Celebration, one capital issue going to history.

[Birken]

To me logical will be cavalry to motorised.

Did to us too.

I would also include Light Armor and Mech. Both seem logical and historical.

Yes.

Hopefully light armor can go to medium armor too-- fingers crossed.

Relax those hands.

This I hope developers considdered in the first place, or did they,since medium armor is standard and by the end of war whenever possible armoured divisions were brought to medium standard.

And some medium armor units were sometimes(Germans in the first place) transformed to heavy armor to exploit expirience and excellence of best crews(and to preserve those skilled crews better in massive tanks).

Medium can go to heavy and heavy to super heavy also.

Unit upgrades are simple to script, so in the unlikely event that not everyone is completely satisfied with the upgrades we have chosen as default, it's just a text edit away.

 

[Birken]

So something as simple as "can be upgraded to:..." written in unit txt file?

EDIT: I like that option mainly for Germany. You start with decent number of divisions that are vanilla inf and I don't have need for so many of them. Yes, I can just disband them and build new MOT divisions, but that would be unnecesarily expensive. At least I hope that the upgrade takes less IC then whole new divison...

	upgrade = 
	{
		base = cavalry_brigade
		target = light_armor_brigade
	}

Also, if unit a can upgrade into b and b into c, then a will also be able to upgrade directly into c.
It's just a matter of defining the upgrade graph connections.

You get a reduction on time and IC based on the time and IC spent on building the original unit.


EDIT: Upgrades are defined in a new text file ( common/unit_upgrades.txt )

 

[Birken]

Great! Will it work on all units? Land, naval and air?

SF only allows land unit upgrades. It should be possible to mod in naval or air upgrades though. Maybe even land -> naval or air -> land if you feel the urge for stranger upgrades, can't guarantee that it will be stable though...
My guess is that you'll just have to manually deploy the ship if going land -> naval, but I don't think it's been tested.

 

[Birken]

Ok, let's assume you're upgrading a MOT to MECH.

Are the trucks of the original unit wasted ot they go in some kind of resource pool in order to be used later as a reinforcement?

They're abstracted away and you get an IC reduction for the new unit instead.

 

[Darkrenown]

Don't think so. Although I suppose you could mod the org loss to be a lot higher, that way units strat redeployed a long way wouldn't be much use on the front for a while.