Dogs of war guidance

[Cuzer 0]

Hi All

I've now reached Dogs of War and have thoroughly enjoyed the campaign and what is an excellent game. I wouldn't say I'm overly good but I'm managing to survive and I've now got to DOW

I killed the priest so I start with Napa and the defence force working together what generally is the best thing to do with High Command take it or let the AI take it? Reading lots of threads it seems split on who does what and I notice the soldiers just run off and take towns anyhow when you take the command? I did enjoy the command but didn't keep many of the NAPA guys aive on Badlands so I'm guessing I'm not much good!

When you take a town and crank up the defence level to 100% does this mean units will automatically spawn and attempt to defend the town from attack? Seems crazy you put defenses down and have to man them with members of your squad making progress with your new larger Razor team harder

I guess I'm trying to ask is it any less fun by not taking command? If I'm beaten to capturing a town by other soldiers will this spoil the mission enjoyment?

Thanks for your help, much appreciated

Cuzer

[Cuzer 0]

Any feedback guys I was hoping to start this mission tonight?

Cheers

Cuzer

[LukeB 10]

I played the mission through both ways. Taking command and also letting the AI command.

Taking command gives more options to deploy forces where you need them but letting the AI command gives more freedom to go where you want.

My fun was diminished somewhat by some bugs and re-load times but overall I really enjoyed this mission.

It did take me several tries to get right through it though.

Since updating to release 1.04 I'm playing the whole campaign through again and so far I have experienced very few bugs and so well done BI.

I'm currently playing Bitter Chill and so still have a couple of missions before I get to DOW.

I wish that BI would remove the End of Mission if a Razor Team member dies. I'm sure they had a reason for doing it this way but it isn't very realistic.

At least they should fix the AI "bug" that causes member 4 to be so valnerable to harm.

I usually leave them in a safe place and go it alone.

It kind of goes against the spirit of the Team but it seems the only way to get through the later missions without continually having to give him First Aid or restart after he dies.

Please do something about this one BI. It would be great to play all missions with the entire Razor Team.

Cheers,

Luke.

[Cuzer 0]

Luke, thanks for your feedback. I'm also replaying in 1.04 I've had a few bugs Shaftoe died in Manhattan, the troops which were meant to attack the village in Badlands never came so I had to go and find them, they then just sat on a back of the URAL whilst I put an RPG into it?????

I managed to do all of Badlands and didn't hide squad members at the base, got them involved. It's certainly better all patched up that's for sure

Cheers

Cuzer

[LukeB 10]

Hi Cuzer,

I never experienced the Shaftoe dead bug but I did find that after Manhatten if you try to go it alone and get to the extraction point under your own steam, you can only get to within about 2km of the point before the AI kill you off.

I had to revert and let NAPA put Razor team in the small car and then avoid the dangers until we met up with CDF and Badlands started.

I completed all the tasks in Badlands but the mission would not end????

I had to end it with the ENDMISSION command.

I'm now into Dogs Of War again.

It will be interesting if everything goes OK from here.

So far in 1.04 I haven't experienced any serious bugs and so it looks like BI have tried to improve the game's reliability.

I had some stinging things to say about the game before, mainly through frustration due to so many bugs and so now it is only fair that I congratulate BI for the bug fixing efforts. Well done BI.

I haven't tried the editor yet or the multi user games but I now enjoying playing much much more.

I would still like to see a proper manual though.

There must be many controls that are very difficult to master without some sort of guide. The current manual is really only enough to start playing.

But now I'm happy to say...GREAT GAME :)

Cheers,

Luke.