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Sim/Strategy/War => Scourge Of War => Topic started by: Longknife on December 04, 2016, 05:45:06 AM

Title: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Longknife on December 04, 2016, 05:45:06 AM: Well I finally applied myself to SoWWL & had a really good time! I have pretty much everything figure out now & I played my 1st bonafide battle & I lost...

Honestly I dont get it. I played the 1st mission in the listing "The Emperors Plan (F=Brigade)". Mission brief calls for pushing the English out of the woods. I fixed him in place with skirmishers flanked him with another battalion & rolled up his lines. It was textbook. I lost 62 troops for his 306, took the field & yet it says in the AAR that it was a defeat? What gives?
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Tuna on December 04, 2016, 05:49:05 AM: Everyone loses that one, it's like that Star Trek Simulation Kirk cheated at!
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Longknife on December 04, 2016, 05:55:14 AM: Guess I need to reprogram the holodeck. 8)

Thx!
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Asid on December 04, 2016, 05:59:12 AM: Quote from: Tuna on December 04, 2016, 05:49:05 AM
Everyone loses that one, it's like that Star Trek Simulation Kirk cheated at!

kobayashi maru

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b7bJk4gXzbY/maxresdefault.jpg)

It can be won. Take the orchard. Put your commander in the centre. The icon above it must change to show you have taken it. You must hold it.
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Longknife on December 05, 2016, 04:05:06 PM: So how far can the English shoot their muskets?

I replayed this scenario last night with the intentions of following Asids advice & stay in the orchard. I was about 20yds behind my troops in the center who were about 125yds from the English when I got shot out of my saddle. Yeah I know I should have been farther back but I needed to see how the right flank was developing & thought at a range of approx 150yds I was pretty safe.
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Stardog765 on December 05, 2016, 04:16:00 PM: NOT everyone loses that one :)

;)
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Asid on December 05, 2016, 04:26:00 PM: Quote from: Longknife on December 05, 2016, 04:05:06 PM
So how far can the English shoot their muskets?

On page 1 of "Options". Turn on "Display target list". When you click on a friendly then info will appear in top left regarding enemy and distance.

Press "W" icon on toolbar for "weapons" info it will tell you the ranges. It will give you maximum and optimum range.

Model 1777 Carleville (France, KS mod)
Maximum range = 150yds.
Optimum range = 60yds.
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Longknife on December 05, 2016, 04:43:02 PM: I was right at that max range. Bad luck I guess.
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Asid on December 05, 2016, 04:46:58 PM: Quote from: Longknife on December 05, 2016, 04:43:02 PM
I was right at that max range. Bad luck I guess.

Would be lucky to hit anything and it would have taken a long time.
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Longknife on December 06, 2016, 03:21:04 AM: Quote from: Stardog765 on December 05, 2016, 04:16:00 PM
NOT everyone loses that one :)

;)

You going to have to show me how you did it brah! I have played it 6 times now & every time I accomplished my objectives with a minimal loss of men & it still says marginal defeat.
Title: Re: Defeat?!?!?
Post by: Mr. Digby on December 06, 2016, 05:57:14 PM: That's peculiar. Generals are never killed by fire, only ever by their sprite being contacted by enemy sprites.