March screenshots

[Janh]

I just noticed the new courier message screen, very nice! Is this the way you will give orders to AI commanders? Or is it a "text message" for other human players? Is there specific messages/orders to the divisional and corps formations?

[norb]

You can use it to communicate with anyone. The AI will follow the orders given in the message and humans can read them. There are a TON of messages, formations and orders are in there.

[Davinci]

Hey,
Can one of the modders – help me out with this question pertaining to the new courier screens;

If I’m in Open Play and I have several brigades on the other side of the map, can I send one of the brigades a courier message – pertaining to march here – and a courier will ride over to them, causing them to march to my position?

If this is in the game – it will give a whole new meaning to keeping the roads open, and or clear.

Thanks,

davinci

[Little Powell]

Davinci wrote:

Hey,
Can one of the modders – help me out with this question pertaining to the new courier screens;

If I’m in Open Play and I have several brigades on the other side of the map, can I send one of the brigades a courier message – pertaining to march here – and a courier will ride over to them, causing them to march to my position?

If this is in the game – it will give a whole new meaning to keeping the roads open, and or clear.

Thanks,

davinci

Absolutely. You can order them to march to your left/right flank, or to a specific OBJ, farm, historic location.

[DrMike1997]

wow that is fantastic new LP! Sounds like this game is going to be a quantum jump from TC B)

[Davinci]

Little Powell - Now that is really taking another step in the right direction; units that can be controlled by a courier adds a whole different level to playing this game!

Thanks, for the response;

davinci

[norb]

Larry pretty much only plays that way and really brought the courier interface through it's paces. I hate getting saves from him, because they are always HITS which is a pain to debug. But he played using the courier screen and made sure that all the commands that the AI could follow were followed. I wish we could code all the commands, but we just didn't have the resources. The screen is moddable and very easy to add too. I think it was LP that found that calls for support weren't working. I was able to add that in a few minutes.

Jim & Mark killed me on the courier screen and I hated everyday that I spent coding it, but he obviously knew better than me what you guys would want.