New Map: World War 1 End of Empires
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@iratoric
Plus here is the color of Soviet Russia when the Revolution occurs:
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I am adding a new change to the map: battleships will no longer be able to be placed in one turn! First you must place a hull in that sea zone before you can place a battleship there. You can only lay down one hull in each sea zone so the United States cannot unhistorically spam battleships (since they only had so many shipyards). Here is a picture of the new hull unit:
It is just the battleship unit with the superstructure removed.I am also considering adding different stages such as hull0, hull1, etc. so that it will take months to build a battleship like it did in real life. I also lowered the cost of the hull and the battleship so that you will spend less money per turn.
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@iratoric I would suggest removing battleships if you think placing battleships in one turn is unacceptable.
Plus I don't really like 2HP units.
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@iratoric My concern is that 2 turn battleship builds will never be built by the AI. It is worth mentioning that the Americans had no need for more battleships by the time they entered and neither British or Germans build any battleships during WW1 (British finished off ships already under construction), so perhaps the AI is correct in not building battleships.
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@schulz @RogerCooper I think battleships were still important to naval warfare during WW1, so I want to keep them. It wasn't until WW2 that they were gradually outclassed by aircraft which could destroy them through dive bombing and torpedo bombing. The reason I thought building them in one turn might be too fast is because a lot of battleships took about a year to build, and I wanted the United States to build infantry rather than just spam ships.
I could make battleships one hit, but that might make them too easy to destroy for being such an important unit. Plus a major advantage of battleships was their extremely thick armor.
I was considering making battleships unable to be built, but still have them as units in the game. That way, you would have to make do with what battleships you had from the start of the game. The only problem with this might be that they would become irreplaceable, and losing one would be incredibly frustrating.
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@iratoric Considering each rounds represent roughly 3 months, building battleship after 2 rounds would be already just as unrealistic as building them in 1 rounds. Preventing nations to build battleship would be much more realistic.
Yes, that's why I would suggest any map maker avoid having 2HP units due to very high irreversible TUV swing issues.
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@schulz I think I will make battleships an unbuildable unit. The time period of the game is from 1917-1918, so the war would be over by the time a new battleship could be built.
I might make the battleships one hit, but I will probably need to add more screening ships (destroyers) so they are not too easy to destroy. This is pretty historical, though, as typically battleships were surrounded by plenty of destroyers protecting them.
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@iratoric you could leave them at 2 hit and lower their combat values when damaged. You could also require a resource to repair a damaged one.
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I am changing battleships to be unbuildable and 1-hit. I thought that this would lead to a lot of battleships being destroyed too quickly, but after a few playthroughs with the AI it seems like I was wrong.
Here is a color scheme I like:
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