Of course, a host of minor changes accompany the officer corps, including new alerts, better resource tooltips, and adding some of this information into intel ledgers for opponent countries.Īnd now, on to a topic that is sure not to evoke strong opinions from anybody here: the AI.ĭuring the development of La Resistance, work was begun on adding additional tools through an imgui that allow modders and users to see various internal data.

While the national preferred tactic can be switched out for a cost, selecting a preferred tactic for your commanders and field marshals is something that remains a permanent choice, representing their adherence to a particular doctrinal theory. This allows you to set a national, field marshal, and commander-level preferred tactic, which will weight the chances of picking said tactic in a combat situation.

Lastly, we are introducing the preferred tactics weighting system. To add to the choices, doctrines now cost experience rather than being something you spend a research line on:Ĭharacters promoted to advisory duties this way will continue to advance their advisory rank as their commander level increases - a highly experienced field commander will grow from specialist to genius over the course of their career.

In addition to adding a flat command power allocation (reduction of max command power) which is reduced by high advisor ranks, political power costs are raised by having a higher rank advisor.īranch advisors now grant daily experience gain, meaning stacking your command cadre well is vitally important to the pre-war development of your military. We decided during the officer corps development process, to make a bigger deal out of the advisor ‘level’ (specialist, expert, genius) that all non-theorist advisors possess. The manner in which you’ll appoint advisors has changed a bit. This kind of change is the sort of thing that comes up during playtesting - while it made sense to collect similar things together, there was no good reason to change the player’s flow expectations. This image represents a near-final take on what the office corps screen will look like.Īs you can see, the branch chiefs, theorist, and military high command have found their way to the officer corps screen, though for ease of access you may still view and appoint them in the country overview screen like before.

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