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I'd recommend making a copy of the ini, and then look at it via a text editor...
most of the things you can change are pretty clear.

you can allow the enemy to get reinforcements from any nearby sectors (or city sectors only if you wish)

also you can modify the max number of enemies in a specific group...
the queens troops pool..

you can make your mercs gain attributes slower.. and many many more
actually, most of the things you wish to change, are in the ini... just read through it patiently..

sadly, i don't know if its possible to make that escalation in the war... it gets harder pretty linear (bar the counterattack)

[Updated on: Mon, 12 March 2012 14:38] by Moderator

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Editing the ini file is relatively simple in a text editor, but it's absolutely cake with the editor that comes with 1.13. Making a backup copy of your ini file before you edit it is a solid recommendation, as always, but the editor makes it pretty impossible to break your game.

Go to your JA2 install directory, and open the INI Editor executable that you will find there.

Once it loads, all you do is open the folders on the left, and click on things to see what options there are. The right hand side of the editor gives you a description on what an option can do, and allows you to make changes.

Once you finish, you just click save, and... well, actually you can launch the game right from the editor, or you can close it and start the game in your regular way.

As for recommendations, I play too many different types of campaigns to really be able to recommend any one option directly, outside of what ini options that I play with.

Recruitment settings:
-I've increased my IMP starting points to 600, and I've raised the max attribute cap to 95. I generally give them max wisdom, and other traits quite a bit lower (but they do learn fast).

Financial settings:
-I always play with the option that enables me to sell items from the sector inventory screen.
-Also see strategic event settings, below.

Tactical Interface settings:
-I play with all hotkeys enabled, like the sunglasses/goggles swap and the one that lets you unload/un-attach all items in the sector.
-I do enable the militia to show me enemies that they've spotted.
-Allow lazy civilians is a must.
-Camouflage mercenary portraits are pretty cool.

Tactical Difficulty settings:
-Reinforcements arrive with 0 AP, true for both enemies and militia

Tactical Suppression Fire settings:
-Overall effectiveness set to 200, for explosives as well.

Strategic Event settings:
-Drassen Counter Attack is always set to on.
-Crepitus disabled... I don't find the battles in the tunnel to be very interesting or fun. I do like the battles in the mines and when the Crepitus enter the town, but I don't find the tradeoff to be worth it.
-Which mine shuts down: I play around with this and the overall financial settings a lot, depending on the feel of each campaign that I play. When I play with drop all on, I often set the mines to only give 80% income, or I schedule an extra mine to close (which actually makes a big difference on your strategic choices, which is pretty fun).

Strategic Gameplay settings:
-Allow reinforcements, in or out of cities, for both enemies and militia.
-Humvee offroad, definitely.
-Vehicle inventory for certain.
-Allow skyrider to land in a hot LZ, yes.
-No enemy detection without recon yes or no, depending on the campaign, again.

Bobby Ray settings:
-No chance of shipment loss. I find it annoying to deal with the thief, and there's no "insurance" option to pay extra for guaranteed delivery, either.

Item Property settings:
-Explosives damage up to 200. I found before that grenades didn't properly kill enemies the way I felt that they should.

Strategic Enemy AI:
-This is the other thing that most impacts each campaign that I start, besides the financial settings. Too many options to specify, but in general I do a lot of tweaking. I generally keep two campaigns going on a given computer at a time, and since you can set things differently for difficulty settings, the campaigns are almost always on different difficulties. As a result of this, whatever difficulty I play on no longer has the same meaning as what someone might be used to.
-In general, I'm between Expert and Insane when determining numbers of troops, and between Experienced and Expert when determining how "tough" the enemy is (how easily they notice you in an adjacent sector, percentage of elites, AP bonuses that they might get, etc.)
-Basically I found the Expert difficulty too easy, but I found Insane too tedious/difficult to slug through, so I've found various compromises between the two. My campaigns generally get harder as I become a better player.

MilitiaTraining/Roaming MilitiaTraining/Movement settings:
-Enable veteran training set to on, but I only ever train enough veterans to have a couple in each city sector. Veterans are TOUGH, even compared to elites, so if you train an entire sector full of them, basically that sector is safe forever.
-Mobile militia training is on, and restrict roaming is set to sectors that I've explored. I don't want roaming militia to win the war for me.

[Updated on: Mon, 12 March 2012 18:55] by Moderator

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Open ini , look for Queen , alter values upwards , SAVE ini , then play .
Alter to suit as desired .

Did I say save ini ? Wont change otherwise ....

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