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There are 7 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Re: Simple problem for a simpleton(me)
From: Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister <demandred@skrill.org>
2. Re: Apothecaries / Techmarines opinions requested
From: Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister <demandred@skrill.org>
3. Re: Apothecaries / Techmarines opinions requested
From: "Jimi" <james.tubman@blueyonder.co.uk>
4. Re: Apothecaries / Techmarines opinions requested
From: Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister <demandred@skrill.org>
5. Re: Clan War (DE)
From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>
6. Re: Question regarding CD and registration
From: kryos@rocketmail.com
7. Re: Re: Question regarding CD and registration
From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:28:29 +0000
From: Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister <demandred@skrill.org>
Subject: Re: Simple problem for a simpleton(me)

One fine day in the middle of the night, boarak@hotmail.com got up to
write:

>I just downloaded wfbv6v41.ab and here's the problem. The import
>file commands seems to work fine, but I no longer have warhammer as
>an army system option. What do I do?

Upgrade your version of Army Builder to v2.1?

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:28:08 +0000
From: Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister <demandred@skrill.org>
Subject: Re: Apothecaries / Techmarines opinions requested

One fine day in the middle of the night, Jimi <james.tubman@blueyonder.c
o.uk> got up to write:

>> Do they still count as being members of the command squad, though?
>
>No, you removed them for other duties.
>
>> can you have a command squad with 2 normal marines and a couple
>> of detached characters wandering around somewhere?
>
>Yes.

Annoyance. Things will have to be Changed.

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:46:40 -0000
From: "Jimi" <james.tubman@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Apothecaries / Techmarines opinions requested

> Annoyance. Things will have to be Changed.

The current process is :-

1) select character
2) select option for command squad
3) select command squad
4) select options for apothecary, techmarine, standard bearer, vet sgt

Why not place a new option under the apothecary/techmarine entries called
'Detach From Squad'

This option will then bring up 3 extra options a) SM bike b) SM attack bike
c) jump-pack - of which, only 1 can be selected.

The options themselves are geared to a rule which checks that the relevent
squad is actually available in the army ie if I select SM bike, then AB
checks to see if I have a bike squad or attack bike squad and if I do then
the validation is ok, if not then the validation is wrong and reports this
as normal via the warning icon ('!')

So, the way I see it is thus :-

SM bike - check for bike or attack bike squad in army
SM attack bike - check for attack bike squad or attack bike in a SM bike
squad
Jump-pack - check for assault marines with jump-packs

How does this look from a datafiles programming viewpoint??


Jimi

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:01:02 +0000
From: Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister <demandred@skrill.org>
Subject: Re: Apothecaries / Techmarines opinions requested

One fine day in the middle of the night, Jimi <james.tubman@blueyonder.c
o.uk> got up to write:

>> Annoyance. Things will have to be Changed.
>
>The current process is :-
>
>1) select character
>2) select option for command squad
>3) select command squad
>4) select options for apothecary, techmarine, standard bearer, vet sgt
>
>Why not place a new option under the apothecary/techmarine entries called
>'Detach From Squad'

Yep, that's the way I'm going to do it.

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:06:12 -0800
From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>
Subject: Re: Clan War (DE)

At 03:39 PM 1/21/01 +0000, you wrote:
>At 12:43 21/01/2001 +1300, you wrote:
> >Possible fault
> >When trying to add some peasant levies to my roster AB (2.1) added a unit
> >of 10 and gave me the validation error about minimum unit size of 20 models
> >plus having to assign a leader.
> >Regardless of which I tried to do first, the program took it back to the
> >starting position of the basic 10 without a leader.
> >Tried this with several different armies with different roster limits with
> >the same result.
> >Known problem? Or perhaps players don't like a lot of peasants?
>
>That's very odd indeed. Rob, could you take a look? I'm confused Things
>appear to be selecting and deselecting with no apparent cause.

I finally got a chance to investigate this, and it looks like everything is
working fine. I'm using the latest V1.3 files, so it's possible that Colen
fixed somthing.

Another possibility is that you're using a Nikutai as the leader package
(or another package with a Leadership 1 rating). If so, then that package
is only available for up to 10 models (Leadership 1). When you exceed 10
models, the option is automatically disabled and deselected, which resets
the unit back to the normal 10 model limit. If you assign a Chui (or any
package with a Leadership of 2+), you can increase the unit size to 20
models without a problem. However, if you increase the size to 21 models
with an LP with Leadership 2, you'll exceed the limit and everything will
reset again back to 10. Granted, this is probably a little bit annoying in
hindsight, but this mechanism was put into place and THEN various rulings
were made to Daimyo Edition that resulted in the higher than normal unit
size minimums. At that point, the annoyance became an issue, but its a bit
of work to change this, and it just hasn't been dealt with yet.

Hope this helps
Rob

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 06:54:45 -0000
From: kryos@rocketmail.com
Subject: Re: Question regarding CD and registration

--- In armybuilder@y..., "Chris McMahon" <corummc@a...> wrote:

> I did have to use a backup registry recently, but the backup
> registration did not pre-date the AB install. Unistalling and
> re-installing didn't make a difference. I have since been able to
get
> it to recognize the cd, by turning the system off and restarting
with
> the cd already in the drive. This seems to work fine, but I'd
rather
> not have to restart every time I want to get into AB (which is sadly
> way too often considering the work I should be doing instead.)
> Thanks for the help and quick response.
> Chris

I just found this message because I was having the same problem. My
computer can't seem to find one of my hard drives anymore (luckily,
there's nothing I'll miss on it). After seeing no real solution, I
went into my registry and found where Army Builder looks to see which
letter the CD-ROM drive is. I changed the value to the approprite
letter, and everything works fine now.

Sorry if this solution is repetative, it doesn't show up on an
archive search for this problem.



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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:44:03 -0800
From: Rob Bowes <rob@wolflair.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Question regarding CD and registration

At 06:54 AM 1/27/01 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In armybuilder@y..., "Chris McMahon" <corummc@a...> wrote:
>
> > I did have to use a backup registry recently, but the backup
> > registration did not pre-date the AB install. Unistalling and
> > re-installing didn't make a difference. I have since been able to
>get
> > it to recognize the cd, by turning the system off and restarting
>with
> > the cd already in the drive. This seems to work fine, but I'd
>rather
> > not have to restart every time I want to get into AB (which is sadly
> > way too often considering the work I should be doing instead.)
> > Thanks for the help and quick response.
> > Chris
>
>I just found this message because I was having the same problem. My
>computer can't seem to find one of my hard drives anymore (luckily,
>there's nothing I'll miss on it). After seeing no real solution, I
>went into my registry and found where Army Builder looks to see which
>letter the CD-ROM drive is. I changed the value to the approprite
>letter, and everything works fine now.
>
>Sorry if this solution is repetative, it doesn't show up on an
>archive search for this problem.

Most people aren't comfortable editing the Registry manually, so I try not
to suggest this to anyone. <G> However, your solutoin is correct. When your
disk drive vanished from the system, the drive letter of the CD changed.
The old V1.x CDs only initialize this value during the CD install, so a
change in drive letter will "break" things (the new CDs check this every
time automatically). This is discussed on the web-site under the Product
Support section - in the page covering problems for owners of the V1.x CDs.

Thanks, Rob

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