Engine and Content Update - March 2018
With this month's release (Malaya 1941) we also added a few engine improvements, as follows:
*** IMPROVEMENTS ***
- (Battle) At the end of a Land or Sea Battle, the defender always loses if its only non-panicked units remaining on board are Air units while the attacker still has Land or Sea units.
- (Board) Added visual effect for situations where a unit stack is destroyed by a card.
- (Board) Unit stack now always have the color of the unit that it is displayed on top of it
- (Dogfight) FIxed message displayed at the end of a dogfight when no unit was hit, the previous one was confusing
- (Entrenchment) The entrenchment level of a stack is now indicated on the stack by repeating the entrechment icon (3 icons for High level, 2 for Medium and 1 for Low)
- (Helicopters) Helicopter units now stay in their current region, unless they are ordered to go back to their base or previous region after their current mission. This order is done using a new button that appears in the Stack Viewer when helicopters are selected. However, helicopters cannot stay in ennemy or sea regions.
- (Leaders) A leader that replaces another one killed in battle now arrives in the structure contained in the capital region, if it exists. Otherwise, it arrives in the region itself.
- (Reinforcements) Reinforcements triggered by cards can no longer be delayed by another card.
*** FIXES ***
- (Aerial back movement) Fixed bug where the game would be stuck in this phase due to helicopters not being able to get back to their base.
- (Aerial Defense Movement) Fixed bug that allowed to drop units in regions were they were not allowed to go during this phase.
- (Battle) Fixed bug where the game was stuck in the battle in some cases where panics had to be inflicted but no opponent could panic.
- (Cards) Fixed bug where a unit destroyed by a card effect would not actually be killed and stay on board (e.g. "Surface to Air Defense" in Mali 2012)
- (Cards) Fixed bug where cards designed to teleport units could not teleport units belonging to opponents of the card's owner
- (Cards) Fixed bug where cards designed to ignore the effect of the terrain on battle's stats had no effect
- (Entrenchment) Fixed bug where entrenchment level was not correctly read from scenario data
- (Movement) Moving into a region that contains enemy units located into a not-fortified structure no longer destroys these units. Instead, they automatically move out of the structure to fight if they can.
- (Movement) Fixed bug where units located in a structure and unable to move could be automatically added to battles.
- (Movement - Battle) Fixed bug where hidden units stayed hidden during battle while they don't have this capacity
- (Options) Fixed AI level option in main Menu and in-game menu : pressing the « Cancel » button would not cancel a modification of this level
- (Siege) Fixed bug where hidden units could besiege a structure (this is not allowed by the game rules)
- (Siege) Fixed terrain effect on sieges surrender value, defender's morale in battle and combat factor during pursuits
- (Six Days) Fixed bug where Arab planes destroyed by « Focus Operation » card would still be considered destroyed in subsequent Purchase phases.
- (Stack Viewer) Fixed some tooltips for action buttons.
*** SCENARIOS ***
- (Changes) Changed some entrenchment levels to work with new Entrenchment code in Berlin1945, Bulge1944, Normandy1944, Estonia1918, Finland1918, Tannenberg1914, Saratoga1777
- (AI): Allied/UN AI improved in Normandy1944, Korea1950
- (Game Balance): changed VP threshold for score victory in Expanded Scenarios.
Thanks for your continued support, and enjoy ːsteamhappyː
*** IMPROVEMENTS ***
- (Battle) At the end of a Land or Sea Battle, the defender always loses if its only non-panicked units remaining on board are Air units while the attacker still has Land or Sea units.
- (Board) Added visual effect for situations where a unit stack is destroyed by a card.
- (Board) Unit stack now always have the color of the unit that it is displayed on top of it
- (Dogfight) FIxed message displayed at the end of a dogfight when no unit was hit, the previous one was confusing
- (Entrenchment) The entrenchment level of a stack is now indicated on the stack by repeating the entrechment icon (3 icons for High level, 2 for Medium and 1 for Low)
- (Helicopters) Helicopter units now stay in their current region, unless they are ordered to go back to their base or previous region after their current mission. This order is done using a new button that appears in the Stack Viewer when helicopters are selected. However, helicopters cannot stay in ennemy or sea regions.
- (Leaders) A leader that replaces another one killed in battle now arrives in the structure contained in the capital region, if it exists. Otherwise, it arrives in the region itself.
- (Reinforcements) Reinforcements triggered by cards can no longer be delayed by another card.
*** FIXES ***
- (Aerial back movement) Fixed bug where the game would be stuck in this phase due to helicopters not being able to get back to their base.
- (Aerial Defense Movement) Fixed bug that allowed to drop units in regions were they were not allowed to go during this phase.
- (Battle) Fixed bug where the game was stuck in the battle in some cases where panics had to be inflicted but no opponent could panic.
- (Cards) Fixed bug where a unit destroyed by a card effect would not actually be killed and stay on board (e.g. "Surface to Air Defense" in Mali 2012)
- (Cards) Fixed bug where cards designed to teleport units could not teleport units belonging to opponents of the card's owner
- (Cards) Fixed bug where cards designed to ignore the effect of the terrain on battle's stats had no effect
- (Entrenchment) Fixed bug where entrenchment level was not correctly read from scenario data
- (Movement) Moving into a region that contains enemy units located into a not-fortified structure no longer destroys these units. Instead, they automatically move out of the structure to fight if they can.
- (Movement) Fixed bug where units located in a structure and unable to move could be automatically added to battles.
- (Movement - Battle) Fixed bug where hidden units stayed hidden during battle while they don't have this capacity
- (Options) Fixed AI level option in main Menu and in-game menu : pressing the « Cancel » button would not cancel a modification of this level
- (Siege) Fixed bug where hidden units could besiege a structure (this is not allowed by the game rules)
- (Siege) Fixed terrain effect on sieges surrender value, defender's morale in battle and combat factor during pursuits
- (Six Days) Fixed bug where Arab planes destroyed by « Focus Operation » card would still be considered destroyed in subsequent Purchase phases.
- (Stack Viewer) Fixed some tooltips for action buttons.
*** SCENARIOS ***
- (Changes) Changed some entrenchment levels to work with new Entrenchment code in Berlin1945, Bulge1944, Normandy1944, Estonia1918, Finland1918, Tannenberg1914, Saratoga1777
- (AI): Allied/UN AI improved in Normandy1944, Korea1950
- (Game Balance): changed VP threshold for score victory in Expanded Scenarios.
Thanks for your continued support, and enjoy ːsteamhappyː