Scourge of War Boards

A couple Waterloo questions.

1. Has the number of sprites per unit (125 for Gettysburg) been increased at all for Waterloo? (I hope so)
2. Does Waterloo take advantage of multi-core processor machines? From what I read Gettysburg did not and I think this was an objective at one time... to have Waterloo make use of multiple cores.

Look forward to buying the game!

Regards,
Archer

Gettysburg didn't have a fixed number. But 1:4 scale. So a regiment of 800 would have 200 sprites.

In Waterloo its 1:6 so 600 soldiers is 100 sprites

Gettysburg is limited however to 125 sprites max per unit, regardless of what each represents.

From what I saw of the Matrix video the battle demonstrated there used 1:10. The cavalry squadrons looked really small.

Remember that sprite ratio is different from maximum number of sprites in a unit.

Sprite ratio is largely irrelevant because its down to the customer's PC, max unit size is the biggie and I suspect SoW:WL will be the same.

yes, the max number of sprites per unit is what I was referring too. The more sprites the better in my opinion. it more visually realistic. Its kind of hard to imagine a 800 man regt when there's only 125 sprites. ...but I know sprites can be a drain on resources. ...which is why I guess I asked about the cores.

regards,
Archer

The number of allowed sprites has been increased to 200 per unit. This was to better visually represent the larger 1000 men battalions at Waterloo on 1:4 sprite ratio. The scenarios are written for 1:6 ratio after many hours of testing. Of course fear not! For those that want more sprites the option for 1:4 (or less!) is always available.

Can we get an answer on the multiple cores. This is a major concern if we are going to talk about depending on customers PC power.

Can we get an answer on the multiple cores.

Norb responded to this a while ago, I believe that LOS calculations run in a separate thread now

quoting Norb:

We have threaded all the LOS calculations and have been running that way for almost a year.

So the most that can be used is a single core with two hyperthreads even if we have 8 cores. Better than nothing.