@RogerCooper said:
@KurtGodel7 How are you going to enforce "Sticky Hits"?
I've used AI to make a few tweaks to the engine. The modified version of the engine lives only on my computer. The modified engine allows me to do the following:
Reinterpretation of air combat. The map is divided into air theaters. You assign fighters and bombers to each theater. For example, eastern Germany and the western Soviet Union are part of the Germany vs USSR theater. During the dogfight phase, air units shoot at each other, using their dogfight values. Note that air superiority aircraft, such as fighters, advanced fighters, and jets are excellent during the dogfight phase. Then, you pick targets for your surface attack. Maybe you have German dive bombers strafing a couple Soviet territories, and Soviet dive bombers strafing a German territory or two. During the surface attack phase, the armies getting strafed do not fire back, except for aa guns.
Sticky hits are automatically enforced.
Research system. Each nation has a fixed number of research centers, with each research center generating one tech advance per turn. There is a 40% chance of the tech advance being in its primary focus, a 20% chance of it being its secondary focus, and a 40% chance of it being chosen at random. Each advance causes a dull grey star to be replaced by a bright yellow star. For example, heavy tanks tech starts you out with four dull grey stars. Each advance you get in tanks tech replaces a dull grey star with a bright yellow star. Once you have all four bright yellow stars you unlock heavy tanks.
Advanced Production Centers (APCs). Special units, such as heavy tanks, fleet carriers, jets, or Superfortresses cannot be built with PUs. They can only be produced with APCs. Each APC produces one special unit per turn. However, it takes two turns to produce a Superfortress or flying wing.
Manpower points, or MPs. These are an additional resource type. Imagine a purely hypothetical nation rich in manpower points, but poor in PUs. This nation "China" can have a large infantry force. But it will not have very many non-infantry units due to low PUs. The Soviet Union can have the world's biggest infantry force, as well as plenty of PUs for non-infantry units. Territories produce MPs only for their original owner.
Lend-lease. British and American units are not allowed onto Soviet or Chinese soil. As if to make up for this, the British and American players can build munitions. Munitions are allowed onto Soviet or Chinese soil. Upon the end of the Soviet or Chinese player's turn, they are converted into Soviet or Chinese PUs. If a transport with munitions aboard gets sunk, the munitions are destroyed. If the Axis captures a territory with munitions present, those munitions are immediately converted into PUs for that Axis nation.
