So we are using half a BE now? Or am I misreading. I suspect that when I look through your current changes all will be made clear!
I do admit I like the ability to store units equipment in an Armory. Have you worked out how much stored equipment will cost in starting PP when making a Nation? Also, a player may want to start off with several pretrained BE for a particular unit template.
Þórgrímr wrote:
Here are two examples of the New Construction and Training Routine For Army Units:
The Terran player determines that he needs more Equipment BE's to train more Mechanized Infantry Battalions. So the player begins to build the equipment he needs. First, he decides to use Infantry Fighting Vehicles as the equipment. Although IFV's are a bit more expensive than APC's, their increased combat capabilities makes them more than just battle taxi's. He knows the cost is 55 WU's and 5 IUU's per equipment point. However, this is not enough for his plans so he adds a +1 Anti-Tank Weapons Cap (TOW ATGM) to his design. So each IFV Equipment Point with the +1 Cap has a cost of 57 WU’s and an IUU cost of 7 and a construction time of 18 weeks.
The player now determines he wants to train a Mechanized Infantry Battalion with IFV's. He begins by finding the Mechanized Infantry training time in the above list, which is 18 weeks. Then the player divides his Eng Tech level by two, rounded up, which ends up as 4. Then he adds 3 weeks for the +1 Anti-Tank Weapons cap. The time needed for training is 25 weeks.
The cost to train the new Battalion is 10 WU's, .5 of an Active, or Reservist Manpower BE, and 1 Equipment Point of IFV's from the Manpower and Equipment Pools, and he assigns it to the 43rd Mechanized Infantry Training Battalion, which has a training slot remaining to be able train the new unit. His Unit Control Sheet would look like the following:
Mechanized Infantry Battalion
10wu/7iuu/.5 A BE/1 IFV EP/Bn
AR 4/5 - DR 4/5
Industrial Upkeep: .1, Wealth Upkeep: .1, Fuel Upkeep: .1
TL7 +1 Anti-Tank Weapons (TOW ATGM)
As an addendum, equipment can be stored once produced, in the new Armory Fac.
Cheers, Thor