Infantry Squads And Population

Jump back to quoted post13 Sep 2015, 10:09 AMCarlos Danger

Minor suggestion, but I'd like to see the way that population is calculated for infantry squads changed. Right now, each individual soldier uses up a certain amount of population (say 1.75). This creates a couple of problems when your army approaches the population limit of 100. First, you can have instances where you can't fully reinforce an infantry squad, because doing so would put you over the population limit. Second, you can have an issue where, for example, you're using 92.5 population and therefore cannot buy a unit costing 8 population.

Therefore I'd like to suggest that the population cost of infantry be calculated on a per-squad rather than per-entity basis. This would mean that a Grenadier squad, for example, would still use 7 population up even if only two of its members are actually alive. This minor change would solve both the issues listed above.

Jump back to quoted post13 Sep 2015, 10:20 AMAerohank

Thay would mean you have to lose squads in the lategame if you are near your pop cap and want to build a tank. For example, if I was at 93 pop and wanted to get a su76, I would have to lose a full squad. I much prefer the current system, where I would only need to lose 1 model.

Jump back to quoted post13 Sep 2015, 10:36 AMCruzz

Or instead of messing everything up they could just make the UI show the fractional part.

Jump back to quoted post13 Sep 2015, 10:23 AMDon'tKnow

This would solve "your" pop cap problem but would cut your mp income (1,5 mp per pop),for example you have 4 grens with only 1 member left ,you would still lose 28*1,5=42 mp per minute instead of
only 9 mp.