Question on adding combat bonus

[SerriaFox]

I am thinking of increasing the 1upt to 2upt, and I would like to add several combat bonus to enhance the effect.

1. I would like to add a +15% bonus to mixed stacks, i.e. if it contains and archer and melee.

2. Ranged attack units do 70% against both units in the stack.

I'm not sure how to code these any idea's, nor am i sure the AI would recognize the bonus

 

[SerriaFox]

Does anyone think this would a good idea? Even if you don't know how to do it?

 

[Shiggs713]

yea I like the idea. 2upt isn't over the top or anything, and the AI would probably fare decently even still.

 

[SerriaFox]

Bump, because I would really like some help with this.

 

[Dave Lawson]

I'm definitely going to be looking into doing something along these lines (stacking) but I plan to give a severe penalty to stacked units, as opposed to bonuses. Most of the technical stuff will run pretty parallel, however, and having done one, the other would be only a short step away.

In particular, I plan to divide the effective strength of every unit by the number of units in the tile. This will allow for non-combat movement (rapid deployment along a road for example) and the necessity to post pickets around a column or transport fleet.

I haven't looked too much into the details, but given that Kael's legion mod was possible, I can't see why this wouldn't be. My gut level instinct is to hook in a listener to the unit moved event, and add / remove the stacked promotion, dependent on tile occupants. The major concern is AI and UI, though. Neither would sufficiently support this sort of change until we have proper dll access.

 

[SerriaFox]

70% damage to both units isn't really a buff to the stack, since it allows a siege or archers to due 40% more damage overall.

although the 15% combined arms boost would help reduce to about 20-25% (depending on how the bonuses stack) total boost to the distant attack.