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[committed hero]

The first atomic bombs had a low shelf life - 48 hours after assembly, a team of specialists had to recharge the batteries powering the electronic components (and there were only seven such teams as late as 1949). Even more modern designs have a life measured in decades.

How would you do this in Test of Time? I suspect once the initial tech is researched, you can delay giving a second tech that "upgrades" the atomic bomber to a conventional plane using Leo's. If you removed the upgrading tech, could you pull this trick once more using the CityProduction trigger (as techumseh does in Sea Lion)?

 

[JPetroski]

I'd use lua to either delete the unit after a set period to convert it to a different unit after a period, or to require a "specialist" unit to arm the weapon each turn before it can be used.

 

[Patine]

I'd use lua to either delete the unit after a set period to convert it to a different unit after a period, or to require a "specialist" unit to arm the weapon each turn before it can be used.

Actually, the Atomic Bomb issue in a WW2 scenario brings up a question. When I get around to revising my old Empire of the Rising Sun (one of the very top in my priority list to do), was planning, since it's from a Japanese PoV perspective, to have the U.S. Player build "the Bomb" using the Spaceship mechanics, and start building at a certain point in 1945. However, I learned, at the time, that AI's don't like building Spaceships unless the human player starts one first, and, even so, victory is not declared by building one in a scenario that uses objectives. Do you have any suggestions, while we're on the general topic?