this is a sequel to the Gizmotron user-mod for Axis and Allies. featuring new types of weather & terrain. new, larger territory maps in skirmish mode. new experience ranks and bonuses (regiments improve up to 2000 exp points). 100+ special ops, new water-based units like cruisers and submarines (with torpedo attacks). nations included are Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Communist China, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India (Allied), Indian National Army (Axis), Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mongolia, Nationalist China, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic (Axis), South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the United States, Yugsolavia, and the Yugoslav Partisans more nations and territories available for WW2 mode, see images for details.
theharkonnen and I decided that with all of the new naval units getting put into place that we should have merchant vessels too. this screenshot shows American merchant vessels getting blasted by a Japanese cruiser and destroyer near Guadalcanal.
Do the merchant ships in this fill a role or are they just for show?
one of the objectives for Japan will be to search out and destroy allied transport ships. although this feature has yet to be fully integrated-- these ships will provide ammo, money, and oil for the side that has them. so destroying enemy transports will weaken their economy. hopefully I can make it so that if players destroy they these merchant ships they'll get money just as they would from destroying ammo or oil depots.
Maybe the transports could be used to deploy units, instead of the battleships.
Do Naval units have AI now? not just sitting there waiting for us?
right now they sit there and do nothing. I can make them more active in the SP campaigns because I've learned enough about map-planning and triggers to get them into action.
would have to take another serious look at the AI again to see if I can get them to handle water-based units differently.
we're still working on the water-based units. we'll have to try some things out.