle Billy Sat Oct 29, 2016 3:34 pm

I have a 2v2 also, but no milkmaids are involved.

Miko77 Sat Oct 29, 2016 3:45 pm

I have a 2v2 also, but no milkmaids are involved.

no worries - just make sure the Old Guard is there to make Phil happy Smile

Miko77 Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:18 pm

Three confirmed for today.
Due to time change in Europe, we meet at 19.00 ~~BST~~ GMT.
For some reason I thought that BST means "British Standard Time" and thus time in UK is constantly BST - which was wrong.
In order to use one acronym all year round check this simple chart: http://www.timetemperature.com/europe/united_kingdom_time_zone.shtml
WET - Western European Time - UK, Ireland, Portugal
CET - Central European Time - most of the Europe
EET - Eastern European Time - Andrew Smile

MSK - Moscow and I suppose most of the European part of Russia

Guest Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:20 pm

Which 3 are they?

Do I make #4?

Miko77 Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:26 pm

Which 3 are they?

Me, Phil, Andrew

Do I make #4?

yes

And I think Kevin is joining too, so 5 is very likely...

Uncle Billy Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:57 pm

Yes, I can play today, 15:00 EST, 19:00 GMT.

Guest Sun Oct 30, 2016 5:12 pm

CaptainAndrew Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:38 am

Uncle Billy Mon Oct 31, 2016 2:34 pm

I can play today at the new normal time, 15:00 EST, 19:00 GMT. I've put together a 2V2 scenario using the PCL1 map.

Guest Mon Oct 31, 2016 2:46 pm

We should not play again Kevin, we should quit while we are ahead. affraid

I should make today too.

Miko77 Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:56 pm

We should not play again Kevin, we should quit while we are ahead.

Just a wee remark gentlemen - I did totally waste my division in yesterday battle, but I don't think you were anywhere near the objective Smile

Very likely that "ze empreror's hat" was stolen/hidden by the third party Smile

or are you content with his majesty soiled linen? lol!

Guest Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:59 pm

SHEESH Miko I saw Napoleon go get his hat all by himself while we kept you heathern Austrians all tied up with our superior tactics.

Guest Mon Oct 31, 2016 5:02 pm

Phil says he can't make it today.

Uncle Billy Mon Oct 31, 2016 5:39 pm

I'm afraid that no one made it to the town and recovered the Emperor's hat. I fear that the goats ended up eating it. This is bleak news for the French Empire as Nappy is in a deep funk. Meanwhile von Kienmayer's failure has resulted in being posted to a shore battery along the Adriatic. Failure has consequences, gentlemen. pale

Miko77 Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:07 pm

Phil says he can't make it today.

I guess he's wandering about with hollow pumpkin on his head and shouting "trick or treat!"

Miko77 Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:23 am

So, interesting battles we had on Sunday and Monday.
I'll comment on yesterday's battle as it was my scenario. So, I've noticed that IF sandbox parameter is set to other value than zero, then all individual units locations are ignored. Commander position and facing is taken into account and whole division is spread in line Sad

. You can imagine my frustration when we started scenario and I saw our divisions deployed in lines after maybe not spending hours but putting an effort to deploy brigades nicely on roads/column formations etc...

Today morning before going to work I tested scenario with sandbox=0 and... AI was amazing - moved all divisions... so I think I'll be using sandbox=0 only now... if behaviour depends on commander features then I'd like to explore those and just appoint/tweak the correct commander instead of changing sandbox parameter.

Mr. Digby Tue Nov 01, 2016 11:00 am

AI=0 is hunt them down mode. This can lead to some rather silly battles as the AI could send its divisions off to random corners of the map. AI=1 or 2 is the attack/defend mode which is needed if you have an objective. Problem with those two modes is, as you have found out, default division line formation is always used.

We just have to work within the limitations NSD have set down.

I recommend always test a scenario in MP with only you playing as well Wink

Miko77 Tue Nov 01, 2016 12:52 pm

Hi Martin. Good to see you. How are you? Joining some battles anytime soon?

Have I posted on here by mistake again? If so, could you move this discussion to AAR thread, please?

AI=0 is hunt them down mode. This can lead to some rather silly battles as the AI could send its divisions off to random corners of the map.

I see... however Attack/Defend doesn't seem to work perfectly either and initial deployment was quite important in my scenario.

We just have to work within the limitations NSD have set down.

I suppose, it's not the first time, nor last time I've been disappointed by the limitations Sad

I recommend always test a scenario in MP with only you playing as well

that's what I've done this morning - I've hosted game with only me in it and observed what AI was doing - and it behaved much better than on Attack mode.

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