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Andy Meter, Hold Possition, Groups
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kayaker
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Joined: 20 Apr 2004
Posts: 5
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:38 am  Post subject: Andy Meter, Hold Possition, Groups

I find that I use Andy in long difficult missions to hold a possition while I manage some other troops. Since Andy has a mind of his own he can drift and wander away from where I want him and get killed. I'd like to see an "Andy Meter" at the top of the screen. Just a bar that shows his life. It would be nice if it flashed on yellow, and when tapped if it would take you to Andy and select him for speedy extrication.

I'd also like to see the ability to lock Andy and other armies to a certain location. It's better to place a group in front of a bottle neck and have many shooting the one that comes through than the other way arround. It seems that armies drift into these positions and get into a situation where they are going through one at a time.

Here! Here! for groupings!
Verdagon
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 1047
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:36 am  

All who like this idea say I!

I
dws90
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Joined: 03 Mar 2004
Posts: 118
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:49 pm  

The problem would be for user-authored missions that contain more then one ANDY. Then it would get very confusing.
UGMC
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Joined: 03 Jun 2004
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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:09 am  

Instead of an "Andy Meter", I think it would be better to have the computer tell you something like "group one under attack" (assuming group one is Andy). It would work out that way, but first WI needs to make the game able to assign groups.