KaM Fighting system analyses

[Krom]

Earlier you said that range depends on direction (+/- 1 tile) is that true for Towers?

@Harold: Circle range is a must-have

[Humbelum]

Earlier you said that range depends on direction (+/- 1 tile) is that true for Towers?

You mean what I noticed as a bug in KaM? Well if you look at the tower picture you see that there is one tile more to the right. Bowmen&etc have a one tile larger range if they look to the leftside. But the range of bowmen&etc should be always the same in remake, I hope you didnt mention that

@harold
I think using the terrain in battle situations makes KaM more interessting. Maybe we have to change a few singleplayer missions. For example it improves TSK mission 19 where the enemys crossbowmen standing on a wall.

You could made an option to enable/disable different range.


@Troop range

[Krom]

This is very interesting!
One thing for sure - it's used to speed up calculations (only 1 of 10 units scans in radius for enemies, and this is quite costly calculation).

[Humbelum]

Makes sense.

I tried to get the number of bowmen on the left/right side of the platoon leader which will start shooting if there is something in range. What I get was a strange bug in KaM...



If there are more then 9 bowmen in a row(4 next to the leader on each side) the attack-range is different...

On my screenshot are 40 crossbow in a row and nobody starts shooting.

If there were less than 30 they started shooting but the attack range field was very small.

If there are just 9 crossbows the attackrange works fine(street=start attack, field=keep fire but dont start attack)

This must be a bug because it doesnt make sense.

Maybe we can solve this problem like this:
1. every 5th unit in the first row is a "platoon leader" which scans the area
2. All of the bowmen in range start shooting

[Krom]

Now this is funny - such a weird bug noone met before!
Perhaps squad can start shooting only if all front-line members can hit the target?

P.S. We will try to make each bowman to look for the enemy, cos there might be formations (deliberate or accidential) where single units are standing far from each other.

[JBSnorro]

I actually had noticed this before, and in TKE I also have implemented that all longrangeplatoon members search for enemies, not just the platoonleader.

I don't think the rule is that all frontline bowmen must have the target in reach, because if you'd make the platoon ever more wider, eventually no tiles would be in reach of all of the frontline bowmen. And obviously there is a much more sound reason from the perspective of the programmer of KaM. He programmed in 1996, where CPU cycles were very valuable. The programmer almost certainly considered it too costly to check for enemies for each seperate platoonmember, instead of per platoon.