SLIC - Guerrila Units

[Nordicus]

Hey, people...

Damn, have I fallen behind! What are you people talking about? Ya get ill for two weeks and look what happens!
Great ideas. I was waiting for someone to bring back the Partisan. I agree with Don: you don't need an army of them; what I found so annoying about them in general was (a) their ability to move over any terrain, (b) their range, and (c) their tenacity--they were so tough to get rid of!--I remember one game in Civ2 I lost three destroyers trying to take out just one, and it survived in the end...talk about lack of military realism, two would have done it. So, IMO, you only need a couple of them. As far as support goes, well, they should be totally free, sicne they're merely citizens who've formed a militia, right?

My suggestions:

UNIT_G {

SHIELD_COST 600
POWER_POINTS --no idea what this means ??
MAX_HP 15
ATTACK 20
DEFENSE 80
FIREPOWER 0
ZB_RANGE_ATTACK 0

BATTLEFIELD_RANGE 1
BATTLEFIELD_RADIUS 1

VISION_RANGE 3

ACTIVE_DEFENSE_RANGE 0
ELECTRONIC_COMBAT_FACTOR 0

MAX_MOVEMENT 400
FUEL 0

SHIELD_HUNGER 45
FOOD_HUNGER 0

DEFAULT_SPRITE SPRITE_G
DEFAULT_ICON ICON_UNIT_G
DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION_UNIT_G
# #id string of the default sprite
only if you have the wave files--I have plenty, something could be used
SOUND_SELECT1 SOUND_SELECT1_G
SOUND_SELECT2 SOUND_SELECT2_G
SOUND_MOVE SOUND_MOVE_G
SOUND_ACKNOWLEDGE SOUND_ACKNOWLEDGE_G
SOUND_CANTMOVE SOUND_CANTMOVE_G
SOUND_ATTACK SOUND_ATTACK_G
SOUND_WORK SOUND_WORK_G
SOUND_VICTORY SOUND_VICTORY_G
SOUND_DEATH SOUND_DEATH_G
ENABLING_ADVANCE ADVANCE_COMMUNISM
OBSOLETE_ADVANCE NULL

############## special flags #############################
MOVEMENT_TYPE_LAND
MOVEMENT_TYPE_MOUNTAIN
LOSS_MOVE_TO_DMG_NONE
SIZE_SMALL


VISIBILITY_CLASS_5

VISIBILITY_CAN_SEE_0
VISIBILITY_CAN_SEE_4
VISIBILITY_CAN_SEE_5

EXERTS_MARTIAL_LAW

IS_SPECIAL_FORCES

IGNORE_ZOC
HAS_NO_ZOC

CAN_EXPEL_POP
DEATH_EFFECTS_HAPPY
CAN_REFORM SOUND_ID_REFORM_CITY SPECEFFECT_REFORMCITY
CAN_PILLAGE
CAN_EXPEL
CAN_PIRATE


DEFEND_AGAINST_SPIES 0.10

GOVERNMENT_TYPE GOVERNMENT_COMMUNISM
SPACE_CITY_CAN_BUILD
CHEAT_INDEX 1
}

### UNIT DONE ###

This is assuming that you want it like the Civ2 one, that you want it available only with Communism (which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me), and that you want it to be an irritating, persistant, tenacious little son of a....
Thoughts?

[Dreamer]

All,

All the while I'm thinking of having the guerrilas during and after the modern age, by then the players should have enough cities and resources to support those guerrillas.

Also, why not we create the no. of guerrillas depending on the size of captured city. For example if city pop are 1-5 create 1 guerrilla, 6-10 create 2 guerrillas and so on...

Here's the codes ...

// Create Guerrillas upon city captured

TypeUnit guerrilla;

Trigger 'CreateGuerrilla' when (city.captured && HasAdvance(player.2, ID_ADVANCE_COMMUNISM)) {
  If (IsUnderseaCity(city)) {
    guerrila = UnitType("UNIT_SEA_PARTISAN");
  }
  Elseif (TerrainType(city.location) == 13) {
    guerrila = UnitType("UNIT_SPACE_PARTISAN");
  }
  Else {
    guerrila = UnitType("UNIT_PARTISAN");
  }
  If (city.population < 5) {
    unitno = 1;
  }
  Elseif (5 < city.population < 10) {
    unitno = 2;
  }
  Else {
    unitno = 3;
  }
  i = 1;
  n = 2; // To store no. of tile square away
  While (i <= unitno) {
    CreateUnit(player.2, guerrilla, city, n);
    i = i + 1;
    n = n + 1;
  }
}

Unit names need to be modified once the units.txt is ready.

[This message has been edited by Dreamer (edited January 08, 2000).]

[skorpion59]

Gemini,
Wow! Thanks, those pics are great. IMO, they don't need to be 5 facing units. I'll get the other guys opinions on that though.

Nordicus,
Yeah, time keeps going right on by. The Power_Points are not used. You got any sounds that would work with our Garrison or Guerrilla unit? And finally, the Guerrilla's will be available with Communism, not only during Communism. That threw me off at first too.

Dreamer,
I like the idea of having city size determine the number of units. Also, Communism seems okay but I will have to see where it falls on the chart to be sure. I'll do the units.txt stuff.


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Don, Apolyton Junkie

[Mark H]

Power Points are totaled to determine your spot on the Power Graph.
I'd say partisans shouldn't add much there, if any (same as garrison units).
attack 2, defense 8?
That's not any threat, just a nuisance to get rid of.
Mark

[skorpion59]

Mark,

When did Activision put the Power Points back in? I must of missed that somehow. Last I knew, the following was valid.

What are POWER_POINTS in the units.txt file?
An obsolete feature, doesn't do anything.
- Joe Rumsey, CTP programmer

Found at http://www.activision.com/games/civilization/q13.html

Don

[This message has been edited by skorpion59 (edited January 08, 2000).]