A General Question about ORBATs

[Snipey]

What is "hot swaps"?

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Snipey

What is "hot swaps"?

If you want to play a Korean war campaign as UN, you have the problem that although China came in later, at first it was all NK. So you would need 2 long campaigns to do it right.

The code has been set up so that you can set up your campaign with china in an OPFOR slot, but it will treat the "China" OPFOR as a NK choice till the appropriate point in time. It thus "hot swaps" NK for PRC till the yalu time. After whatever time that is then if china is chosen, you get PRC as normal.

Andy

[Wdll]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

If you want to play a Korean war campaign as UN, you have the problem that although China came in later, at first it was all NK. So you would need 2 long campaigns to do it right.

The code has been set up so that you can set up your campaign with china in an OPFOR slot, but it will treat the "China" OPFOR as a NK choice till the appropriate point in time. It thus "hot swaps" NK for PRC till the yalu time. After whatever time that is then if china is chosen, you get PRC as normal.

Andy

Can this be done for a generated campaign? If not, any chance of having it as an option in the future?
It would be great to be able to set when (by date or number of battles) you are finished with one opponent and fight the next one. (of the 3)

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Wdll

Can this be done for a generated campaign? If not, any chance of having it as an option in the future?
It would be great to be able to set when (by date or number of battles) you are finished with one opponent and fight the next one. (of the 3)

Absolutely not. It had to be hard-coded in the first place for the one special case.

Andy

[Wdll]

Too bad, ok thanks.

[Snipey]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

If you want to play a Korean war campaign as UN, you have the problem that although China came in later, at first it was all NK. So you would need 2 long campaigns to do it right.

The code has been set up so that you can set up your campaign with china in an OPFOR slot, but it will treat the "China" OPFOR as a NK choice till the appropriate point in time. It thus "hot swaps" NK for PRC till the yalu time. After whatever time that is then if china is chosen, you get PRC as normal.

Andy

So how would I go about setting it up? In other words, what would I click? I'm sorry for being such a newb at the tech stuff.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Snipey

So how would I go about setting it up? In other words, what would I click? I'm sorry for being such a newb at the tech stuff.

Set up your LC with your chosen UN nation as the player at the appropriate date (SKorea or USA at the start date when Nkorea attacks, UK, Turkey etc start a few months later).

Now set up the 3 opponents as either NKorea or PRC China in the proportion you want for the later phase of the Korean war (say PRC as 2 choices, NK as 1).

In the early battles, the game will substitute any internal PRC choices as North Korean, till the winter of 51 when the PRC "volunteers" came over the border. Then the normal choice will resume.

Andy

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

I've been thinking about setting up a long campaign for The Korean War. This confirms how I thought it should go and clears up for me how the AI would "react" to the campaign setup.
Thanks and with Regards,
Pat