Re: DarthMod Empire v8.0.1 Platinum Feedback (READ FIRST POST)
I've found and put a few hours in a campaign.
CBelli on, continuing from a Hybrid Startpos I made in November where I played Persia and have established a very powerful Persian Empire and a quite powerful Morocco.
I play with Dagestan (Allied with Persia, have given them Egypt, Palestine and Greece as well as Moldavia). I've added a few units to the Dagestani roaster to make them more "Eastern" and less "European" faction.
Hard Campaign/Normal battle.
Synopsis:
- Autoresolve: It seems very realistic in normal circumstances. When you have from x1/2 to x2 of the other side, results are as they should be most of the time, with outliers that make things interesting. Things start getting convulted when you go to rare circumstances. When you attack 700 people with 8000 people, you shouldn't have 2K in losses. However the "normal" circumstances (x1/2 to x2) are so good that I would suggest to Darth to not mess with it. Just send 1500 of your troops to fight those 700 people and you'll be fine.
-BAI defence: To me, it seems excellent. I haven't played since November though, so I may be rusty.
-Siege: I was besieging Peloponesus. For some reason, the battle took place... in a fort, and not in a city. Is that a bug? As far as siege goes I was suprised by how well the BAI defended. It was miracusly good. I doupt if I would be as good in defence as the BAI.
The BAI used simple and effective tactics. Nothing fancy. They had people in the walls till I bombarded the walls where they tried to remove them, got near the breaches to intercept by incoming infantry without getting shot to pieces waiting, nor getting out to be engulfed in a V I made outside the breach (as they did in the past), they sent out their cavalry to attack my infantry as they were in melee with the defenders of the breach and had people from the walls shooting me, when they saw that I wasn't bombing the walls any more.
-CAI: No problems detected. Persia with their huge armies I left them with are streamrolling a formelly huge Austria (which is at war with me too). Russia proves to be more of a challenge for the Persians.
-Diplomacy: No problems detected. I thought that after a terrible beating, I could persuade Austria for an easy peace, but they seem to realize that I have trouble holding the lands I took from them. I have 1 30 unit army on the field and I hold my cities with like 5 militias. Austria would have kicked my butt if I wasn't helped by the Persian forces.
-Technology: I started at 1730, after 120 turns. So most nations are quite rich. HOWEVER, I managed to find an exploit: I buy tech at 2-3K and I sell it for 5-6K.
Actually that's how I keep afloat: I broker technology to cover my expenses.
alhoon is not a member of the
infamous Hoons: a (fictional) nazi-sympathizer KKK clan. Of course, no Hoon would openly admit affiliation to the uninitiated.
"
Angry Uncle Gordon" describes me well.
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Causa Belli submod for Darthmod, headed by Hammeredalways and a ton of other people.
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LtC: Random maps submod for Lands to Conquer (that brings a multitude of random maps and other features).