One fine day in the middle of the night, Versif
<Wlist@pekan.demon.co.uk> got up to write:
>In this article Colen 'Not Colin' McAlister & The Skrills
><demandred@skrill.org> wrote
>
>>If you create the unit without wargear first, it should fit all on one
>>page. Then give the bottom unit wargear, then the second-bottom unit,
>>then the third-bottom, and so on. That's the best it gets ATM
>
>This is true, but I can't resist the siren call of just tweaking that
>retinue or whatever. I thought about this some more and realised that
>you could have the retinue as a separate entry with a requirement that a
>warboss is selected, easy enough to programme. This would reduce the
>number of items under the warboss and overcome part of the problem (cos
>I always tool up my nobz, er sorry warboss).
Hmm... no, it's 'nasty'.
Various special characters can also take Retinues as well. If I put in
"If you have a Retinue, you've got to have a Warboss" rule, that would
give an error if you had one of them without a Warboss. It could
probably be done, but it would be unclear whose retinue was whose.
I'm also planning a cunning modification to the Ork files, if I can
throw my sister off the computer long enough to do it, which requires
the parent / child relationship.
>One of the combos that I use is more dakka and shootier combined. I want
>it so that if I select this combo the single entries (and vice versa)
>are hidden. I set blasta, dakka and shootier to f,g and h respectively
>in the conflict categories and the combo to g&h so that selecting any of
>them hides the other selection, after all it can only be made shootier
>once, not twice etc. The blasta, dakka and shootier combo is set to
>f,g&h. Of course I really ought to combine this with an ammo runt for
>that cheesy reroll to overcome the blasta problem
Another combo is
>bionic bonce and 'eavy armour, this gives a 3+ save without the
>limitations of mega-armour. Both bionic bonce and 'eavy armour already
>have the conflict options set in your file so my file will work
>irrespective of the upgrade (unless major of course). The kustom
>upgrades for blasta etc. currently don't have any conflict options set
>so I have to reset them every time there is an upgrade. But as I said,
>this is much easier than having to re-enter the combos. Hope that makes
>it clear
Have you tried using the 'unit save' and 'unit load' facilities? If you
use a lot of similar units every time, they might be of help.
I'm afraid that I don't think I can make your problem 'easier' without
majorly changing the files
>>>>Restricting the armour plate choice would be easy if it was applied to
>>>>the basic cost of the vehicle. Unfortunately, if the vehicle plus all
>>>>vehicle upgrades costs more than 50 points, you use the 10pt version,
>>>>and you can't restrict items by total cost in army builder. Sorry.
>>>
>>>Ahh, but you can and I have. Well sort of
I created a third choice
>>>which makes use of the user: function so can manually set at either 5 or
>>>10 points. The dread, all the looted vehicles except the Rhino can only
>>>take the 10 point armour due to their base cost.
>>
>>That's not too bad an idea. If I can convince Rob to change something in
>>v1.4d, I'll put it in
>
>Yeah, like restrict it to a choice of set values and make it more
>obvious how it works (as in not clear initially that you have to select
>the plus button) and clear up the display of the user: function, the
>text tends to overprint the name of the option.
Indeed. Well, it shouldn't unless you're writing essays there...
>I assume from the earlier correspondence that you propose to set up
>another group that will mail out the upgrades once posted. Please let me
>know when it is up and running.
See another email...
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