Posts made by Samael

Has anyone achived this?..
I sat and discussed it whit a friend the other day and he tried it on me in a game. Sending 2 subs and 2 fighters on the ships outside hawaii, and the remaining 4 fighters from the carriers to the fleet outside the US west coast. He failed misserbly, but he had some extreme bad luck.

But if this attack is successfull, you can hinder any reenforcements being sent to australia by CAP’ing and the us have a serious problem getting it’s act togheter again. Of course the us will counter attack this fleet, but it will be an even run and will only delay the us further, and buying more time for Japan.

Australia will have serious trouble if you first putt presure on india so that most of the Brittish convoy money goes there. And then shift the atention to Australia (with some quick naval action) which should be easely defeated without the help of american troops and ships…

Does any of this make sence? :D

//Samael

Just so you know… I wrote that last one…
Damn auto login, it becomes a habit. did’nt even check to see if I were loged in… :oops:

//Samael

I thougt up these rules for paratroopers to be included in A&A, Europe and Pacific games:

• Paratroopers cost 4 IPC each (More complex training then infantry)
• 2 paratrooper units can be loaded in a bomber.
• Bombers that drop paratroopers CANT be used to strat bomb or attack.
• Bombers that drop paratroopers CAN be hit by aa guns.
• If a bomber carrying paratroopers is hit by flak, roll a dice for each paratrooper on a 1 or 2, the paratrooper gets out safely, otherwise it goes down with the plane.
• In the turn the paratroopers drops in, they attack on 1, after that, when they get organized on the ground they attack on 2 or less.
• In pacific, bombers carrying paratroopers can be intercepted by CAP fighters.

What do you guys think… I havent tested this yet, just something I thought up after watching “Band of Brothers” :D
Happy to head suggestions…

//Samael

I think that the convoy centers, the one’s with the union jack flag and ipc numbers on them must be recaptured by the allies, even if there is’nt any enemy ships there… But the convoys assosiated with the islands is only blockaded as long as there is enemy warships in that seazone… as sone as they leave, the landowner can collect the income without recapturing the seazone…

/Samael

Hi…
I got a question…
If a fleet made up of only subs travel trough a seazone with an enemy cap fighter, they only have to stop if there is an enemy destroyer there to right? Planes can’t atack subs without destroyers so the subs should sneek right past, or am I completly wrong??

/Samael

I dont know, I think it would add another point of realism to the game…
It would make tanks less valuble in cityfighting and let the players think of other ways to conquer your foe. And it will let players “fortify” some areas that needs protection.
And the axis would of course benifit of the AT guns aswell in fortess europe and also when a russian counter offensive comes.

//Samael

@Buen:

Also, the AA guns was normally of lower caliber than the AT guns… to give a higher rate of fire and hence a higher killing power (planes arent that armored).

I’m no expert, but is’nt the designation 88, as in Flak 88, the calibre of the weapon? So the AA gun was of calibre 88mm and if you then have a 88 AT gun… shouldnt that be the same calibre?
Then the munitions could be of different lenght and, and also under sized for precision.

//Samael

I haven’t done any work on the calculator since version 1.1b, there just has’nt been time… I’ll post a non .NET version shortly though…
Lots of projects in the making though… :D

Inxduk: How are your calculations going along?
If you wish I could send you the GUI and you can just implement your calculatoins to test them… Just have them in Visual C++ C or Visual C# 7 though…

//Samael

oops… my bad…
Forgott the outer for loop :oops:

It works fine now… I’m working with another theory that might work
better when removing casualites… but i’m not sure how it’ll work out…
I’ll let you now…

//Samael

What do you mean with this line here?
//for a tank take half of what’s in a hits, and shift it up, the rest stays where it is

As I understand it it should be something like this…
for(int i=0; i<=MAXATTHITS; i++)
{
float half = (ahits_/2);
ahits _-= half;
ahits[i+1] += half;
}
and then add .5 to all the cells?

Or have I gotten it completly wrong??
I can’t get it to work with more than 1 attacking unit…

//Samael__

//here is the cool part:
//for a tank take half of what’s in a hits, and shift it up, the rest stays where it is, //and you add .5 to ahits[0]

Isn’t all the cells in the array set to zero? or should something happend before that that is’nt stated?..
If i use it as it says and then add 0.5 and do the inner for loop it seems that the result will be0.75 to hit and 0.25 to miss… wich clearly is’nt right… or am I missing the point here…
I’ll go home and pull out “ye old calculus” books to see if i can lend a hand in solving the problem…

//Samael

Sure, that would be nice…
Maybe we can work togheter on this to optimize the code??
If you have the time…
//Samael

It seems lika an interesting idea, but I think with large armies (German assault on a Stacked Russian) will soon lead to trouble and veary komplex computations…
And what will happend when 2 battleships engage eachother in Pacific/ Europe, when they have two hits each…

I think it’ll lead to lots of work… but I’m willing to try to write the code… I like a challange :D

If you have the time i would like to see a more direct calculation of this so I can see how to implement all this in the code… I hade some ideas like this when I started writning the code… But I realized that whit enough repetitions you’ll get basicly the same result… But your way should be faster to computate then 5000 dice rolls… :D…

//Samael

Yes, it does n rounds and calculate the odds from that.
I thought about doing it a more “sientific” way… but got stuck at the Calculus, so if you can give me a push in the right direction it’ll be great. :D
I’ll add more features as I go along, so the most likley outcome’s will be in there… just hang on… :D

Great pointers though… thanx…

//Samael

I’m am currently working on a converison to Java wich will make it plattform independent, and it will be able to be accessed online too.
But it’ll probebley be a litte slower then the C# version, depending on the JVM :-? , I’ll try to optimize it… I’ll let you know when it’s done.

Shouldn’t take to long… the code for the calculations should be pretty much the same…

//Samael

Hi…
Just thought I’d post it in this forum to, since not all read the pacific forum.
I’ve done an odds calulator for A&A, it can be used for all three games
(A&A, Europe and Pacific). Just grab and try it at my homepage, and
notify me of any bugs or ideas to make it better so that i can release the final version…
And hopfully get it in as an download on this page :wink:

Get it at:
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-43238/

Read the readme file for instructions…

//Samael

New version out…
Just grab and try it… :D

http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-43238

//Samael

Ok… I have just tested it and it is confirmed that the calculator will work
with all windows operating systems from Win 98 and later…
All that is required is the .NET framework that can be downloaded from the link in the post above this one…

So start use it and send me some bug reports… :D

//Samael

For you guys who don’t have the .NET framework, it can be downloaded from this page.

http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en

It is compatible with all the Windows system from 98 and up…
I don’t know if that means that the calculator will work on win 98…
If someone tries it, please write and tell how it went… :wink:

My A&A odds calculator is now “finnished”.
It’s still a beta version, but i was hoping on u guys to help me out and
find any bugs that may still be in there… :P
It uses all 3 of the original games rules… so we finaly have one that works with pacific…
I would like any one who uses it to send me a mail… or post a message
here so that I can make it better… mail me at:
andreas.faltman@swipnet.se

It doesn’t look all that great now… but I will add more colors and stuff to it later…

U need Windows 2000 or Windows XP and the .NET framework to use it…

Download it at:
http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-43238

//Samael