Danish

Like Luke said, "I'm endangering the mission". Jedi can smell their kind from a mile.

I decided to tweak the GenCore shield energy to give assualting ships more of a chance. The way I figured was to make it 16. This way two victories with two bombers each could just crack this nut. A very doable thing if you happen on two VSD's in the same sector. Building bombers and dragging a victory to the relevant fleet's easier than building one right where you need it. So I planned to go on a rampage bombing all those pesky loner GenCores. But there was a nuance the emperor hadn't foreseen. The dreaded Y-wing. What's it for anyway you ask. This: the rebels gathered an escort carrier with 3 Y-wings(6 bomb value), 3 Xings(3 b-value), dreadnought with an x-wing escort(3 b-value) and 5 corvettes(5 b-value) for a total fleet bombardment value of 17. Then they attacked one of my systems with a shield and 8 army regs. Remember the shield energy is now 16. The rebel fleet just had an edge. So they bombard me and wadda'ya know they got an army reg! Next day another bombardment and another regiment bit the dust. I don't know about you guys but I like this sort of cat and mouse. It revitalizes the game experience and lets me appreciate where all the programming effort into making the AI went. It seems the AI can calculate just how much punch it needs in a fleet to crack open a tough nut, in this case a shielded planet.

I just edited Thrawn's leadership to 200. With the emperor's throne effect that becomes 300. At this leadership I discovered a subtle yet intriguing effect. Actually the rebels had attacked Coruscant. With their @!&*ed fighters they blew away my star destroyer and with no planetary defenses I was literally caught with my pants down! So they assaulted me and I'd forgot to assign a general. Five of my six stormies and a few army regs were slaughtered. Now the way the AI assaults you is once per day. Then it repeats the next day. So I decided to take a look at what was left. One measly stormtrooper regiment. After that his highness was off to boot camp. And then I saw Thrawn sitting around doing nothing. I had nothing to lose so I made him general. Now the troop stats are the same as vanilla rebellion both for the rebels and the imps. Next turn general Thrawn's leadership proved so effective that an entire buttload of assaulting troops met their maker. I mean five rebel armies and three fleet regs were pulverized by a measly storm reg. Now that's quality leadership. Like I said there were no system defenses other than the lone stormy. Then the rebels repeated this stunt again and again, every time attacking with 8+ regs and the lone stormy duked it out and lived to tell the tale. I didn't have any training facilities and wasn't in a position to train more troops. I actually lasted 200+ days as the rebels relentlessly assaulted Coruscant to no avail. Bless that Thrawn and his outstanding leadership. Coruscant would've been sacked without it. If you have an exact formula of how leadership affects the three roles of admiral, general and commander feel free to post it.

One humble suggestion for any future version of rebed. Please use unsigned longs instead of uint when the data fields are checked. Rebelliion is compatible with the higher values. I've checked. It matters a lot to me. Still just a suggestion though.

What happens if you blow Coruscant up?!

One humble suggestion is to please use unsigned long for the ship hitpoints and shields and weapons and other stats instead of int. The reason behind this is that personally I prefer an ISD to be able to stand up to three bulk cruisers and with the stats it currently has it gets smashed if the trio gang up on it. I solve this by making the shielding ten times as powerful. But eventually I reach the upper limit of 32K. If it is at all convenient please use ulong. Also if someone could alter RebEd to set the cap for stats at 2-4 billion it'd be great. I can confirm that Rebellion supports it and that the values upto 4 billion work just fine.