Deploying and commanders

[fybyyn]

Greetings and first of all congratulate you for your work making known the way to edit, it has been of great help to me.
however I have two problems and I was wondering if you could help me.

First, to create a deployment area, I can't create one where to put the units

And second, I can't get the generals to have assigned units either, they simply all command everything!

How can I allow the option to assign troops to a general and deploy units?

Thank you very much

[Paul59]

First, to create a deployment area, I can't create one where to put the units

I have never used a deployment zone for a FOG2 scenario, it's not something we use for official Epic battles, so I am no expert on it!

Basically, you need to click on this button:



Clicking it once will give both armies a deployment phase (I think?).

However, there will be no deployment zone, so the player will be able to deploy his units anywhere on the map!

To implement a deployment zone, you have to use a scenario.bsf file, see my guide here:

https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81190

Open the file in Notepad++, and near the top you will see these lines of script:



You need to delete the sets of back slashes (//) at the start of the 2 lines, so that it looks like this:



The two lines will turn black in Notepad++.

This will give you a generic deployment zone. It is possible to define the exact size of the deployment zone in the .bsf file, but I don't know how to do that.

And second, I can't get the generals to have assigned units either, they simply all command everything!

How can I allow the option to assign troops to a general and deploy units?

This could be one of two things:

1) All your generals are CinCs. You need to change each generals' general type using the arrows here:



Or

2) You have not assigned the units to teams. The units have to be grouped into teams, then any sub or allied general assigned to that team will only command the units in the team. See my guide on assigning teams here:

https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80250


cheers


Paul

[fybyyn]

ok, thank you very much, i tried it and it works!!