Honch

Uploading V101 right now.

I am downloading the patch as we speak and will transfer the changes into my scenario. Give me today to get that done. I will change the date of the Free Polich corps into Egypt.

I have added Kursk, a couple of other Russian cities and will add Petrozavodsk. I also want to add UK bombers for sub spotting in Freetown and US bombers for sub spotting in Caracas or Puerto Rico. I will post the updated scenario tomorrow.

I have also reduced the file size significantly by removing the customization files that I didn't change. I should have done this the first time. Duh.

aesopo: 1. The swedish convoys only work after Sweden reaches 25% activation. I made no changes here. 2. The game turns are seasonal and simultaneous with 14 day normalization. This means that turns in summer are 1 week with 50% MPP production. Fall and Winter are 2 weeks with normal MPP production and Winter is 1 month with double MPP production. 3. If you MPPs shot up after the fall of France maybe its because of plunder as well?

Changes as of 9:19 PST: 1. German flag and HQ flag changed to historical swastika. (If you don't like it, don't download it) 2. De Gaulle activation of Free French army, armor and HQ Leclerc date corrected. 3. Morrocco, Algeria and French-West Africa garrison activation corrected. 4. Free French HQ flag corrected. Let me know if you see anything else.

Just noticed that the German NATO military flag is working but not the fancy contoured flag, not a big deal but I will fix it when I get a chance. Also, I had to make some changes to the Algerian,Moroccan and French-West Africa garrison scripts, again minor and I will fix soon.

Its uploading right now but taking forever..... Probably becuase of the localized files.

OK, its done. My updated "Honch Custom Scenario" will be posted on CMMods in an hour or two. It includes: 1. Addition of the atomic bomb as a tech. (replacing rockets) 2. Addition of minor cities as a terrain tile with same values as forest. 3. Addition of Venezuela, India, Belgium and Netherlands (separated), French-West Africa, Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, French Equatorial Africa, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Palestine/Trans-Jordan, Anglo-Egypt Sudan, Kenya, Madagascar, Free France, Afghanistan, British Somaliland, Italian East Africa, French Somaliland, Liberia, Portugese Guinea, Aden Protectorate, Japan (off-map hex) and a few others. 4. Tweaking of various attack/defense values, build costs and times, tech levels and costs, DOW scripts etc. SS are not as effective against capital ships but harder to hit. USSR, Italian and most minor infantry starts off with weaker attack. Amphib action points reduced for all except UK/USA. More historical free unit arrivals, eg. Patton, Eisenhower, Manstein, Rommel, Montgomery, US lend lease DD to UK, De Gaulle, Leclerc, Free French units, Free Poles in Egypt, Tito, etc. etc. 5. Addition of post-surrender Soviet partisans, German surface raider capability, Japanese option of garrisoning Madagascar, creation of Free France as a nation, free Polish, Greek, Belgian and Dutch scripts, Indian and Venezuelan convoys, transfer of UK government to Halifax instead of Alexandria and others. 6. Historical German flags. Warning: The AI has not been changed as I await the first patch. So if you play as the Axis do not expect a US or UK Torch, Anvil or D-Day. Please everyone, give it a try.

I managed to pull it off just editing ones that were in the BMP already. I have created textured flags for Japan, Venezuela and India, all for my custom scenario that encompasses all of Africa, Venezuela, India and an off map hex for Japan. (For the possibility of Japan garrisoning Madagascar) I will post the scenario to CMMMods tonight. If you want the flags just e-mail me at dhucul@ipcburnaby.com.

I know that it has been discussed before but can we expect to have scripts to change the convoy routes upon conquest of the UK and transfer of its government?

From my understanding of the user manual, you only get points from resources, either captured or allied, if you: A) Have a convoy route from that country to one of your ports or; There is a direct land route of 100% allied tiles between the resource and your capital. 1. Therefore, Germany does not get resource points from captured UK resources? If thats the case, whats the point of having UK partisans? 2. Also, I assume the only reason Germany would want to invade Norway would be to put AFs there to secure the convoy route and to put a unit in Trondheim to secure that port? Can anyone clarify this?

Another question about bitmaps. If I copied the small town bitmap from the D-Day campaign and pasted it over one of the forest bitmaps would I be able to add these to the map?

When editing the bitmaps, do we have to erase the old one or can we simply copy the new one on top of it. I tried copying a true German WWII flag on top of the old one but the game still uses the old one. (Yes, I used the localization file)

Thats what I thought, mostly game engine and AI stuff.

If Hubert were to post a list of changes he is working on for the upcoming patch it would help all of us modders who use our own custom campaigns. By seeing what is in the new patch we can avoid re-creating the wheel and making our own modifications only to download the new patch with those changes already made. Make sense? For example, I have made extensive event script changes and would like to do more but don't want to re-do something that will be in the patch anyway. I would love to have a simple summary of: 1. map changes 2. event script changes 3. AI script changes 4. miscellaneous

I am hoping that these errors are corrected in the patch: [05/20/2006 2:53:24] FAILED(calculate_naval_path_list): Segmentation violation [05/20/2006 2:53:24] FAILED(calculate_distance_between_naval_positions): Segmentation violation [05/20/2006 2:53:24] FAILED(calculate_nearest_non_threatened_port_position): Segmentation violation [05/20/2006 2:53:24; 5.1.2600; 1024x768x32(1); v1.00.00] FAILED(animate_naval_combat): Segmentation violation

I have added a Free Greek, Free Polish, Free Belgian and Free Dutch script to allow 40% chance of naval units switching to the UK and 100% of land units switching (they have to be in UK controlled territory. I have also added Free France as a separate nation (using the Luxembourg slot) with French Equatorial Africa as an off map hex where they can build units. (very little MPPs though) De Gaulle HQ arrives there in 1940. I have also added a UK Corps (1st Free Polish) to arrive in Egypt in 1940 as the defense of Egypt in early 1940 was in the hands of mainly Poles, Indians, New Zealanders and some British troops. If interested in these scripts please email me at dhucul@ipcburnaby.com.

I have now created a new map for my Fall Weiss 1939 scenario including all of Africa north of Belgian Congo/Kenya and East to Karachi. It includes scripts for all of the Vichy and Free French territories such as French Equatorial Africa (Free), French Somaliland (Vichy), French West Africa (Vichy) and even Madagascar (Vichy). It includes all Italian Abyssinia, Eritrea and Somaliland as well as British Somaliland, Northern Kenya, Anglo-Sudan and even part of the Belgian Congo. Resources added include Khartoum, Addis Ababba, Karachi, Dakar, Casablanca, Aden, Jibuti and Mogadishu. The scripts work and I have used red arrow naval loops to include South Africa as an off map hex. You can't expect the AI to really work with these new territories as I have not scripted any AI stuff yet, just made sure that the event scripts work. As soon as I get the terrain tiles all complte I will post the new mod to CMMODS.

Change the "Victory" script to include Manchester.

Use simultaneous turns with 14 day normalization. It works great!

It would be great to have an empty slot or two in the unit types and terrain types for those of us who would like to add, for example, Garrison/Territorial units, Destroyer/ASW units, minor cities and minor ports etc. Is this something that is (or was) considered?

The BB issue is normal. The PARIS decided to continue fighting with the Free French. Marseilles is now Vichy, a neutral power. The issues of getting booted needs to be addressed. Tiles in countries occupied by units of another power should not be subject to the usual "Surrender" scripts other than the Vichy France mainland.

I just tried to run a new game with my custom campaign and when I go into advanced options, scripts and look through the defaults for the campaign there are no Surrender scripts under the Surrender title! I ran the editor to check for errors and there are none. All of the scripts seem to be intact. I even tried copying the original Fall Weiss Surrender Script file into my custom campaign directory to restore the original file. Nothing! Help?

The naval loop event scripts only allow US or UK ships around the horn.