CRT Combat Model

[Hans Ronne]

>Thanks, Hans.  Your explanation clarifies things and I should be able to
>proceed.  Do these neighbour-affects require acp?  Ie, is a unit supporting
>another charged for the attack/defense, or is it able to essentially
>attack/defend twice?

No. The effects of terrain, transports, occupants and neighbours are all
passive and do not require acps. They work just like the terrain effects in
Civ. The transport/occupant effects were written with cities and their
defenders in mind. Each protects the other by its mere presence. The
neighbour effect was written in order to allow city walls (friendly units
in the same hex) to protect cities and their defenders. However, you can
use these tables in other ways to. One example is the "Lord of the Rings"
game, where the Ring boosts the attack value of its transport ten-fold.
Doesn't make much of a difference for a hobbit, but a ten-fold enhanced
Sauron is a rather intimidating unit :-).

>Likewise, is a unit that has attacked/defended able to
>support subsequent combat?  It looks like units stacked together can have
>their attack/defend values combined and modified by terrain effects using
>combat model 1, which is basically what I'm looking for. However, there are
>cases where units stacked together may want to attack different hexes and
>this may not be supported by the combat model if the neighbor-affects-attack
>is used. I could use this for defenders only and not attackers, thus giving
>attacking units flexibility.

Not sure what you mean, but the way the code works any attacking unit gets
its attack value boosted by a friendly unit in the same hex, if you coded
the game that way. Does not matter what hex the unit is attacking, or if
different units are attacking different hexes.

> Is it possible to somehow identify all
>attackers in multiple hexes for a combined attack against a defender?

You can select a bunch of units, by shift-clicking or click-dragging, and
click on the unit you want to attack. All of them will then attack the
target, but still one unit at a time. It is not possible to have several
units doing things at exactly the same time in xconq.

Hans

Hans Ronne

hronne@pp.sbbs.se