Regions and Roads

[Audie Murphy]

One thing which is unique for NCP is regions instead of the usual hexes or tiles. (Close Combat has a similar system but there strategy is almost non-existent.)

For a newcomer from the hexed wargames world, this means two things:

1. How to estimate the time of move for a corps? Is there a way to see the time before actually moving the unit?
2. Choice of roads. A corps standing in Landau gets an order to move to Stuttgart. What would a commander do in reality? He would cross the river and move on. The game unit may as well go to Freiburg and march through the Tubingen forests losing another week...

[Pocus]

Please post in the general forum, not the technical one

(redirection done)

[Chris38]

The info appearing when hovering the mouse on a region indicates the time necessary to enter this region. It allows to estimate the duration of moves before planning them. This duration is also shown near the planned stack position, and on the icons appearing on the regions crossed along the move. (reading your post a second time, it appears to me that i am not sure it's really what you want to know Please explain further if that's the case)

To make moves overriding the "auto-routing" choice, just hold CTRL key while releasing the stack on its destination.

[Adlertag]

One thing which is unique for NCP is regions instead of the usual hexes or tiles. (Close Combat has a similar system but there strategy is almost non-existent.)

For a newcomer from the hexed wargames world, this means two things:

1. How to estimate the time of move for a corps? Is there a way to see the time before actually moving the unit?
2. Choice of roads. A corps standing in Landau gets an order to move to Stuttgart. What would a commander do in reality? He would cross the river and move on. The game unit may as well go to Freiburg and march through the Tubingen forests losing another week...

Greetings,
1.When a force is selected, you can press the "Maj" key and see the type of the links all around it (brown : ground, blue :river...).
And if you pass the mouse cursor over a region, the tooltip indicates the estimated number of days the force will take to travel to that region (along with the other military informations).
2. I think we discussed it already and concluded that the AI is reluctant to river and often chooses another way (maybe because of the malus you'll have in combat, if any occurs, by crossing the river). In such cases, you'll have to manually select your own path to bypass AI proposition (CRTL key as Chris38 said).

Edit :Just see Chris38 answered, no matter...

[ltr213]

You can also see the number of days required to make the move displayed on the game map after you have 'dropped' the moving units.

If you wish to change your route, you can use the Delete key to remove movement 'legs' region by region.

You can also redo the entire move by dropping the Force in its starting location.

There is no penalty for changing your mind. You can change movement routes as many times as you like--until you press the End Turn button.

Laurence