02Ariake-4 is uploaded. Changes and comments follow:
Changes:
• Beefed up some important objective towns.
• I hate side-by-side communities. So I told Karijuku and Yakose to "Get separated!" (I moved Yakose one hex south.) There was no room to adjust Okubo and Tabukino, though, so I left them as twin villages.
• Also moved and consolidated Hitotsumatsu to a key nearby intersection.
• Changed Shibushi back to Ariake.
• Rearranged primary and secondary objectives.
• Added two coastal guns in the west, where they seemed appropriate.
• Moved two coastal guns in the east (one was on a road, the other was two hexes away from the coast).
• Since you pointed to the coastal gun locations, which is reasonable, I illuminated them all.
• Placed a concrete bunker to represent the barracks.
• Rearranged supply, applying 40 to all primary and 20 to secondary objectives. Also 20 for Mount Sakurajima and the barracks.
• Cleared away some escarpments around Mount Sakurajima to make it a bit more accessible.
• Made taking Mount Sakurajima another secondary objective.
• Added a few enemy units on Mount Sakuragima with a separate AI team. Placed a regular bunker atop the mountain.
• Added one more airstrip. Reason: I am anal. It comes with my package. You had nine airstrips, and 10 is the goal for three other objectives, so I made this one 10 as well. Since you did NOT point to these units, which makes sense — they could be moved around IRL — I did not illuminate them. I added a statement in the objective that the player has to find them.
• I took the naval mines out of AI Team 1. I reassigned this slot to "Static Defense." 10 coastal guns plus two bunkers = 12 units in this team so far.
• Made the "Airborne option" mission completed from start, else a win would not be possible.
• Made the "Do not lose any carriers" also completed from start, only to be failed.
• Provided for the usual "When these primary victory points are taken, extra time will be allowed for the completion of secondary objectives."
• The usual scenario description, briefings, outcome statements, and a couple of popup messages.
Comments:
• Clever mechanism for airborne deployment. Just one quibble: You designate "LZ1" but in addition to the game's built-in random drop, you scatter the spawns over what I would estimate as a 10 kilometer span. Is it realistic to miss a drop zone by this amount of distance? Also, there may be enemy units in the further areas. Now, the player could adjust for this, flying to open areas, of course. Is this what you intend?
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• I programmed the Allied carriers to undeploy at the beginning of next turn if one of them is lost. That includes core carriers; I don't know if it will work, either, but undeploy sounds like the best bet. I avoided making any ports to prevent the player from redeploying them. The aircraft planes seem to have exit hexes; I don't know if you made them re-enterable. I do see that you have Off-Map air supply activated for the Allies, so in this case, the planes will not run out of fuel and crash once the carriers are gone.
• You mention "Each airstrip destroyed means one less source of Kamikaze spawns," but I see no associated triggers. Let me know what you want done and I will attempt to accomplish it in the next pass of this scenario.
• I know you have not finished placing Jap units on the map. Or have you? In my opinion, there is too much unoccupied space and too few Japanese. Add/spread them around, assign them to teams, and let me know what you want to do with them and I will script accordingly in the next pass of this scenario.
• As you deal with enemy units, spare a thought for defending primary and secondary objectives, coastal guns, and airstrips. Also, AA guns, bunkers, foxholes.
• Also, don't forget about lunge miners and volunteer fighters as we enter the main islands. They don't do much offensively, but they're good for colour.
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