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| − | Logistics: Railhead | + | ''' Logistics: Railhead ''' |
| − | RAILHEAD, a game of 1800's warfare with logistics | + | '' RAILHEAD, a game of 1800's warfare with logistics '' |
| − | + | * Note that "Artillery/Scout/Infantry" in the previous idea could also translate to Napoleonic warfare (Risk, Little Wars). | |
| − | + | * Among other things this translates the artillery ranges to a smaller scale (somewhere between direct cannon fire and the explosive shell) | |
| − | Little Wars). | + | * What if we tried focusing purely on an enjoyable "victory-through-logistics" simulation? |
| − | + | * Idea: Your armies on the front lines need a certain amount of resupply per day to fight effectively | |
| − | + | * The actual army combat is either simplified enough to be manageable at the same time as your logistics, or handed off to an AI? Choice of 2 general's hats, or both? | |
| − | and the explosive shell) | + | * Also AI can run logistics, especially as enemy or in combat training. |
| − | + | * The opposition is similarly presented (France vs Prussia, say, or Redosia vs Bluegaria) ..Industrial Heartland vs Motherland... | |
| − | + | * Turn-based and probably hex | |
| − | + | * Auto-form between armies and nearest supply depot? No. | |
| − | + | * Or always onus on player to place (?cheap cache) manually if expecting to hold a position? Yes. | |
| − | handed off to an AI? Choice of 2 general's hats, or both? | + | * armies only resupply themselves when moved onto a cache/depot/base (/town scavenging/friendly army) |
| − | + | * Resources for the player: time, monetary cost (and attention) | |
| − | + | * Money resource represented by War Chest. | |
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| − | vs Motherland... | ||
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== War Chest == | == War Chest == | ||
| − | + | * fixed for a given scenario? eg training | |
| − | + | * receives updates * income from government, periodically | |
| − | + | * or bonus-based eg capturing cities (or scenario ends if x captured) | |
| − | + | * or could be designed out altogether, if Time is the resource | |
== Army == | == Army == | ||
| − | + | * Perhaps, like Risk or Hex Empire, not actually distinguishable as soldiers or artillery * generic army units, considered as soldiers. | |
| − | + | * Reinforcements (bringing *soldiers* to the front) was actually key in Hex Empire | |
| − | considered as soldiers. | + | * Chief role is to fight at front. |
| − | + | * Side role to protect logistics ie supply dumps. | |
| − | + | * Troops have a certain max troop strength & max carrying capacity & max morale. | |
| − | + | * Bought? Or present in full strength at start and up to you to manage through the scenario? | |
| − | + | * Approx scale: 1 infantry unit = 1 company (80 infantry? approx 60-200 historically) in 4 platoons | |
| − | + | * 1 unit per hex, normally, unless passing through or melee | |
| + | * Formations are important. What officer assists in keeping formations? | ||
| + | * every unit has a flag? insignia carried by ensign? or option for colour party morale booster - one per brigade affects all adjacent countrymen | ||
| + | * toy soldier art concepts. | ||
=== Troop Strength === | === Troop Strength === | ||
| − | + | * Troops gain replacements ie automatically 'regenerate' when in supply, proportional to the rate of supply. Also reflects better food/better hospitals at the bigger bases. | |
| − | + | * Defined max for each unit type, will only regen up to original max | |
| − | reflects better food/better hospitals at the bigger bases. | + | * Stackable? see Combat. |
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=== Carrying Capacity === | === Carrying Capacity === | ||
| − | + | * Reflects how many supplies are actually carried by the troops when they leave the depot (staging area) | |
| − | + | * armies only resupply themselves when moved onto a cache/depot/base (/town scavenging?/friendly army) | |
| − | + | * or between adjacent armies? sharing supplies if sharing hex. | |
| − | + | * captured enemy caches? | |
| − | + | * Usage rate: | |
| − | + | * Resupply rate: | |
| − | + | * when supplies run out (or on approach to zero), starvation casualties mount | |
=== Morale === | === Morale === | ||
| − | + | * raised ++ by victory | |
| − | + | * lowered by casualties | |
| − | + | * drops slowly when bored/idle (?weather) (except in a town * entertainment) | |
| − | + | * increases slowly (to max) when >50% CC | |
| − | + | * decreases slowly (to min) when <50% CC (&++ starvation or scrounging) | |
| − | + | * automatic surrender rule when attacked, if certain conditions are true (recognize hopeless situation) | |
| − | + | * such as: supply lines cut, no adjacent friendlies, neighbors have surrendered | |
| − | + | * Prepare separate Morale table, with all possible modifiers, unique ID 000-999 | |
=== Unit Types === | === Unit Types === | ||
* Infantry: move x, attacks adjacent hex, medium damage, medium defense | * Infantry: move x, attacks adjacent hex, medium damage, medium defense | ||
| − | * Cavalry: move x*2, attacks adjacent hex, light damage/defense (the Scout/Skirmish role), +charge ability (like | + | * Cavalry: move x*2, attacks adjacent hex, light damage/defense (the Scout/Skirmish role), +charge ability (like little-wars) (bonus negated if already in adjacent hex at start of move) |
| − | + | * Artillery: move x/3, attacks non-adjacent hex (ranged), heavy damage, low defense, retreat from cavalry charge/melee (abandoning guns) | |
| − | little-wars) (bonus negated if already in adjacent hex at start of move) | ||
| − | * Artillery: move x/3, attacks non-adjacent hex (ranged), heavy damage, low defense, retreat from cavalry | ||
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| − | charge/melee (abandoning guns) | ||
=== Combat === | === Combat === | ||
| − | + | * heh! Not the key point but it needs to make sense! | |
| − | + | * For now throw in some borrowed Combat Results Table for attack/defense | |
| − | + | * Moderated by terrain type, morale, cavalry charges, experience | |
| − | + | * see free wargame links such as "march towards the sound of guns" or "cannonade". http://www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/Can.html | |
| − | + | * keeping att/def low and attrition low (except for drastic actions like melee) emphasizes supply bonuses and surrendering making the difference. (Like Little Wars, surrendering or retreating would happen before a total wipeout, even with overwhelming force.) | |
| − | http://www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/Can.html | ||
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| − | surrendering making the difference. (Like Little Wars, surrendering or retreating would happen before a total | ||
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| − | wipeout, even with overwhelming force.) | ||
== Simultaneous Turn Resolution == | == Simultaneous Turn Resolution == | ||
| − | + | * idea: like LSN, there is an "orders" phase then an "execution" phase | |
| − | + | * units may find themselves caught out by unanticipated enemy movement eg same destination hex: melee | |
| − | + | * Solium has same concept, PBEM but not simultaneous execution | |
| − | + | * "orders" is closer to concept of the day. | |
== Limited Orders == | == Limited Orders == | ||
| − | + | * Limited number of orders available per turn(not all units can move) like Solium, HexCommand, Memoir44. Reduces micromanagement & raises strategic thinking requirements. Same restriction on enemy obviously. | |
| − | + | * This may be linked to number of Commander units on the field (Brigadier Generals) or increased somewhat by purchasing them as a unit. Logically commanders could give extra orders to units they are in contact with at start of turn. | |
| − | micromanagement & raises strategic thinking requirements. Same restriction on enemy obviously. | ||
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| − | purchasing them as a unit. Logically commanders could give extra orders to units they are in contact with at start | ||
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| − | of turn. | ||
== Logistic Buildings == | == Logistic Buildings == | ||
| − | + | * able to set up bases? then move (or dismantle & rebuild) bases after advancing? "engineer" corps considered invisible except when actually building. | |
| − | + | * Unlimited engineer corps * or another resource to manage/limiting factor on how many simultaneous road/base/bridge efforts? | |
| − | invisible except when actually building. | + | * fortification upgrades? or existing? Bunkers (anti-siege), walls (anti-inf), wire/ditch (anti-cav), & new description automatic based on upgrades eg fortress |
| − | + | * Single-hex supply dumps might be in the centre of a 6-hex fortress (eg Halifax); might be a port, part of a town, city, etc. | |
| − | + | * Map scale might be: a city, and outlying villages and farmland, rarely two cities would be close enough to be shown in entirety on same battle map? | |
| − | road/base/bridge efforts? | ||
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| − | description automatic based on upgrades eg fortress | ||
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| − | town, city, etc. | ||
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| − | shown in entirety on same battle map? | ||
=== Factories === | === Factories === | ||
| − | + | * Begin with at least one: main source(s) of supply | |
| − | + | * What makes new available? Where located: cities only? | |
| − | + | * Capturable from enemy. | |
| − | + | * flavor only: munitions, food, clothing (boots, beans, bullets) | |
| − | + | * Actual production referred to generically as supplies. (supply units) | |
| − | + | * Flavor: The Old Mill. (on a river of course) Pembrose Nitrates. Acme Bandages. | |
=== Supply Dumps === | === Supply Dumps === | ||
| − | + | * Storage, like energy; supply buffers | |
| − | + | * Cheaper(?existing buildings) if placed in cities | |
| − | + | * 3 grades | |
# low: supply cache (?supply dump?): cheapest to build, low capacity | # low: supply cache (?supply dump?): cheapest to build, low capacity | ||
# (?medium low: supply dump? only if balance point needed) | # (?medium low: supply dump? only if balance point needed) | ||
# medium: supply depot: medium | # medium: supply depot: medium | ||
# high: supply base (?centre?): high | # high: supply base (?centre?): high | ||
| − | + | * cost recovered (eg 60%) when dismantling | |
| − | + | * upgradeable | |
== Logistic Routes == | == Logistic Routes == | ||
| − | + | * Begin with a certain amount pre-existing between cities. IE historical roads. | |
| − | + | * Placed (by player) between cities, or arbitrary points, ie building the ''network'' not the nodes | |
| − | + | * must place supply nodes (buildings) as above. | |
| − | + | * Road building required to upgrade routes, cost varies with length (hex by hex progress, managed by AI engineers) | |
| − | + | * Upgrade in stages (1->2->3->4) or allow jumps (1->4)? | |
| − | + | * When upgraded: try an option where all units switch to next type, or enough to give same equivalent capacity, if already in pool, and return to pool. Eg new road, return 4 mules to pool, take 2 carts from pool, (maybe player just clicks OK ?or can tweak default numbers to see new capacity before clicking OK) | |
| − | + | * Reduces player micromanagement of results of previous decision to upgrade, by doing the logical. They can then add more units themselves. | |
| − | if already in pool, and return to pool. Eg new road, return 4 mules to pool, take 2 carts from pool, (maybe player | + | * When all are removed from a route, gray out marker and/or remove highlight from route. (Road is still present, route marker, but no traffic.) Handle mule paths differently? |
| − | + | * Smart reconfig if new depot placed on existing route. (new autoassigned marker, etc) | |
| − | just clicks OK ?or can tweak default numbers to see new capacity before clicking OK) | ||
| − | |||
| − | micromanagement of results of previous decision to upgrade, by doing the logical. They can then add more units | ||
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| − | themselves. | ||
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| − | route marker, but no traffic.) Handle mule paths differently? | ||
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== Logistic Units == | == Logistic Units == | ||
| − | + | * automoved by AI once placed on a route (click on route marker (RedBallExpress)) | |
| − | + | * automove at end of turn, allowing player override during turn? | |
| − | + | * can be attacked directly by armies | |
| − | + | * can be removed from a route and returned to a central 'pool' eg right-click on route marker. | |
| − | + | * Sidebar "motor pool" display should show with labelled icons (& icon bar or fuel gauge) & numbers how many of each type are in use/total owned eg Mules 7/10, Carts 4/4. "Mule pool" heh. Horseheads with blinders. (+)(Buy) and (-)(Sell) buttons for each row. --what if more than 10? Scaling icons to represent a percentage rather than just 1? What does 20 overlapping small pixelated mule heads look like? Available units in highlight or border, in-use units lowlighted. See "Antarctic Colony" flash eg. | |
| − | + | * Assume units can place immediately anywhere from pool, ie mules 'move' instantly from one side of the map to the other. | |
| − | each type are in use/total owned eg Mules 7/10, Carts 4/4. "Mule pool" heh. Horseheads with blinders. (+)(Buy) and | ||
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| − | (-)(Sell) buttons for each row. --what if more than 10? Scaling icons to represent a percentage rather than just | ||
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| − | 1? What does 20 overlapping small pixelated mule heads look like? Available units in highlight or border, in-use | ||
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| − | units lowlighted. See "Antarctic Colony" flash eg. | ||
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| − | other. | ||
=== Types === | === Types === | ||
Ranked by capacity (and susceptibility to damage) and terrain requirements; cost | Ranked by capacity (and susceptibility to damage) and terrain requirements; cost | ||
| − | + | * Pack Mule: Requires minimal/footpath (eg even into the mountains, but not straight up cliffs or rivers). (no wheels) | |
| − | + | * Horse Cart: Requires dirt road, river ford, floating bridge (2 wheels) | |
| − | + | * Wagon/Truck: Requires paved road, road bridge (4 wheels) | |
| − | + | * Rail car : Requires rail track, station, railhead, rail bridge (8 wheels) | |
| − | + | * How to represent >1 mule? >1 train car? | |
Optional: Waterways, canals, barges, | Optional: Waterways, canals, barges, | ||
== Resupply rate Formula == | == Resupply rate Formula == | ||
Formula: Resupply rate = capacity of carriers * number of carriers * route length (?* fudge) | Formula: Resupply rate = capacity of carriers * number of carriers * route length (?* fudge) | ||
| − | Carriers will attempt to fully load themselves from supply depot/source | + | * Carriers will attempt to fully load themselves from supply depot/source |
| − | Direction of flow (source->drain) is always heartland factory -> army in field | + | * Direction of flow (source->drain) is always heartland factory -> army in field |
eg. army1 resupply = 3 pack mules over 7 kilometers | eg. army1 resupply = 3 pack mules over 7 kilometers | ||
== Resultants == | == Resultants == | ||
| − | + | * when building or extending a railroad, placing cheap caches as you go allows you to reap benefit before reaching intended extent. '''Railhead''' | |
| − | + | * Armies have a better chance of intercepting attacks on their depot if placed away from depot (out of supply?adjacent) & also you need to move out of supply to advance. Balance for player risk/reward. | |
| − | intended extent. '''Railhead''' | + | * must game min/max scenarios ie what limits on infinite mules on one route? |
| − | + | * if not stackable * then solves this one: all armies stacked on one base. Defeat that! * cut rail line. Hit railcars with artillery. * what if all armies stacked on factory? No rail line. | |
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| − | adjacent) & also you need to move out of supply to advance. Balance for player risk/reward. | ||
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| − | railcars with artillery. | ||
== Loss Conditions == | == Loss Conditions == | ||
| − | + | * armies wiped out. All armies wiped out. Recognize endgame. | |
| − | + | * logistics wiped out. Recognize endgame if warchest empty. | |
| − | + | * engineers wiped out. Recognize endgame if warchest empty. | |
== Win Conditions (Objectives) == | == Win Conditions (Objectives) == | ||
| − | + | * eliminate all enemy armies | |
| − | + | * capture and hold all enemy cities | |
| − | + | * training/scenario objectives: certain cities, certain factories, build x depots, connect city x by rail | |
| + | * protect special units eg entertainers or VIPs | ||
| + | * surrender to revolutionary forces | ||
== Strategies & Fun == | == Strategies & Fun == | ||
| − | + | * Keep your armies in supply to keep them alive! Rotate wounded to rear. | |
| − | + | * Advance armies to capture cities * and bring up supply lines behind them. | |
| − | + | * Upgrade routes (combat engineers) or dismantle, upgrade depots or dismantle | |
| − | + | * Repair cut or bombed routes, bridges, chase away enemy! Keep "Red Ball Express" moving! | |
| − | + | * Take over enemy supply depots (?and blow up to prevent recapture?) | |
| − | + | * Take over enemy cities and factories to increase production (/gain new units?) | |
| − | + | * Starve enemy armies by cutting rail lines, encircle and demolish them | |
== Linkys == | == Linkys == | ||
| Line 225: | Line 169: | ||
== Glossary == | == Glossary == | ||
glossary to have links into text of design document later. | glossary to have links into text of design document later. | ||
| − | wagonway | + | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wagonway |
| − | lorry | + | * lorry |
| − | gurney | + | * gurney |
| − | locomotive | + | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/locomotive |
| − | steamer | + | * steamer |
| − | fusillier | + | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fusillier |
| − | grenadier | + | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/grenadier |
| − | dragoon | + | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dragoon |
| − | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-drawn_vehicle | + | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-drawn_vehicle |
| − | (2-wheeled Cart, 4-wheeled Wagon) | + | * (2-wheeled Cart, 4-wheeled Wagon) |
| − | Covered Wagon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon | + | * Covered Wagon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon |
| − | http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/User:Jellyfishgreen/Railhead | + | * Railhead http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rail-Head |
| + | * http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/User:Jellyfishgreen/Railhead | ||
| + | |||
| + | --[[User:Jellyfishgreen|Jellyfishgreen]] 11:43, 15 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 17:25, 17 December 2009
Logistics: Railhead RAILHEAD, a game of 1800's warfare with logistics
- Note that "Artillery/Scout/Infantry" in the previous idea could also translate to Napoleonic warfare (Risk, Little Wars).
- Among other things this translates the artillery ranges to a smaller scale (somewhere between direct cannon fire and the explosive shell)
- What if we tried focusing purely on an enjoyable "victory-through-logistics" simulation?
- Idea: Your armies on the front lines need a certain amount of resupply per day to fight effectively
- The actual army combat is either simplified enough to be manageable at the same time as your logistics, or handed off to an AI? Choice of 2 general's hats, or both?
- Also AI can run logistics, especially as enemy or in combat training.
- The opposition is similarly presented (France vs Prussia, say, or Redosia vs Bluegaria) ..Industrial Heartland vs Motherland...
- Turn-based and probably hex
- Auto-form between armies and nearest supply depot? No.
- Or always onus on player to place (?cheap cache) manually if expecting to hold a position? Yes.
- armies only resupply themselves when moved onto a cache/depot/base (/town scavenging/friendly army)
- Resources for the player: time, monetary cost (and attention)
- Money resource represented by War Chest.
War Chest[edit]
- fixed for a given scenario? eg training
- receives updates * income from government, periodically
- or bonus-based eg capturing cities (or scenario ends if x captured)
- or could be designed out altogether, if Time is the resource
Army[edit]
- Perhaps, like Risk or Hex Empire, not actually distinguishable as soldiers or artillery * generic army units, considered as soldiers.
- Reinforcements (bringing *soldiers* to the front) was actually key in Hex Empire
- Chief role is to fight at front.
- Side role to protect logistics ie supply dumps.
- Troops have a certain max troop strength & max carrying capacity & max morale.
- Bought? Or present in full strength at start and up to you to manage through the scenario?
- Approx scale: 1 infantry unit = 1 company (80 infantry? approx 60-200 historically) in 4 platoons
- 1 unit per hex, normally, unless passing through or melee
- Formations are important. What officer assists in keeping formations?
- every unit has a flag? insignia carried by ensign? or option for colour party morale booster - one per brigade affects all adjacent countrymen
- toy soldier art concepts.
Troop Strength[edit]
- Troops gain replacements ie automatically 'regenerate' when in supply, proportional to the rate of supply. Also reflects better food/better hospitals at the bigger bases.
- Defined max for each unit type, will only regen up to original max
- Stackable? see Combat.
Carrying Capacity[edit]
- Reflects how many supplies are actually carried by the troops when they leave the depot (staging area)
- armies only resupply themselves when moved onto a cache/depot/base (/town scavenging?/friendly army)
- or between adjacent armies? sharing supplies if sharing hex.
- captured enemy caches?
- Usage rate:
- Resupply rate:
- when supplies run out (or on approach to zero), starvation casualties mount
Morale[edit]
- raised ++ by victory
- lowered by casualties
- drops slowly when bored/idle (?weather) (except in a town * entertainment)
- increases slowly (to max) when >50% CC
- decreases slowly (to min) when <50% CC (&++ starvation or scrounging)
- automatic surrender rule when attacked, if certain conditions are true (recognize hopeless situation)
- such as: supply lines cut, no adjacent friendlies, neighbors have surrendered
- Prepare separate Morale table, with all possible modifiers, unique ID 000-999
Unit Types[edit]
- Infantry: move x, attacks adjacent hex, medium damage, medium defense
- Cavalry: move x*2, attacks adjacent hex, light damage/defense (the Scout/Skirmish role), +charge ability (like little-wars) (bonus negated if already in adjacent hex at start of move)
- Artillery: move x/3, attacks non-adjacent hex (ranged), heavy damage, low defense, retreat from cavalry charge/melee (abandoning guns)
Combat[edit]
- heh! Not the key point but it needs to make sense!
- For now throw in some borrowed Combat Results Table for attack/defense
- Moderated by terrain type, morale, cavalry charges, experience
- see free wargame links such as "march towards the sound of guns" or "cannonade". http://www.angelfire.com/games2/warpspawn/Can.html
- keeping att/def low and attrition low (except for drastic actions like melee) emphasizes supply bonuses and surrendering making the difference. (Like Little Wars, surrendering or retreating would happen before a total wipeout, even with overwhelming force.)
Simultaneous Turn Resolution[edit]
- idea: like LSN, there is an "orders" phase then an "execution" phase
- units may find themselves caught out by unanticipated enemy movement eg same destination hex: melee
- Solium has same concept, PBEM but not simultaneous execution
- "orders" is closer to concept of the day.
Limited Orders[edit]
- Limited number of orders available per turn(not all units can move) like Solium, HexCommand, Memoir44. Reduces micromanagement & raises strategic thinking requirements. Same restriction on enemy obviously.
- This may be linked to number of Commander units on the field (Brigadier Generals) or increased somewhat by purchasing them as a unit. Logically commanders could give extra orders to units they are in contact with at start of turn.
Logistic Buildings[edit]
- able to set up bases? then move (or dismantle & rebuild) bases after advancing? "engineer" corps considered invisible except when actually building.
- Unlimited engineer corps * or another resource to manage/limiting factor on how many simultaneous road/base/bridge efforts?
- fortification upgrades? or existing? Bunkers (anti-siege), walls (anti-inf), wire/ditch (anti-cav), & new description automatic based on upgrades eg fortress
- Single-hex supply dumps might be in the centre of a 6-hex fortress (eg Halifax); might be a port, part of a town, city, etc.
- Map scale might be: a city, and outlying villages and farmland, rarely two cities would be close enough to be shown in entirety on same battle map?
Factories[edit]
- Begin with at least one: main source(s) of supply
- What makes new available? Where located: cities only?
- Capturable from enemy.
- flavor only: munitions, food, clothing (boots, beans, bullets)
- Actual production referred to generically as supplies. (supply units)
- Flavor: The Old Mill. (on a river of course) Pembrose Nitrates. Acme Bandages.
Supply Dumps[edit]
- Storage, like energy; supply buffers
- Cheaper(?existing buildings) if placed in cities
- 3 grades
- low: supply cache (?supply dump?): cheapest to build, low capacity
- (?medium low: supply dump? only if balance point needed)
- medium: supply depot: medium
- high: supply base (?centre?): high
- cost recovered (eg 60%) when dismantling
- upgradeable
Logistic Routes[edit]
- Begin with a certain amount pre-existing between cities. IE historical roads.
- Placed (by player) between cities, or arbitrary points, ie building the network not the nodes
- must place supply nodes (buildings) as above.
- Road building required to upgrade routes, cost varies with length (hex by hex progress, managed by AI engineers)
- Upgrade in stages (1->2->3->4) or allow jumps (1->4)?
- When upgraded: try an option where all units switch to next type, or enough to give same equivalent capacity, if already in pool, and return to pool. Eg new road, return 4 mules to pool, take 2 carts from pool, (maybe player just clicks OK ?or can tweak default numbers to see new capacity before clicking OK)
- Reduces player micromanagement of results of previous decision to upgrade, by doing the logical. They can then add more units themselves.
- When all are removed from a route, gray out marker and/or remove highlight from route. (Road is still present, route marker, but no traffic.) Handle mule paths differently?
- Smart reconfig if new depot placed on existing route. (new autoassigned marker, etc)
Logistic Units[edit]
- automoved by AI once placed on a route (click on route marker (RedBallExpress))
- automove at end of turn, allowing player override during turn?
- can be attacked directly by armies
- can be removed from a route and returned to a central 'pool' eg right-click on route marker.
- Sidebar "motor pool" display should show with labelled icons (& icon bar or fuel gauge) & numbers how many of each type are in use/total owned eg Mules 7/10, Carts 4/4. "Mule pool" heh. Horseheads with blinders. (+)(Buy) and (-)(Sell) buttons for each row. --what if more than 10? Scaling icons to represent a percentage rather than just 1? What does 20 overlapping small pixelated mule heads look like? Available units in highlight or border, in-use units lowlighted. See "Antarctic Colony" flash eg.
- Assume units can place immediately anywhere from pool, ie mules 'move' instantly from one side of the map to the other.
Types[edit]
Ranked by capacity (and susceptibility to damage) and terrain requirements; cost
- Pack Mule: Requires minimal/footpath (eg even into the mountains, but not straight up cliffs or rivers). (no wheels)
- Horse Cart: Requires dirt road, river ford, floating bridge (2 wheels)
- Wagon/Truck: Requires paved road, road bridge (4 wheels)
- Rail car : Requires rail track, station, railhead, rail bridge (8 wheels)
- How to represent >1 mule? >1 train car?
Optional: Waterways, canals, barges,
Resupply rate Formula[edit]
Formula: Resupply rate = capacity of carriers * number of carriers * route length (?* fudge)
- Carriers will attempt to fully load themselves from supply depot/source
- Direction of flow (source->drain) is always heartland factory -> army in field
eg. army1 resupply = 3 pack mules over 7 kilometers
Resultants[edit]
- when building or extending a railroad, placing cheap caches as you go allows you to reap benefit before reaching intended extent. Railhead
- Armies have a better chance of intercepting attacks on their depot if placed away from depot (out of supply?adjacent) & also you need to move out of supply to advance. Balance for player risk/reward.
- must game min/max scenarios ie what limits on infinite mules on one route?
- if not stackable * then solves this one: all armies stacked on one base. Defeat that! * cut rail line. Hit railcars with artillery. * what if all armies stacked on factory? No rail line.
Loss Conditions[edit]
- armies wiped out. All armies wiped out. Recognize endgame.
- logistics wiped out. Recognize endgame if warchest empty.
- engineers wiped out. Recognize endgame if warchest empty.
Win Conditions (Objectives)[edit]
- eliminate all enemy armies
- capture and hold all enemy cities
- training/scenario objectives: certain cities, certain factories, build x depots, connect city x by rail
- protect special units eg entertainers or VIPs
- surrender to revolutionary forces
Strategies & Fun[edit]
- Keep your armies in supply to keep them alive! Rotate wounded to rear.
- Advance armies to capture cities * and bring up supply lines behind them.
- Upgrade routes (combat engineers) or dismantle, upgrade depots or dismantle
- Repair cut or bombed routes, bridges, chase away enemy! Keep "Red Ball Express" moving!
- Take over enemy supply depots (?and blow up to prevent recapture?)
- Take over enemy cities and factories to increase production (/gain new units?)
- Starve enemy armies by cutting rail lines, encircle and demolish them
Linkys[edit]
Napoleon at War http://www.freeverse.com/mac/product/?id=9001 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/the-practical-art-of-moving-armies.htm
Free Rules selection http://freewargamesrules.co.uk/index.php?page=napoleonic
http://www.kamikazewargames.com/index.htm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wargame/ (Ogre3DJava, non-hex, nice map, compiled for Windows) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdlwargame/ (Utilities, 0.1, not updated since 2005)
Glossary[edit]
glossary to have links into text of design document later.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wagonway
- lorry
- gurney
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/locomotive
- steamer
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fusillier
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/grenadier
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dragoon
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse-drawn_vehicle
- (2-wheeled Cart, 4-wheeled Wagon)
- Covered Wagon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon
- Railhead http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rail-Head
- http://dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/User:Jellyfishgreen/Railhead
--Jellyfishgreen 11:43, 15 December 2009 (UTC)