Honch
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I know that there are lots of Canadians and hockey fans in this forum. So, how appropriate, a hilarious you tube video with Hitler lamenting my pathetic Vancouver Canucks!
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Good ideas. I don't see a problem with any of them. I also reduced the range of artillery to one tile. Two was slightly unrealistic. I increased the infantry attack and defense of anti-tank guns and reduced the starting range of fighters and tac bombers.
As for A-Bombs; unfortunately there is no way to stop a country from using one every turn once they have it. They do alot of damage to either the resource or the unit, not both though, and the effect is not permanent. We need a brand new A-Bomb unit to be designed into the game engine.
That is why I added the H-Bomb scripts. It better simulates the devestating effect on units and resources alike.
Thanks to Hubert I am now working on modding the PDE expansion with my map and will release it when PDE is released.
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Version 3 is up.
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My last version of the WAW MOD prior to PDE will be posted later tonight but I need some input on some gameplay changes that I want to make:
1. Reduce naval attack and defense of subs, they seem to decimate capital ships even at no tech.
2. Reduce the range of fighters and tactical bombers. German fighters should only be able to reach into the UK by one or two tiles at most at no tech.
3. Increase the sub attack and defense of destroyers.
4. Decrease the soft and tank defense of paratroops.
What do you guys think?
Changes already included for this version:
1. Various map adjustments, additions and corrections.
2. Add a French corps to Marseilles.
3. Add scripts for the creation of Montenegro and the annexation of Luxembourg, Alsace and Lorraine.
4. Moved Cherbourg city and port to allow for better "Normandy" invasions.
5. Added a second port to Southampton-Portsmouth as this was a major port along the lines of New York, Scapa Flow and Norfolk.
6. Fixed the British Home Guard script so that they only appear on invasion of the UK.
7. Added Hydrogen Bomb scripts to keep bombed cities in Germany at zero after the first strike.
8. Italy: added Milan, Bologna
9. USA: added Buffalo, Richmond, Hartford
10. USSR: added Orel, Vitebsk, Bryansk
11. Turkey: added Iskanderun
12. France: added Rheims, Toulouse, La Rochelle
13. Yugoslavia: added Sarajevo, Montenegro
14. Germany: added Bremen, Bratislava, changed Dusseldorf-Cologne to Ruhr
15. Spain: added Cordoba
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A couple of questions that I can't seem to figure out:
1. Is there a penalty for attacking across a river (or bonus for defending across a river)?
2. If there is, does road negate this?
3. Do fortresses or forts that cover one tile side cover the corners as well?
4. I saw the Axis AI scripted conquest of Norway in a recent game. As Allies, if I had DOW'd Norway and had troops there prior, would that script have still occured?
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Version 3 will be up tomorrow. A few more map changes and corrections and I added some scripts for Axis Oil shortages after mid 1943 if they have not secured the Caucasus or Middle East and US Hydrogen Bomb attacks in late 1945 and 1946 if the game is still going. (These are REALLY cool) This is on top of the smaller bombs made available for the US (and maybe others) to purchase late in the war. Next up, East and West Africa and the Free French as a minor nation!
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No, thats awesome.
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Does anyone have an example of the Free French flag?
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Hubert:
I would like to add on the new North America from the PDE map to the left side of my FALL WEISS modded map. Can this be done?
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And as a follow up to GDTRFB, I get frustrated with the small scale map as well. There is a nice scale map created by PNZGRDR but its branded to the Third Reich game and doesn't have roads, rail some of the terrain etc.
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Oops, I zipped the folder but not the cgn file. At least you guys could get some sleep. It will be up tonight.
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It should all be there, I will try again tonight.
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Uploading now.....
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That does already happen as the US starts at level one in Production tech and Industrial tech as well as having starting research chits.
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I would pay a couple of hundred dollars for a larger scale map.
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Glad you enjoy it.
I will post version 2 tonight.
It includes some minor map changes as well as the following:
Ukrainian and Croatian SS
Spanish Blue Units
British Home Guard
Polish Partisans
Warsaw uprising
Greek, Polish, Belgian and Dutch Free Units
Axis surface raiders from Brest, Nantes and Bordeaux.
Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania and all of the "third world" countries start with reduced SA and TA on their armies and corps to represent their poor training and organization at the start. This can be compensated for during the war by tech.
Russia has reduced costs for corps and armies representing their pool of manpower.
Graf Zeppelin added to the German production queue for 1945 at 1 strength.
I will then start work on adding the East African theatre.
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Awesome AAR but you need the A-Bomb! Its HAS to be included.
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Version 1 is up on cmmods.
For the Atom Bomb the best way to simulate it is to simply make it a unit that everyone can purchase at level 0. The MPPs required and production delay make it not an option for most countries except the USA unless they seriously hamper their war effort. All of the attack values are maxed to ten. Therefore, it should destroy ANY unit its dropped on or wipe out any resource. There is no way to make the resource disappear permanently though.
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Version 1 of my WAW MOD will be on cmmods sometime tonight. Some of the changes include:
UK:
Added Birmingham ©, changed Cardiff (p)to Bristol-Cardiff (t+p), added Glasgow (t), changed Hull (p) to Newcastle-Hull (t+p), added Portsmouth-Southampton (t+p), changed Cyprus to UK control and added Famagusta (p), added Gort (hq), added second fighter (raf), adjusted naval OOB, changed mountains in Wales to hills.
Germany:
Added Cologne-Dusseldorf (t), added Stuttgart (t), added Leipzig-Dresden (t), changed Stettin (p) to Stettin-Rostock (t+p), added Magdeburg (t), added Nuremburg (t), added more forest to the "Black Forest", added Leeb (hq).
USSR:
Added Krasnodar, Perm, Lvov, Novgorod, Kalinin (t), added Tbilisi ©, added Batum (p), adjusted naval OOB.
Italy:
Added Naples (c+p), added Rhodes (p), added tac fighter, Graziani (hq) and tank group to Tobruk.
USA:
Added Albany (t), added Philadelphia ©, adjusted naval starting OOB.
Canada:
Added Toronto and Montreal ©, added Quebec (t), added a mine.
Egypt:
Added Port Said (p), added Giza (t).
Greece:
Added fighter, hq and destroyer, added Salonika (t), added fort (Metaxis line).
Turkey:
Added Izmir (fort+p), added cruiser.
Poland:
Added Danzig (c+p), added Poznan and Lodz (t).
Sweden:
Added Malmo (t+p)
Netherlands:
Added the country, added army, cruiser and fighter, added Amsterdam© and Rotterdam (p).
Benelux:
Added Luxembourg (t), added destroyer and fighter.
Switzerland:
Added Zurich (t).
Iraq:
Added Mosul, Kirkuk and Kuwait (t), added Basra (oil).
Saudi Arabia:
Added Jidda-Mecca (t).
Yugoslavia:
Added Zagreb and Montenegro (t), added Split (p), added corps, fighter and destroyer.
Romania:
Added Constanja (p), added cruiser.
Bulgaria:
Added Varna (p), added fighter and destroyer.
France:
Added Nice, Lyons, St.Nazaire and Tours (t), added Nantes, Cherbourg and Calais (p), adjusted naval OOB.
Spain:
Added Cadiz, Grenada (t), added Valencia (t+p).
Morocco:
Added Marakesh (t).
Finland:
Added Turku (t+p), added destroyer and fighter.
Trans-Jordan:
Added country, added Jerusalem (t), added Haifa (p), added corps.
Syria:
Added Damascus ©.
Version 2 will include scripts for creation of Croatia, annexations by Italy and Germany, Axis surface raiders, Axis oil shortages, Spanish Blue Units, SS Militias, UK Home Guard, German Volkstrum and Volksgrenadiers.
Version 3 will include the East African Theatre and reduced size resource bitmaps to unclutter the map as well as change of Rockets to Atomic Bomb.
Any other ideas?
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I have decided to update my HONCH MOD for WAW even though it may be some time before I get the proper scale map I would like.
Many of the features I had in my original MOD look as though they have become normal features of WAW . I need to ask those who played the previous MOD as to which features I should add again:I have already finished the map with all of the extra cities, towns and ports as well as adding the Netherlands and Trans-Jordan as separate countries. I will also reduce all resource bitmaps by 50% to unclutter the map. I have also changed the starting OOB to be more historical.
I will consider adding the following based on feedback:
Scripts:
1. Creation of Croatia and Kingdom of Montenegro upon conquest of Yugoslavia.
2. German and Italian territorial annexations in France after fall of France.
3. French, Dutch, Baltic, Ukrainian and Croatian SS units.
4. Spanish Blue units.
5. British Home Guard.
6. Volkstrum/Volksgrenadiers. (German Home Guard)
7. Axis oil shortage supply penalties.
8. Activation of De Gaulle and Free French units. (I think that there are already some scripts for this)
9. Free Polish, Dutch and Greek units.
10. Axis surface raiders in the Atlantic.
Units:
Change rockets to Atomic Bomb and allow for development of the bomb. (Very expensive and time consuming for all but the USA)
Change special forces to marines.
Change partisans to militia. (This will still allow USSR partisan units to appear but will also represent low level garrison troops)
Let me know!
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SC2 with WAW is definately the best of the bunch. CEAW's only advantages are the oil feature and the scale of the map. Although the interface is rather pretty as well.
Best features of SC2:
1. Support. Hubert is amazing at supporting the product and the commitment to expansion is fabulous.
2. Moddability. The editor is great and only getting better. Try the CEAW editor, its like working in binary.
3. AI. Its a tough one.
4. Diplomacy. The "what-if" and re-playability are very good.
5. Variety of units. Although many of them are not appropriate at the large scale of FAll Weiss (1939 scenario) they provide lots of fun.
Need improvement:
1. Scale. The Fall Weiss scale is too large. It needs to be reduced by about 30%.
2. Oil. There needs to be an oil feature to represent oil shortages later in the war.
3. Artwork. THe 3-D units and resource bitmaps are too large. They should be reduced by 50% to clean-up the map.
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The problem is that without the ability to stack, FALL WEISS is too large of a scale. It should be at least 25-30% smaller scale with 50% reduction ideal.
Many of the features I had in my original MOD look as though they have become normal features of WAW .
Am I crazy or what?
in Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare
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My sources tell me that Hubert is working on the Global scenario right now.