Crazy Europe: House of Habsburg

[Raville]

@CrazyG @Hepps Congratulations! Map looks really fantastic! A question: Why main Capitol Cities don't have a territory value in them? (Rome, Madrid, London, Ghant, Paris, Vienne, Milan, Istanbul, Moscow, etc.) or it's a part of the game or a special condition that I couldn't find in notes? Thanks for your great job.

[redrum]

@raville They have a value in black text just for some reason don't have the fancy image.

[Raville]

@redrum Now I have seen those numbers but are so small or sometimes covered by a unit that thought didn't exist. Also thank you for the map and game.

[Hepps]

@raville The re-release included higher PU values that were never included in the original PU markers folder. I am creating new images for the values we never had before.

[Hepps]

More fixes...

Missing Connections...

SZ 103 <-----> SZ 97
Ukraine 35 <----> Belorussia 21
Ukraine 35 <----> Ukraine 33

Wrong Connections... (needing to be removed)

Turkey 01 <----> Bulgaria 05

[wc_sumpton]

@CrazyG
I think to have the 'Neutral' receive the castle bonus you have to put 'Neutral' in with the list of players.

Cheers...

[redrum]

PR to fix battle calc HP display to not include infra units: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/pull/3364

[Cernel]

@redrum I think this is a good change, as the generic "HP" should just tell the normal ones, but I want to point out that infrastructure hitpoints, also them having more than 1 each, is not pointless, as they can still be hit by AA attacks (I'm actually making a map in which there are 2 hitpoints infrastructures that can be hit by AA attacks).

For example, in the case of this map, you could have cannons that are infrastructures but are also able to AA attack each other (each cannon has AA attacks against enemy cannons), representing counter-battery fire and artillery dominance (it works fine, and it would be fairly realistic).

[Hepps]

@crazyg Can't wait for more of the up dates to your creation. the game has transformed a great deal already from the original release.

Keep up the great work.

[CrazyG]

I pushed an update yesterday that had those extra connections removed, as well as the couple of image updates I forgot. However the download isn't working, I can't figure out why. I'll investigate more after work today.

Next steps are balancing suggestions. I will also update the PU place file at some point.

[Cernel]

@crazyg If, by unable to download, you maybe mean that you didn't see the percentage progress on download, that is just a thing that happens for newly updated or uploaded maps (a GitHub related limit).
It is not stuck: it still downloads, you just don't get the progress info, and have simply to wait till it's done.
It worked for me.

Capturable emplacements (pillboxes, castles...), capturable artillery and a very simple upkeep system are all things I always suggested / promoted, so it is sweet to see so many dynamics I like in a map (tho I've not played it yet).

[Hepps]

@crazyg Looks good CG.

I will continue to look for connections as soon as I have the chance.

The preview picture in the Download screen might be a little over kill.

[CrazyG]

@cernel
Please do give some feedback on the maintenance system. I expect it needs fine tuning

[Cernel]

@crazyg I'm in the lobby atm, but there are 13 people in total. Duno if you have time to play now.

[General_Zod]

@general_zod said in Crazy Europe: House of Habsburg:

Just a side note the map looks great zoomed in. But for those who like to play zoomed out further. I suggest checking "show map blends" in addition to "show map details". This setting will give cleaner looking borders from a zoomed out perspective, imo.

Just a reminder regarding zoomed out map image 70% or further. Try changing the settings" view->draw map border on top->low" versus medium or high. This gives a crisper border.

Example 70% with medium.

Example 70% with low.

[CrazyG]

I like that setting Zod.
Have you played more games/ have any feedback?

Just an update for everyone, technology is being added to this map. I think its going to help shake things up

[General_Zod]

@crazyg

Nope, I had no luck getting a game going this past weekend.

[CrazyG]

Here is a sneak peak of a very delayed update. I found some missing connections, and I'm adding technologies to the map. These should help speed the game up (especially March). See below

March~ pikemen and muskets have 2 movement in the noncombat move phase only
Horseshoes~ knights have 3 movement in NC only
Horsedrawn Artillery~ artillery have 2 movement in NC only

AccurateCannons~ cannons have +1 attack
HeavyCannons~ cannons roll 3 dice but have -1 attack
Hussars~ knights have +1 attack

Sailing~ navies get +1 movement in NC only
Naval Cannons~ Navies have +1 attack
Ship of the Line~ Navies have +1 defense

Quick question in case anyone else has tried this, what is the easiest way to give units +1 movement only in the noncombat move phase in a way that can be activated by tech?

[wc_sumpton]

@crazyg
In Invasion USA, the Air units do something like this. Basically the movement for each unit has to be set prior to each combatMovement:

<attachment name="triggerAttachmentEasternHumanBomber4CM" attachTo="Western" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player">
     <option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentEasternHumanPlayer"/>
     <option name="unitType" value="bomber"/>
     <option name="unitAttachmentName" value="UnitAttachment" count="unitAttachment"/>
     <option name="unitProperty" value="movement" count="4"/>
     <option name="when" value="before:westernCombatMove"/>
     <option name="when" value="before:easternCombatMove"/>
     <option name="when" value="before:southernCombatMove"/>
     <option name="when" value="before:northernCombatMove"/>
     <option name="when" value="before:americanCombatMove"/>
</attachment>

You can add different units to the trigger as long as all unit have the same movement setting.

Then you would use the same type of trigger to set the non-combat movement of those unit if the condition for that player is true. I would use a switch type condition which would be set by a tech by the player.

I hope this is helpful.

Cheers...

[CrazyG]

@wc_sumpton
I tried this way, but it doesn't seem to work for land units (it does work for air). If changing the movement of land units, it just doesn't change the movement. I found a way to do it by having the units give themselves bonus movement

  <option name="givesMovement" value="1:Pikemen"/>