Re: WWII: The Invasion of Poland -V2- 24/1/09
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:16 am
The first thing that is glaring is that this map is unnecessarily large. 840x800 is meant for maps that really need it. cairnswk already said it but instead of looking to add more detail, consider just making the map a bit smaller. You've got quite a bit going on already with tanks, planes, and flags. You don't want the image to look overcomplicated. Right now I'd say this image is light years beyond a draft stage. I don't really see much that needs to change except minor details.
if you're going to change the red tanks and planes then please change the green tanks and planes too. they look teh ugly. maybe if they were more of a proper green colour like planes actually were/are. the neon tanks are a bit too cartoony.
Gameplay on the other hand has problems.
Commanders get +3 auto. I'm assuming each territory starts with 3 armies. I go first. I own Vasily Chuikov. 3 on the terr to start. 3 more from my auto. 3 more from my deploy. 9 armies take over the 3 on SU3. I didn't lose anyone! 8 armies to attack with and I have 2 commanders with only 3 armies on them! Maybe I'll only go after one of them and leave 4 armies on my two commanders. maybe someone else will grab them from me. maybe they won't but whoever owned the one I took over won't start with one. Or I guess if people only start on commanders they are out of the game?
if indeed you meant to start everyone with only their commander then I'm not sure how you can fix that without putting oodles of neutral armies on map which would make things worse.
Maybe start everyone on all the territories except commanders? Not sure how'd that play out. perhaps the autodeploy would have to be lessened slightly.
edit: well I just saw the Planes can only bombard but my description above still stands. you can attack into Poland onto a tank and then attack someone else's commander. One commander even directly connects with a Polish Commander and can get an additional bonus by only taking out one territory. something has to change.
if you're going to change the red tanks and planes then please change the green tanks and planes too. they look teh ugly. maybe if they were more of a proper green colour like planes actually were/are. the neon tanks are a bit too cartoony.
Gameplay on the other hand has problems.
Commanders get +3 auto. I'm assuming each territory starts with 3 armies. I go first. I own Vasily Chuikov. 3 on the terr to start. 3 more from my auto. 3 more from my deploy. 9 armies take over the 3 on SU3. I didn't lose anyone! 8 armies to attack with and I have 2 commanders with only 3 armies on them! Maybe I'll only go after one of them and leave 4 armies on my two commanders. maybe someone else will grab them from me. maybe they won't but whoever owned the one I took over won't start with one. Or I guess if people only start on commanders they are out of the game?
if indeed you meant to start everyone with only their commander then I'm not sure how you can fix that without putting oodles of neutral armies on map which would make things worse.
Maybe start everyone on all the territories except commanders? Not sure how'd that play out. perhaps the autodeploy would have to be lessened slightly.
edit: well I just saw the Planes can only bombard but my description above still stands. you can attack into Poland onto a tank and then attack someone else's commander. One commander even directly connects with a Polish Commander and can get an additional bonus by only taking out one territory. something has to change.