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Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: MWL on December 13, 2006, 01:28:49 PM

Greetings,

  Playing around with the lines of advance concept.  I know that, right now, small maps won't be used as such, but I would like some comments on the concept for the small map below.

  The white lines are connecting lines between bases.  The yellow, red and blue lines are the initial connecting lines between two opposing countries.  Of course they work both ways.

  The yellow arrows are the vehicle spawn lines - generally they follow the connecting white lines.

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Comments?

Regards,

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: Denholm on December 14, 2006, 08:42:08 AM

Yeah, next time use a reliable host (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/) for those pictures, the one you have now seems to be slow, and make sure their in ".jpg" format to reduce file size and make loading the images a breeze. Other than that, I like the layout. Then again I'm not an MA player and I wouldn't be able to tell you if it's good or not.

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: NHawk on December 15, 2006, 09:20:59 AM

That's the existing Baltic MA map. I'm not sure what he's thinking, but you can't edit MA maps.

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: MWL on December 20, 2006, 01:12:58 AM

Greetings,

  Ya, it's an existing map.   Just looking for a thought process.  What would you think about the links if it comes into being?

  Personally, I like the limitations on lines of advance, but I don't know if it will happen now.

Regards,

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: hitech on December 20, 2006, 11:12:43 AM

btw to add the lines using the Terrain Editor, turn on the lines by using right click on the map.

Then shift and ctrl right click and drag to link 2 bases. I forget if shift is double link or ctrl is double link.

To delete the links use the menu item air field order.

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: Denholm on December 20, 2006, 11:52:02 AM

Hitech, isn't shift / ctrl + right-click for camera movement? Or is there a certain section that is designated to perform these actions?

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: hitech on December 20, 2006, 12:23:02 PM

Click On the navigation map (lower right hand coner), not the terrain window.

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: NHawk on December 20, 2006, 12:35:52 PM

HT.. Is capture logic currently reversed?

As in if you capture path 3 bases in the TE, are all other bases capturable and the 3 marked uncapturable.

I'm speaking for MA use.

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: Denholm on December 21, 2006, 09:53:58 AM

Quote

Originally posted by hitech
Click On the navigation map (lower right hand coner), not the terrain window.

Thanks for that info.

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: hitech on December 21, 2006, 10:00:36 AM

No  it is not reversed, but there is no way to get the first capture of the chained fields, hence they can not be captured.

HiTech

Title: Lines of Advance on a Small Map
Post by: MWL on January 19, 2007, 12:57:15 PM

Greetings,

  Okay, cool!  I gots lines!  Umm, I have to many lines...... how to delete?  Umm or read...... this time I saw how!

Regards,