Re: Defense Initiative

[Dave Fancella <david.fancella@comcast.net>]

On Friday 12 March 2004 09:28 pm, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> No, there isn't. How do you tell units which have been preparing for
> enemy attacks and dug in from units slacking in supposedly safe territory
> and getting ambushed unexpectedly by some fighters which sneaked through
> the front lines? Besides, I think it's not a good idea to punish offensive
> play.

Hmm, you don't?  I agree that punishing offensive play is bad, because I like 
to be offensive.  But it's not punishing offensive play, it's rewarding 
defensive play.  See, if you had your newspeak dictionary it would have been 
more clear that this idea is doubleplusgood.

Seriously, I respectfully disagree to an extent.  The idea is that if you are 
being attacked, you set up a line, prepare, build fortifications, and all 
sorts of things, right?  So another way to implement this idea, anyway, is to 
allow a unit, on its turn, to dig in.  Give it a fortify command just like in 
Civilization, and the unit digs in defensively.  So for every turn he's dug 
in, he gains some sort of bonus on his defensive rating, with a maximum, so 
it could cumulate over two turns and then hit the ceiling.  Then, when he 
attacks, any bonus he gained in defense is lost, because he's not dug in 
anymore.  :)  How about that?

Oh yeah, don't read my signature this time.

Dave

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