Re: Counterfire

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

Elijah Meeks wrote:

> There was some discussion of giving units the ability
> to do counterbattery work (A unit fires and then
> another unit with enough ACP and in range returns
> fire).  I'd love to see a 'counterfire' table and an
> 'overwatch' table, which would be something akin to
> counterfire, except that the responding unit would
> actually fire first with effects (Unit destruction,
> ACP-to-defend) that may cancel the initiated attack.
>
> So how much of a pipe dream is this?

Well, I think it is primarily an issue of finding time to explore these 
ideas further and write some code. As far as the overwatch concept was 
concerned, this could probably best implemented in terms of the existing 
ZOC, or perhaps some new type of zone, maybe a zone of overwatch (ZOO?), 
which would have a max range defined by a table, but would also be 
limited by the unit's vision range.

Currently, I am working on an extension of the help system, which allows 
help files to be automatically generated for every game in the Xconq 
games library. The help files can be produced in either plain text or 
HTML format. I am also making the framework generic, so that support for 
other formats can easily be added in the future. I still have a lot of 
work to do on this, so I will probably be occupied with it for the next 
few weeks. When I finish, I will put all the HTML help files for all the 
games in the library on the Xconq Web site.

Eric