March 28, 2012 Dev Diary
Ok, I guess you guys want a dev diary. Much of the changes made were to brigades, and since Dec made them I am still just beginning to understand them. So maybe writing up the naval brigade changes will help you and me ....
naval_antiair_l ... AA Cruiser Conversion (this used to be a separate tech if I am not mistaken)
naval_antiar_s ... AAW Destroyer
naval_asw ... ASW Escort Carrier air group
naval_fire_control_l ... BC fire control
naval_fire_control_s ... Fleet destroyer optimisation
naval_improved_hull_l ... Cruiser fire control
naval_improved_hull_s ... Scout destroyer
naval_mines ... Heavy submarine
naval_radar_l ... BB Fire control
naval_radar_s ... ASuW destroyer
naval_sa_l ... BC and BB secondary batteries
naval_spotter_l ... Light AAA batteries (BB/BC/CA/CV/TP)
naval_spotter_s ... ASW destroyer
naval_torpedoes_l ... Submarine Euqipment
naval_torpedoes_s ... Torpedo Destroyer
b_u1 ... Escort Carrier Air Group
b_u2 ... Capital Ship Design (enables certain Capital Ship features for existing/dormant units)
b_u3 ... Cruiser Design (like b_u2, just for cruisers)
b_u16 ... Large Submarine Equipment
b_u17 ... 610 mm Torpedo Destroyer
You can guess that b_u4 to b_u15 are used for other brigades we´ll cover later, though some of them are the air brigades already covered.
So you see that now you can build seven types of destroyer:
AAW, Fleet, Scout, ASuW, ASW, Torpedo and 610 mm Torpedo (JAP only)
And you can attach AA batteries to Carriers and Transports
And you have two different specialisations for Escort Carrier Air Groups
And a battleship can have four attachments in CORE
You may also realise why Dec has spent several weeks modifying the attachment preference and research AI, because also the AI should know when to build and how to use those attachments.
As an extra, let´s work through b_u2 (BB/BC systems):
models 0 to 2 are 1910, 1920 and 1930 type BB/BC (non buildable, but for existing units)
model 6 is "Commerce Raider"
model 8 is "Large Battleship" (ITA: Vittorio Veneto)
model 10 is "Fast Batthelship" (ENG: Queen Elisabeth)
model 12 is "Heavy Armour" (GER: Scharnhorst)
model 16 is "Heavy Armament" (USA: New York)
model 20 is "Improved Fast Battleship" ( USA: Iowa )
model 24 is "Improved Heavy Armament" ( USA: Montana )
And here is a screenshot of the naval tech tree. No basic changes, just some rearrangement and clarification:
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