Fields Setup

The Field Settings are the variables that control which models are available to which countries at which fields in the arena. They also set which country owns each field. The Field Settings may be changed by Players in Player created arenas, CM's (Campaign Managers) in the Special Events Arena and in offline play. To open them, click Fields in the Arena Setup menu.

The screen has two parts: the Fields panel on the left, where you pick a field, and the Planes panel on the right, where you pick a plane. Each change is sent to the arena as soon as you click.

Fields

• Show: chooses which fields are listed: All, Air, Vehicle, Port, Carrier, Battle Ship, or only the fields owned by Bishop, Knight or Rook.
• The fields list shows each field with the owning country icon, the field type and the field number. Field types are "A" for an airfield, "V" for a vehicle field, "P" for a port, "C" for a carrier and "B" for a battle ship. Click a field to select it. Fields shown in green have the plane selected in the Planes list enabled for the country that owns the field.
• Change plane settings for: the Bishops, Knights and Rooks check boxes choose which countries the enable and disable buttons work on. All three are checked when the screen opens. Uncheck a country to leave its settings as they are.
• Enable All Planes and Disable All Planes enable or disable every plane and vehicle at the selected field for the checked countries.

Original Country and Current Country

• Original Country (Bishops, Knights, Rooks) sets the country that owns the selected field at load time.
• Current Country (Bishops, Knights, Rooks) changes the country that owns the selected field right now.
• Enable Plane and Disable Plane enable or disable the plane selected in the Planes list at the selected field, for the checked countries.

Planes

• The planes list shows the name of each plane with an "X" in the country icon column to indicate if the plane is enabled for a country at the selected field. Click a plane to select it.
• Enable At All Fields and Disable At All Fields enable or disable the selected plane at all fields in the fields list, for the checked countries. Only the fields that the Show: box lists are changed.
• Enable AI Free For All: when checked, the selected plane can be used by the AI planes in a match play free for all. Only fighters and bombers are used.
• Save saves the field and plane settings to the arena's current set of tables.
• Standard Setup loads the default setup for all fields. It is based on the field type and the model type.
• Close closes both panels.

For example, to enable the Ostwind at all vehicle fields, select Vehicle from the Show: drop-down box to list all vehicle fields in the fields list. Select the Ostwind from the planes list and click Enable At All Fields to enable the Ostwind at all vehicle fields.

When the Field Settings are opened with the Fields & Planes button of the offline Arena Tables screen, the Save button is named OK and only closes the screen, and there is no Close button.