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  1. Hey, I got a reply to my request for 1939 scenario, currently in the middle of a game! If you'd like to play SCG Gold, v. 1.04 send me an e-mail, I prefer Allied side. I'm an experienced player so can give you a run for your money. Bob.
  2. Okay, I tried AOD, the scale of the game is a marvel and I enjoyed the game engine...but the turns take longer than I can fit into my summer in Seattle schedule. An AOD turn takes 1 hour plus, sometimes 1 1/2 hours. I had SCG down pretty good, I could knock out even a deep in the war turn in 30 to 35 minutes, an early turn in 10 to 20 minutes. But what I did like about AOD was that the victory conditions were loosened, as imo SCG has a noticeable Axis bias, and imo AOD still has this. Anyway, once an SCG player got the Axis strategy down the Axis would win about 80% of the time because even an experienced Allied player could rarely achieve the challenging victory conditions against an evenly matched Axis opponent. So here's what I'm thinking. I can only fit two games of SCG Gold into my schedule and can do about 5 turns a week, but sometimes a couple each day on the weekend. The first person to send me an Axis, 1939 turn I'll fire back with an Axis first turn...but we use the AOD victory conditions. And here's the final part: It will be the total of the two games which really determines victory. If after the games have progressed it looks like we'll both have 1 point Axis victories then we'll figure out a tie braker, such as who has the most opponent cities under their control on X turn. The only option I can think of to activate in the game is to make sure to click alternative capitals, as a total surrender of German/Japan upon taking Berlin/Tokyo isn't fair to the Axis. Here's to hoping someone out there still plays SCG and for a good set of mirror games. Bob rrweeks@comcast.net
  3. Hubert, that worked! What I did was completely take the copied folder out of the Battlefront topside folder, it's many, many folders removed, not even in the same neighborhood as Battlefront. I labeled that 1.02 and tested and it worked fine. Then I installed the patch as per normal, it wanted to naturally go to the Battlefront folder. So that's the trick, you have to completely remove the older versions from the broader topside Battlefront folder. Thanks. Bob.
  4. Hubert, I'm having the same type of trouble installing the 1.03 patch as I did getting AOD to work. I get to the 1 inch line and then get a prompt about a crash or something. This is what I did: 1) Copied the entire AOD folder to a new folder, titled it 1.03 2) Saved the 1.03 patch in my standard download folder. 3) Tried to run the patch by directing to the new folder, got all the way to "Finish" and then got a prompt about a crash file. 4) Instead copied the patch into the new folder and tried it that way, same, all the way to "Finish" and then the crash file prompt. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with these patches, I used to be able to get them to work but lately it's no dice. My e-mail is rrweeks@comcast.net. If you can give my paint my numbers directions I'll give it another try but you'll have to be very specific. I remember when you got on my computer you said something about the file not pointing in the right direction or something like that. Thanks for your help.
  5. I've been wrapping up SCG games and couldn't participate in the ladder but could play now. If you have room in the ladder I could participate as an alternate, but I'm not really interested in climbing the ladder per se, I'm more interested in good games and learning AOD. I could do a couple games but that's about it. I'm currently in a non-ladder game with Isnogud...and he is good! So although I was a very good SCG player I would say I'm still learning AOD, but could still be characterized as a competent player. I have some more hard knocks to learn but on balance can give an opponent a good contest. So, let me know if any room in the ladder to fill a slot that maybe open. I could be like the practice squad on a pro sports team. I prefer the Allied side but am willing to do Axis, it would help with the learning curve. I've seen enough already to get a feel for what the Axis strategy needs to be. E-mail is rrweeks@comcast.net Bob.
  6. Hey, I'm going to post here, too: Hey guys, I'm the player that was supposed to be in the tourney but due to a clear case of operator error had to withdraw since I couldn't get the game to run. Hubert got the game running for me the other day...thank you Hubert! So, if any of you now deep in the tourney have finished games and have time and need a good Allied opponent, fire off an AoD 1939 Axis first turn to rrweeks@comcast.net I think those of you that have played me know I can play the Allies about as good as anyone out there, except maybe for Dragon...is he still playing? Clausewitz, I know we had some great SCG Gold 1.04 games, so if you want to resume the wars send me a file. Time permitting I'd fire back an Axis game but I've found that my ideal number of games is 3, maybe 4, otherwise I get in a personal battle at home...with the better half. I want peace on the homefront! So it's kind of first come first served. I'm the type who likes to learn as I go so you folks might have a slight advantage as I'm not going to spend hours on an AI game learning tips and tricks. I'll read the posts and keep them in mind, but all-in-all my forces will have to gain experience the hardway, at the college of hard knocks as my dad used to say. Bob
  7. Hey guys, I'm the player that was supposed to be in the tourney but due to a clear case of operator error had to withdraw since I couldn't get the game to run. Hubert got the game running for me the other day...thank you Hubert! So, if any of you now deep in the tourney have finished games and have time and need a good Allied opponent, fire off an AoD 1939 Axis first turn to rrweeks@comcast.net I think those of you that have played me know I can play the Allies about as good as anyone out there, except maybe for Dragon...is he still playing? Clausewitz, I know we had some great SCG Gold 1.04 games, so if you want to resume the wars send me a file. Time permitting I'd fire back an Axis game but I've found that my ideal number of games is 3, maybe 4, otherwise I get in a personal battle at home...with the better half. I want peace on the homefront! So it's kind of first come first served. I'm the type who likes to learn as I go so you folks might have a slight advantage as I'm not going to spend hours on an AI game learning tips and tricks. I'll read the posts and keep them in mind, but all-in-all my forces will have to gain experience the hardway, at the college of hard knocks as my dad used to say. Bob
  8. I'm a long time SC player, currently playing SCG 1.04, standard 1939 scenario. I prefer the Allied side. I'm a good player and have room for one, possible two games and can do 5+ turns a week. If interested send an Axis first turn to: rrweeks@comcast.net Bob.
  9. Sorry to say that I withdrew from the AoD tournament. I seem to have an insurmountable problem getting AoD to run on my computer. I've probably spent upwards of a dozen hours trying to get the game to run but I have to surrender! I've been playing SC and it's successors for I believe 9 years and absent Hubert getting on my computer to fix this I believe this is how it ends. I followed the instructions provided step-by-step, even got a second version of 1.04 to run. Then when I overlaid with AoD it still didn't work. I tried probably 4 times, each time I got the same exception. Hubert, if you want to get on my computer send me an e-mail as I'm pretty frustrated and won't be checking the board anymore. If possible I would also like to ask for a refund of my AoD purchase, Battlefront has my particulars. Best to all. Bob
  10. Sorry to say that I have to withdraw from the tournament. I seem to have an insurmountable problem in getting AoD to run on my computer. I've made multiple posts on the forum and followed the instructions from Hubert as best as I could and for some reason AoD doesn't want to run on my computer. I surrender! Best of luck to the other participants. Sorry if I messed up the brackets but if I can't get the game to run there is nothing I can do. Bob.
  11. I've been able to avoid trying to get AoD to run by just playing SCG 1.04, but now I'm in the AoD tournament and need it to run. So, I did (as far as I'm capable) what you said above, but no dice. I spent probably another two hours trying this and that but nothing seems to work, yet my 1,04 still works fine. AoD does the same thing on each attempt, get's all the way to finish, attempts to launch...then doesn't work. It even puts the shortcuts on my screen, but then everytime gives an error. So I think I have two possible solutions: 1) I completely purge every element of SCG from my computer including 1.04 and reinstall fresh copies. I've already paid for SCG, Gold, and AoD, but the problem is other that except AoD I don't have my old e-mail with codes. So, perhaps you could give me new download codes for everything and I'd download everything into a completely fresh folder. I guess I could just buy again if I had to but that seems like paying for the same real estate twice. 2) You get on my computer like the IT guys do at work and fix the problem. My guess is you could figure things out quickly. This would be an imposition though. I'd love to participate in the tournament but if I can't get AoD to run then I guess that's the end of my SC run, as I think most 1.04 players are migrating over. Bob
  12. I had to give up on trying to get AoD to run. Keep in mind that I'm not the most astute computer type. But I was able to finally the 1.04 patch to run, that was a stupid oversight on my part. But I think the AoD issues are deeper. I uninstalled and re-installed both AoD and a copy of SCG, and no dice. I think some of your players, like me, might need a bit more hand holding on how to get things to work. It's a bit frustrating as it goes all the way through the setup and then at the very, very end when you hit finish it says it couldn't load something. Maybe I need a fresh copy of SCG but info on when I bought is years old and long since deleted from my e-mail so I'm stuck with these copies of my original file. So maybe one work around is to scour your records and grand longtime players me a new SCG game which I could download into a fresh folder along with my AoD and maybe that would work. I've spent about 6 hours on-and-off trying to get AoD to run. Bob.
  13. Okay, I was able to beat Dave as Axis in a 1.02 game, me as Allies, but it was really, really close. Dave has a good strategy but imo it's high risk, pretty much all-or-nothing. I think it highlights that experience plays a big role in SCG. It also reinforces what the best SC player ever, Terif, said many times...don't surrender too early. Here's a synopsis of the game: Dave got great research luck for the Japanese, achieving infantry 2 AND motorization within the first few turns. As a result he sliced through my poor Chinese like a meat cleaver carving up Peking Duck tableside. The Chinese surrendered in late 1941 after a valiant but doomed effort, ground to bits under the treads of the fast moving Japanese. But at the same time I had the Brits gather every mpp they could around the Globe, and also had them take Brunei and the Solomons in 1941 which I think surprised him, but for the Allies which the only repurcussion is it causes Japan to go to war with England. Dave responded well to my Pacific surprises and took those territories back in time but it did distract him and take mpps in doing so while funding the Treasury back in England, and later in the game I was able to hold or establish and then expand some beachheads in the Pacific. Anyway, by the time Barbarossa rolled around I could see that Dave's Axis strategy out west was going to be Russia first, period, as the only minors he took was Norway and Yugoslavia. He pretty much ignored and striped the other theatres and garrisonsed the West and Italy with the Italians and mnors and some German corps and threw as much of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe at the Russians as he could scrape up. Stalin was upset! He even bypassed some Russian cities and sent his bulwark in one direction...toward the third Russian capital. He had me behind the Urals by the Fall of 1942 and was pressing on my final capital when winter hit...thank goodness. But keep in mind he also had that great Japanese research luck in getting infantry 2 and motorization right of the bat, so the Japanese were pressing the Russians too, from China. He thought I would surrender. But the words of former Grand Master Emeritus, Terif, rung in my ears like Obi Wan Kanobi talking to Luke. "Bob, listen to the Force, don't surrender..." So as bleak as it looked I decided to play through the winter of 1942. And lo-and-behold, the Russians luck turned. Dave misplayed his Japanese in Russia and attacked to early imo so I was able to deal with them first, the Japanese being at low supply. Those poor Samari didn't even havie sake to slake their fears against those Russian longknives and merciless Asian brethren on the other side of the trenches, the feared Siberian Russians. So, my level 4 and 5 tanks in the depth of winter struck when he couldn't deploy air, while I stalled the Germans moving in from the other flank. With the Japanese dealt with I was then able to turn full force toward the Germans as spring of 1943 arrived. By then I was replenished in Russia, even having handed out extra vodka rations and borscht, while also pressing all around out west where I had taken Spain and Portugal and Norway and Sweden and all of Africa except Adis Ababba. His all Russia attack left him open to Western Allied advances, the Achillees heel in his strategy. So by the spring of 1943 he was so stretched in Russia that my offensive there put him on his heels and we called the game. He said he thought he could fight for a draw but I disagreed, as once the US units rolled off the assembly lines and joined the fray they would have kept the Germans on their heels, not to mention that Italy was endangered. In the Pacific the Allies were able to stall the Japanese in Eastern India, and had a toehold in the Dutch East Indies. So I think the 1.04 improvements will make a big difference, especially those forts up north in China. The Axis player will have to play for a longer game and plan on operating units around to deal with Allied offensives once the US enters the war. Bob
  14. Do you know why I can't see my turn to attach? I played the 1.04 turn and saved as per normal and I see nothing to attach. So I replayed the turn and saved as .sav and it still doesn't showup. So I have a turn to give my opponent (one might show a replay now), but for some reason I can't attach anything as nothing shows to attach when I hit reply? Thanks Bob
  15. If i uninstall the original SCG will the game be waiting for me in the trash bin? I long ago lost track of info on the original game, but if I can retrieve from the trashbin I'll give it a go. Bob.
  16. Hubert, it's Jollyguy with another version problem. Using what I learned in my 1.04 post I copied over my entire 1.02 folder and bought and downloaded Aod there. in a folder named Aod. Everything seemed to go okay and a shortcut even loaded on my desktop, but I got the following error: "Could not find bitmaps\border_sprites.bmp I checked the Aod folder and that was there. So I deleted the entire folder and copied over again and copied the patch from my download file, same thing. So I then went into 1.02 and copied over the bitmaps folder and told the system to copy, etc. a bunch of times and then saw to x for ignore the next like 40 prompts and x'ed and they all copied. I then clicked the icon on my desktop...same thing. So that's the limit of my abilities, I need to know what I'm doing wrong. I was curious and 1.02 and 1.04 are both working fine, so it seems to be limited to AoD. A bit frustrating since I got 1.04 working and did the exact same thing for Aod or so I think. Bob.
  17. Problem solved. Hubert, keep in mind as a CPA I can figure out how to do any tax form out there. As a computer novice, not so. So you gave me just enough info above to figure it out. What I had been doing was only copying the game itself over...not the entire folder. So of course it wouldn't run, the recipe was missing key ingredients in the form of other required files. Why I thought I only needed to copy the game itself I don't know. So, once I copied the entire folder, which took about 7 minutes, then downloaded and extracted the patch there it worked. I did get something quirky when I went back to my 1.02 shortcut, it said I had to run as the administrator which I did, but then the next time clicking the shortcut 1.02 worked as per normal. Anyway, thanks for the clues that helped me figure it out. And from what I can see I think the 1.04 changes for China especially and the Allies will help balance the game. Those fortifications in China will make it harder for Japan to steamroll and turn the flank up north. Bob.
  18. I tried what you said and here's the prompt I get at the very, very, end when I hit finish: "The program can't start because zlib1.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." I didn't do a formal uninstall of the 2nd copy as I don't have an actual copy to re-install as I just downloaded the game from the web about 2 years ago...I don't have a physical copy. Like I said in my prior post I would need to get another copy from the web with codes or something. Or, does the uninstall copy go into the trash bin? That's what I'm afraid of, that if I uninstall it disappears completely. So what I did was delete the 2nd copy and then move it back from the trash bin into the 2nd folder and downloaded the patch. But no luck. I know I'm not the only player having this trouble so we need a protocol. Maybe next time I should order the physical disk? But that seems more expensive all around and slow. If there was a way for me to get a fresh copy to re-install that might solve the problem? This time I would save the download info. Or, like I said, if I can uninstall and it goes to trash bin and can be reinstalled that would give me confidence to unistall. Or, can I download again using my e-mail address and you know it's my IP so wouldn't be a problem? Thanks, Bob
  19. I and other players (but I don't think all) are having insurmountable problems running two versions of SCG. This didn't use to be a problem in the older versions of SC, I think its new to SCG. I do the normal procedure, copy the game to a differently named folder, i.e., v3, then download the 1.03 patch there. Everything seems to be working fine, and then at the very, very end of the patching process, when I hit finish, I get a prompt that it didn't work. I sent this prompt word-for-word to your help guy but he didn't respond. Then, if I try to get into my v2 game it doesn't work. So I have to go into the v3 folder and delete the patch and my v2 game works again. This didn't happen in the older versions of SC, I used to be able to finish my games in the older version and start up new games with the latest patch. Now we're handcuffed to finishing the older version games or agreeing to call them and starting new games with the latest patch. If you can't find what I sent your help guy I'll try again this weekend and type it word-for-word again on this thread, buy my guess is that you could replicate it easily. I'm using Windows 7 btw. Also, if the solution is to put a brand new version of the v0 game to a new folder and then patch it I suspect you're going to have to help many people...like me, who did not save the game info when I downloaded. I just downloaded and off I went. I long ago deleted the e-mail that had any of the initial download info, so you would have to supply me with that code again. Bob
  20. Are you playing a human or the computer...huge difference.
  21. I'm not sure that the game is as out of balance as David indicates, although imo there is an Axis bias. I too have been at SC for years and when I do win against a competent Axis player my Russians are inevitably pushed back to the Urals and sometimes the final capital before my Allies can fully turn the corner. But I have won as Allies against very good Axis players who followed the usual script of taking all the minors. As one poster said the Allies must be very thoughtful on what to buy and when. I think as Allies you need to be more reactive and try to gauge your opponent on where and when to committ resources. I.e., if he’s not showing much naval effort then don’t have the Brits invest there except for anti-sub 1. If he’s timid somewhere then that’s where the Allies can concentrate and delay better, etc. As the Allies I believe the first few years should be in trying to get every mpp you can as early as you can and be careful on expenditures of mpps. For the US research is very important but so is having units ready to go to blunt the Axis when the DOW comes. On balance the Allies have to be more creative and better at reading their opponent and patient. I do think though that the victory conditions need to be tweaked a bit. Between two very good players it would be hard for the Allies to meet the conditions at times but it can be done. There’s no doubt imo that the Axis is easier to win with, but I like the Allied side because it’s more challenging. David, I’m currently working SC 1.02 as I await Assault on Democracy. I could fit in one more game. If you’re curious send an Axis 1.02 first turn to rrweeks@comcast.net We’ll see if I can do things a bit differently than what you’re used to. Bob
  22. Amadeus, sounds good. I don't want mirror games right away, I'll just play the Allied side and then maybe we can reverse in the next round. See ya. Bob.
  23. Oh, e-mail is rrweeks@comcast.net. See ya.
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