Question Are negative VP costs possible?

RetLT · #1 July 20th, 2018, 10:00 PM

I have seen a few scenarios where the human player is told not to shoot at civilian units but does not seem to suffer a penalty for doing so.

Is there a way to assign a negative VP cost to these units? This would penalize the player for destroying them and would make it a challenge to drive them away without destroying them.

DRG · #2 July 20th, 2018, 10:24 PM

The short answer is no

Imp · #3 July 21st, 2018, 07:43 AM

They are normally on your side cannot remember one when they are not. They take damage you lose points and you cannot target them directly

Suhiir · #4 July 21st, 2018, 10:52 AM

I have a scenario where I used reverse Polish logic because I wanted civilian casualties to count against the player.

What I did was use the editor to make all the enemy combat units zero cost/value and increase the cost/value of civilian units. Also I used only a single victory hex (so the AI knows where to go) with a zero value. Then made it clear as I could in the scenario notes you "won" this battle by losing (i.e. having the lowest possible score).

I can't say as it work "well" ... but it works.

Mobhack · #5 July 21st, 2018, 02:32 PM

I suppose it might be possible for one side to score negative - in that case the other gets a decisive most likely. One side may give away artillery overspend.

Though I am thinking of n ot charging overspend if it is a scenario (not a campaign though, as the user gets to buy troops in a campaign and we dont want him overdoing the srty there).

Suhiir · #6 July 21st, 2018, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Though I am thinking of n ot charging overspend if it is a scenario (not a campaign though, as the user gets to buy troops in a campaign and we dont want him overdoing the srty there).

I'd appreciate that.
Makes it difficult to do some scenarios, US in Vietnam for instance, or a Soviet style assault.