need definition of Regicide and Mass Regicide

[FinnMcCool]

The helpfile isn't very helpful, and I've read many threads that hint that regicide can be more flexible than MR.

I have very little experience playing MR or R, so I ask you,

Precisely, what is the effect of MR and R?

If I set the Scen Props to Regicide, can I give some civs a King and some no king? Will only the civs with a King lose if the King dies? My experience is that in Mass Regicide, any civ with no king dies. Correct?

My goal is to give Germany and Italy a King (Hitler and Mussolini) but no other WWII civs any king, since they were pretty much set up for smooth succession. Even Fascist Spain could survive Franco's death. Not Nazi Germany, and obviously not Fascist Italy...

 

[Plotinus]

I'm afraid that, as far as I know, if you have Regicide/Mass Regicide then every civ will have a king/kings. You can't apply it to some but not to others.

One possibly solution for your scenario might be to make some kings more vulnerable than others. For example, give Churchill a big defensive rating but Hitler none. Alternatively, it is possible to give a King unit stats and AI settings that will encourage the AI actually to send it out into battle (there is a tutorial on this somewhere, I believe). It might be interesting to have Hitler out fighting but Churchill always staying safely at home. Not exactly historical, but it would make the German leader that much more vulnerable.

 

[Rambuchan]

Plotinus is right, every civ will have to have at least one king unit with these MReg. and Reg. settings. If you check these settings they will all apear with one (or three) automatically. There are other observations from having a MR or R set up:

- The AI will more than likely just sit their king in a city (usually the capital) and make stack upon stack of defenders to protect it. This really changes the way they operate significantly, and for the worse in my opinion. They are a bit more foolhardy with MR set but not greatly.

- Not having regicide, means that you can still place king units on the map. However, in killing these kings it will have no effect whatsoever other than simply killing a good unit (depending on what qualities you give it).

 

[FinnMcCool]

thanks Rambuchan and Plotinus.

@Ram: some are in briefs, ya know...

 

[Rambuchan]

I don't think there's a Mass Debriefing setting mate.