Battle reports: ??

[snoopy369]

I don't remember us ever discussing Battle Reports, in the pre-game. I don't think we have needed them yet, but I don't doubt that in the next 10-20 turns *someone* will attack *someone else*.

I know Battle Reports can be a huge issue for some people ... but I think for a major game (like a demo game ... ) they are pretty much mandatory.

Opinions? Opinions on type? (And did we already discuss this? I don't think so, but something's sticking in the back of my head ... )

I suggest mandatory battle reports that are sent to the victim, until all six teams meet (assuming all six survive to meet), at which point a thread is started and all reports posted there. Reports should be details of:
1) all attacks; unit types, starting HPs, ending HPs
2) all ZOC hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs)
3) all Artillery hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs)
4) All city captures, with or without military combat

(ducks)

[Rhothaerill]

Yes, we should have battle reports. They aren't as necessary for regular PBEMs, but they are very helpful in demo games so you can actually figure out what happened, as well as begin planning your own moves based on that battle so you don't have to take so much time when the save actually comes around to you.

[ormuzd]

Oh, god
I expected The Horde to be the first involved in a war. Or maybe there are tensions between them and Euphorica?

[Aqualung71]

Re: Battle reports: ??

Originally posted by snoopy369
1) all attacks; unit types, starting HPs, ending HPs
2) all ZOC hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs)
3) all Artillery hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs)
4) All city captures, with or without military combat

(ducks)

1. Yes, definitely
2. Not necessary and hard to track
3. In general terms yes ("my 10 Cats took a few HP's off, but some missed"....or "my 10 Cats were damn useless and took off a total of 1 HP because you're in the mountains you coward")
4. Yes, definitely

[Kloreep]

1. Yes
2. Not a whole lot of info to be gained, but in the interests of completeness it would probably be good
3. And might as well be specific. I'd hope teams will be keeping close track
of their moves, especially combat, themselves anyway.
4. Yep

[snoopy369]

By ZOC i mean cavalry shooting at your soldiers as they pass by without engaging ... i don't see how that is any harder than any other sort of attack to track. And they manage ok in PTWDG1 ...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by ormuzd
Oh, god
I expected The Horde to be the first involved in a war. Or maybe there are tensions between them and Euphorica?

I am not suggesting that I am involved in a war in any way as a part of a team or otherwise. I am simply thinking ahead.

TBH it came from PTWDG1 reading, actually. There was a bit of a battle there a while back I hear...

[Paddy]

The Horde agrees with comprehensive battle reports...

[Krill]

There was a bit of a battle there a while back I hear...

• The Battle for Fort Stanwix (Lego)
• Operation Watergroged, and the Flank at Stanwix (GS)
• The Breakout at Stanwix (GoW)
• The Battle of Abiline (GS)

I was around during the breakout, and I promise you that those battle reports don't show even one tenth of the effort put into that one turn.


1) all attacks; unit types, starting HPs, ending HPs
2) all ZOC hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs) (I'm to lazy damn you )
3) all Artillery hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs)
4) All city captures, with or without military combat

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Krill

There was a bit of a battle there a while back I hear...

• The Battles for Fort Stanwix (Lego)
• Operation Watergroged, an the Flank at Stanwix (GS)
• The Breakout at Stanwix (GoW)
• The Battle of Abiline (GS)

I was around during the breakout, and I promise you that those battle reports don't show even one tenth of the effort put into that one turn.


1) all attacks; unit types, starting HPs, ending HPs
2) all ZOC hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs) (I'm to lazy damn you )
3) all Artillery hits or misses (unit types, ending HPs)
4) All city captures, with or without military combat

lol

Why are ZOC hits/misses difficult?? If people don't want them then I'm fine with that, but I don't see them as being any more difficult, or any less meaningful, than any other element that I posted above. They're a loss of hitpoints by a unit, just like an attack; and they don't really come up that much except during certain later eras in the game (and a well planned attack will avoid them to a large extent anyway). I mean, they're basically just artillery barrages, just not the head-on type, but from the side ...

[Krill]

I don't mind doing the hits, but the misses? I don't know all of the circustances under which they happen, so I would not know where them to put them in the report...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Krill
I don't mind doing the hits, but the misses? I don't know all of the circustances under which they happen, so I would not know where them to put them in the report...

You see it miss, do you not? Guess it's been a little while since i've played a game where they happen, but i thought it's just like artillery - you see a pause, the unit shoots at you, your HP don't go down, and you move on ...

But, hits are better than nothing, too.

[Krill]

I can't remember seeing any misses...

[Aqualung71]

Sorry....we haven't reported any of our battles to date.

[snoopy369]

Please report them to the offended parties then