SidiusPOA

This is the first pack of images from the soldiers of the Japanese side. You can see the Marine Navy Units. And the Suicide planes. also in the Japanese Army you can seethe new set of Tanks. The suicide plane is hit and in smoke, a great unit vs ships. But only two. the final line of defence against the Allied attack on the Japanes Island. I hope you enjoy them. I await your reply. Christos Sideris

News on the Pacific Theater. The lands with mountains and rivers are made. Almost all the cities have been inserted. I have made more than 30 islands in the pacific that can hold port, city and atleast 2 units on it. In the indochina region Hell will break loose in order to hold-capture-retake the main cities resources. In the Indonacia region the Japanise player will have to take al lthe cities in order to make Netherland to surrender. The same stand for English holdings. I have made Panama as US in order to tranfer units.The tranfer of units can only be made from city to city. I will await for the new update in order to insert any scripts. Soon i will post the different units i have created. So Japan is two countries. The army and the Navy. They are locked into a strange situation. You will have to share the conquered lands so both will have supplies. The Army have HQ,soldiers,Armies,Tanks,Transports,Some very few planes (2) and few bombers (2). The Navy have HQ,few soldier marines (3), Ambibious Marines (5), Planes, bombers, and ocource all the naval vessals. So The navy will have to take an Island but it will be the Armies work to hold it as the Marines will have to move in order to retake other islands. The artillery for the navy i will change it into Suicide planes and it will become available in a condition of certain lands that are lost. No upgrade will be possible and the damage to ships will be great. They will be able to be only on the Main island so Allied ships be afraid, be very afraid.Only 2 suicide units can be made. And the reason the units do not die is because more pilots offer their lifes in order protect the Empire so the ranks are reinforced every turn. On the other hand USA will have the A-BOMB. That will destroy almost everything at the place it will hit. According to the holdings of the USA around the island it will activate the creation of the A-bomb and place it in a city near Japan. Thats al lfor now. Christos Sideris

Yes the link do not work you have to have an account at yahoo.games and go to the files menu and at the world map tryout http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/strategiccommand2/files/WORL%20MAP%20TRY%20OUT%20SidiusPOA/ From there you can chooce the file to download it. Christos

Ok friends, Based on the feedback you have given me i have made the following changes. The Costs for reasearch, and diplomacy have been changed. Only Home build for the majors. If Japan will go for the complite end of China, USA will join the war while USSR will be join or will be at the bring of joining the war. This is done in order to reflect the fact that after Japan have taken almost all the coast of China turned towards the Island of Indonacia and a way to reach Australia. Also The fall of Egypt to the Axis means the total turn of all the coolitions of africa to the Allies. The Victory conditions have changed and no minor victory exists. I have posted the new update at Yahoo SC page the Link is http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/8BdYRbvBs33DSWWQbaC8SA_QwEDiZLbuPXtgk2fJ4qt89NC8He60Vuah_8WyeK5BCo02KQMF9zUQa59kXuwfV7kHG2W1Zb57/WORL%20MAP%20TRY%20OUT%20SidiusPOA/Campaigns.rar Christos

Dear friend , your script look ok but you have forgotten the Plan_ID and in some cases the SIZE #PLAN_ID= 0 = Garrison #PLAN_ID= 1 = Build up Offencive #PLAN_ID= 2 = Build up amphibious #PLAN_ID= 3 = Build up sea transport The PLAN_ID you put between #LEVEL= 0 #SIZE= 2 So i guess that your script for the Denmark Garrison would be like: { #NAME= Denmark Garrisons; Pre-war #POPUP= #FLAG= 1 #TYPE= 2 #COUNTRY_ID= 6 #TRIGGER= 100 #LEVEL= 0 #PLAN_ID= 0 #SIZE= 1 #LENGTH= 1 #GOAL_POSITION= 80,75 #GOAL_POSITION= 75,75 #GOAL_POSITION= 86,71 #GOAL_POSITION= 82,68 #GOAL_POSITION= 85,74 #GOAL_POSITION= 97,73 #GOAL_POSITION= 96,72 #DATE= 1939/09/03 #FRIENDLY_POSITION= 97,73 #VARIABLE_CONDITION= 6 [2] [1] [0] #TACTICAL_CONDITION= 87,54 [3] #ACTIVATE_POSITION= 0,0 [0,0] [0,0] [0] #CANCEL_POSITION= 0,0 [0,0] [0,0] [0] } Try it this way and report back to see if everyhting went ok. Christos Sideris

Thank you for your point. I will make a declaration of war at 1945 with some conditions for the USSR. Thanks again for the info. Christos Sideris

Dear friend , In your new scenario folder you will have inside 3 folders. Scripts , that is created automaticaly when you build a new map. then you create the folder Bitmaps and the folder Interface. In the folder bitmaps you take the images from the games images and put them in there and change them. The same with the interface. Here is the thing though. You will need to have a the campaign configurated into : #CUSTOM_BITMAPS= 1 #CUSTOM_INTERFACE= 1 #CUSTOM_SOUND= 0 #CUSTOM_LOCALIZATION= 1 were 1 means that the game will take the pictures from the scenario folder and 0 in order to take it from the Games folders. Have in mind that you do not need to copy all the images into the scenario folders. If you will change only the sprite images then you need only that image and not all the rest. the game will use the custom image and then wil luse all the rest from the Games folders. I hope i could help. Christos Sideris

I was studing Japan's history in WW2 and i have found out that the Imperial Japanese Army was in constant rivarly with the Imperial Japanese Navy. especialy during 1943 the luck of tanks , weapons and other supplies was so great because they were given to the Navy. so i will go ahead and cut Japan into two. This way it will be more balanced and the players will realise that he can't expant the one without hurting the other. so balance would be the key. and now about the update. so far i have build the flags of the participating countries. Imperial Navy and Imperial Army on the side of Japan and the army of Tailand. On the other side we have, china,UK,USA, Australia, New Zealand,India, Canada , Netherlands,Indo-France, Mexico and India. USSR will be included but only if Japan will like to take some more lands, cause USSR declared war to Japan only after the Nuclear bomb on Japan soil at 1945. In total: #SEA= Sea #UK= UK #FRANCE= China #USA= USA #USSR= Netherlands #GERMANY= Japanese Imperial Army #ITALY= Japanese Imperial Navy #NEUTRAL= Neutral #ALBANIA= Thailand #ALGERIA= USSR #AUSTRIA= India #BALTIC_STATES= Mexico #CANADA= Canada #ICELAND= New Zealand #JORDAN= Burma #LITHUANIA= Mongolia #LUXEMBOURG= Australia #REPUBLICAN_SPAIN= Indo-France #TUNISIA= Brazil Finaly i would like to see your bitmaps with the jap airforce. my email is chsideri@anco.gr Christos Sideris

Question to all, do you think would be wise to have have Japan cut into two nations The Royal army and the royal navy? One as Germany and one as Italy? Christos Sideris

Ok people, I have finished the WORLD MAP and as for now i await the feedback in order to make it playable. But this wait grand me the time to start a new mod. I have seen the Pacific mod that started but never finished and i would like to aid. So if i could have some of the things , of the staff that you worked so far and with my map we could do wonders. This is the map i created for the pacific theater: I hope you like it and send me some work yo uhave made in order to do it good. Christos Sideris

Ok guys i have heared so many things about the cheaters and ways to protect your self or reveil them. As a lot mentioned there are not a lot of things you can do about it. You can only protect your self in some degree. If a turn comes from your email there is nothing you can do about it. Becasue he ca ndownload again and again the file and have what ever counter back to zero. So even if you have a counter that counts how many times the turn is loaded into the game and send this data to the reply turn . If someone will download it from his outlook or mail program the counter will always be at zero. The only way would be to send the turn with the aid of the program, but this wil lcause a lot of aggravation to a lot of people. Another way is to send the turns only through a forum or a private part of a page. This way you will have the counter in the file and the pages will count also how many times the file have been downloaded. It is also a lame way but you will know when someone have downloaded a file and how many times. and also how many times a specific turn have been loaded to the game. Also i came a cross a small bug. I have not played with another player yet but what i have seen with the AI is this. some time i play a turn at my office computer. so the need to ALT + TAB is offen. When i return to the game i some times can see some traces of a movement in the sea. like the bitmaps distorts for a while but yo ucan se a clear path of "something" moving. this happens when the game is white and tries to reconstruct the game bitmaps. So why don't also the rest of players check on it as well. Christos Sideris

Fartknock3r can you please if you like send me your work so far so i can update them and continue your work? We can both end this mod. wha tdo you say? Christos Sideris

Dear Alaric, I have found a list of the all the Army Field Marshals of the Japanese army. Shunroku Hata Hisaichi Terauchi Hajime Sugiyama Naruhiko Higashikuni Nobuyoshi Muto and the Provost Marshal Generals Sadao Araki Fusataro Teshima Toranosuke Hashimoto Shigeru Taiboku I await your confirmation on the names in order to make the changes. Also i will look into the alertness levels and reply to you about it. Christos

Dear Friends, First of all i would like to thank you all for your words and the time you used in order to download and play the mod i made. Once more i would like to point out that the Japan units we used by a stoped mod some friend made. I refined them , and made them payable since it was only a photo by J&J . I do not want to take the credit for the work of someone else. Also i have seen the problem on the diplomacy menu. Although i made the menu bigger, any country that is not in the area of the original menu bitmaps can't be chosen. I hope that the new update wil lsolve this problem cause i can't find another way. Reply to the people now. China surrenders when she looses two cities Beijine and Yumen. Ofcource if Japan will come closer to Yumen it will make USA and USSR to react and lead to further come closer to war. So the axis player will have to make a choice either go for Yumen and be ready to face the wrath of both USSR and USA , or be content with the lands of china he will have. do not forget that actualy Japan never conquered the whole China. Now about the 2 japanise generals Yama****a and Yamamoto. I have made changes and i have inserted Yamashira to command the forces of Japan at Indonasia. Yamamoto although a great Naval commander his abilities were only at the sea. Not to mention his death at 1943. So it hurt me to leave out such a man but he didn't play a vital roll in the land battles of Japan during world war 2. I am trying ways to prevent an early attack on Poland, but the fact that no script with start and end day of check of conditions prevents me from that. It will be great if there will two new kind of scripts in the new update. One will have to do with land change according to city taken. The second conditions that are checked between dates. eg Start at 1/1/1937 , End at 1/1/1939. This way you can make scripts that will prevent a country to attack another , with the fear of having to face or change the diplomatic community of the world. Also a great think would be arrows for the land as well. If any friend will need any help in his mod i will be more than happy to help him , or he is more than welcome to take parts of my mod and use it in his own. Soon according to your feedback i will have the new update of the map. Also a mass change into the Axis scripts will be made. It is true that i have mainly oriented the mod for the Axis point of view. also need feedback by playing the allies. With respect Christos Sideris

I would like to test your map. my email is chsideri@anco.gr Christos

Ok Friends the Map is up on the cmmods. Worldmap_beta_Sideris enjoy it . Still want your feedback Christos Sideris

Dear Mohican, I would like to point out about a minor country your should put.The country will be Australia. When Greek armies stoped the Italian attack and pushed them back to the Andriatic Sea, literaly, Hitler discided to join in. At this point UK send reinforcments for the greeks as Germany was the big enemy. In these reinforcements were some Australian units. Almost 50% of the UK reniforcment force. The main line of defence was the Metaxas line. Were UK troops covered the west part, australians the east and Greeks the center. The first untis to retreat were the UK forces while letting austrians an Greeks almost cut off. If it wasn't for the spirit of the Greeks and Australian all the allied forces would have fallen to the enemy. Also it was the Australians and the greeks that kept the enemy at bay in order for the English soldiers to leave for Egypt. So I think Australia should be included. And do not forget the war between the Greeks and the Italians started 2 hours before the official declaration of war by the Italians by the torpedoe attack by Italian subs to the Greek old battleships Elli. Christos Sideris

Dear Wüstenfuchs , I never said that Italy didn't play a vital role in the events we call World War 2. I am from Greece and i have to say that Italy never reached more than 100 klm inside Greek soil. They were pushed back and thrown into the Andriatic Sea. They may wanted to reach Athens but that would been like wanting to capture New York. But you are right Italy should be in , so i will make a new picture with Italy inside as well. Now another friend asked why i do not make it public. that the idea. Thats why i made this mod in order for eveyrone to have it. But i need to fix it, to make it playable both in human vs Computer and Human vs Human. That is why some people get it in order to test it and report about bugs. Every feedback i get the map is getting better and better. But if this is what the people want i will make it public as an beta version and after the rest of the of the feedback from all of you make it a final version. Now some info about the changes. As i stated Japans and USA's naval forces have been lowered. Resources in the Manchurian lands and ports have been removed. Moves that will change greatly the mail streem of history like Japan forces on Europe will be linked with major chnage of mind discitions on the side of the other countries. If Japan will send any unit to Germany , USSR will concider it as a hostile move , mainly because of the Russian-Japan war eirlier in history and wil ldeclare war on the Axis. If Germany will attack France before taking Poland first will cause USA to join the allies right away. I am working for a way to cut USSR in two incase Germany will reach and take the last town close to the Urals. so letting the rest of USSR armies on the east to fight Japan. Do anyone know how to make a script that will make USSR soil turn to Germany in case a set of cities is captured? I thought of making USSR surender like France. But this will bother us a lot espesially if Japan is doing great onb the other side of the globe. If you know please advice. In about an hour i will have the new update of the Main screen. Christos Sideris

Along with some changes i took some time to make a better interface main picture. So here it is. I hope you like it! Also in the new update when you chooce sides Italy have been replaced with Japan. I chooce Yamamoto Isoroku as the representative hero on the side of Japan. Christos Sideris

Dear FerrisB, I took your notes underconcideration and have made some changes i would like you to talk about. I have made home build to all major countries. The Resources have been greatly lowered. If any Japan unit will ever land on Europe USSR will declare war on the Axis. The naval forces of the pacific have been greatly diminished. If France is attacked and Poland is not surrendered then the USA declares war on the Axis. These are the first part of the changes. FerrisB i will send you the new update. I hope you can make another game with your friend and give me more feedback. To all the rest please send me your emails so i can send you the newest version. Christos Sideris

Dear Wuestenfuchs, thank you for your comments. the think is that at least two major powers must be at war when the game starts. The war starts at the end of 1937 with the attack of Japan to China. England is at war with Germany but i have lowered the units of both Germany and England in order for them to need time to make them fully powered. The tests show that by the year 1939 they will have the power to start offencive war. Is your email generalfeldmarshall_rommel@yahoo.de so i can send yo uthe map and test it? Christos Sideris

Ok people i am Back, I would like to ask all the people that i have send the map to give me their feedback so i will be able to finish the map and post it out for everyone to enjoy. I await your feedback either here or on my mails chsideri@anco.gr or chsideris@yahoo.gr Christos Sideris

Dear friends, Thank you all for the support and your boosting words. I am leaving and when i will return on the 23 of October as a married man i will continue based on the feedback you will give me.So by the first days of November the Global World War 2 wil lbe ready for all to share. A final test i made shows that it takes 3 to 5 minutes for the computer to make it's turn . I have heared that in some modes it takes long (20-30 minutes). I hope it will not break the nerves of the players while playing. I await your feedback once i will return. Finally i want to note that the Japan's sprites were made by two other friends that started fixing the game. I have mentioned it in previous messages. The J&J team made them and i used them so the credits goes to them. These for now. Wish me luck . Christos

Ok dear friends, I have made some changes before i go. China wil ldeclare war on Japan if Japan will not attack China in the first two turns. They will attack in order to free Manchuria, Or try lol. I would like the testers to check this please: Once France is under German control Libia will join the African western coolition. Also once Poland have surendered Canada and India and australia join the war. Check also if Japan forces move closer to India if Burma will mobilize on axis side. Does anyone know how can i transfer lands from one country to another with the cobition the fall of a city? I want to tranfer all the USSR lands to Germany once Sverdlovsk is fallen to the Axis so the USSR will continue to fight but make life easier to the Axis. Christos

Ok people , I am getting married next week on October 14 so i will be away till the 23 of October. so anyone will need the turns please poast here the mail address so i can send him the map. I will be available untill tommorow. christos