RE: Me Back

Welcome back and thanks for the ideas!

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From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of John Atkinson
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 19:21
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Me Back

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I had two notions for the Dirtside II terrain.	First,
IV lines (Intervisibility lines).  These are small
folds not large enough to really justify rating as a
hill, but which provide places to move concealed.  My
suggestion would be to represent by using pieces of
yarn in the same color as the majority of the terrain
(green or sand, usually).  Platoons adjacent to the
yarn can choose to be fully concealed, hull down, or
turret down and count as this vs. all unit on the same
level or one level higher which trace line of sight
through the IV line.

Second is Spider Trails.  These are either through
forests or mountains (I'm assuming that mountain
terrain is not necessarily mountains as defined by
geographers but slopes too steep to drive on).	They
count as poor terrain for every mobility type.
However, the force or forces unfamilliar with the
terrain should have no idea where exactally any given
trail entrance leads--whether to a dead end, or
straight across, or through a series of switchbacks.
The mechanism is left to the imagination.

[snip]

John