I wanted to get this out yesterday, but the day of bugfixing did some good, I think it's mostly playable now.
https://github.com/ndilday/CMTest/releases/tag/v0.4.0Additions this time around:
- ugly blue squad rectangles replaced with slightly-less-ugly man-circles that you can hover over.
- your fleet actually functions now, with the ability to move squads or whole units onto given ships, and send sets of ships off around the sector. No more bugs on your home planet... now there are bug units on the pink planets.
- There's a little more variety in the bugs now, with Primes, Broodlords, and Hive Tyrants. I found I could take out the warrior company with my half-strength 2nd company. Leave the melee lads at home, for now, would be my strategic advice.
This should be the last pre-alpha release, unless y'all find bugs in the basic game loop that I missed. Next up will an alpha release, v0.5.0, that will mostly be about save/load logic, but that I might throw some little battle tweaks in, too, or get your apothecaries able to slap cybernetics onto the soldiers who have gotten their arms or legs blown off. (Or, more realistically, given the weapons the Tyranids use, eaten through by maggots or acid or acid maggots.)
I should probably also come up with a better name for the project than "CMTest" then, too; suggestions welcome. "Only War: The New Chapter" is my current thought, as it pays homage to what came before while also fulfilling my desire for wordplay.