Well, I think my German game is about finished in Fall 1942. Meinen Soldaten have blitzkrieged their way from Glasgow to Grozny. Once the Allied back was broken in late 1941, victory was assured. After the penetration to Moscow, my forces split essentially into three army groups. Both Leningrad and Stalingrad were captured June 1941, while the Center group reached the Urals by early '42. The Italians and Bulgarians continued to get in the way down south but captured some key cities in the Ukraine, while resistance in the Crimea was grueling. In Britain, after the fall of London, the steamroller couldn't be stopped and every turn was an advance. The Royal Navy was smashed, and three USN battleships were savaged by air attacks. My forces in north and south Norway finally linked up in 1942, but the country remains unconquered. I even made a nice treaty with the Irish.
Congratulations to your victory.
I hope next time it will become more difficult to early conquer Russia and Britain. The experimental gap around Tarnopol is closed, as it was enough to dim down the German AI, but not a human player who throws all his units through that gap. The same with the road from France to Dover. That border-terrain now is changed to border-terrain where no roads can be built.
What difficulty level did you play?
With the monarchy moved to Canada, the Anglo-Americans sue for a separate peace. Alexandria had fallen and Cairo becomes a German protectorate. Russian forces will continue to fight a guerilla war for years to come. Although I wanted to see some of the late game technologies, it's time to call it quits as my turns mostly involve a few battles and much shifting of units. Often it can be difficult to stick it out to the official end, since I require many more victory points, so we'll celebrate with a parade.
For later versions of SOE I consider to add the "Greatest Fieldmarshall of ALL Times"-Victory, a conversion of the space-victory in C3C. In theory it should be possible to give different civs different "space-victories". So may be Russia could achieve this victory if it is able to build victory columns in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, Britain/US if they can build victory columns in Moscow, Stalingrad, Berlin and Rome, Germany in London, Paris, Moscow and Stalingrad and so on. Each of the different "spaceship parts" = victory columns has a wonder that is placed in that city as a perequisite.
Mussolini small leaderhead has magenta background and needed reindexed. This is for the Art>Advisors folder. I attached a new one at the end of the post.
Thank you very much.
There are some more leaderheads with palette problems, especially some leaderheads from CivArmy used in WW2 Global.
The locked alliances are simply called Alliance 1, 2, 3, 4. Perhaps, Axis, Western Allies, etc. might be nice?
That´s a very good idea!
There's an extra space open at Suez that allows non-British traffic into North Africa. I spent a lot of time fighting the French. Is this something you might want to close off?
Yes, this is intended. The main reason is, that the ownership of Suez by one civ (per example Italy) shouldn´t block an allied civ (per example Germany) from advancing on land to other enemies (per example Russia).
War weariness became a serious problem by 1942, even with luxuries maxed out at 50%. What's wrong with these people, don't they enjoy living in occupied Europe? I spent a lot of the late game dealing with all the revolts and unhappiness.
Did you rebuild all the cathedrales, cimemas and other buildings that provide happiness? May be it could be a good idea to remove culture from these buildings, so they are not always lost when a city is conquered. All Governments are set to have no war weariness.
The Battle for the Atlantic was very quiet after the initial naval battle. I saw very little coming from Canada or the U.S. and my U-boat crews were picking their noses.
As nobody reported a MUA with the current settings of SOE, may be some more autoproduced naval units, starting at convoys from US and convoys from Canada can be added.
Speaking of Britain, I not only got the French Battleship but two King George V's! But also, I was able to autoproduce British commandos, spitfires, Russian tank battalions, etc. Have you though of making these improvements go obsolete with a non-era German technology, à la MEM? I can understand the Germans capturing a half-built battleship, but the British commandos seemed funny.
Yes this must be fixed.
Making them obsolete with the German tech could be one solution, but what is, if Russia or Italy capture these british buildings.? I think it´s better to connect them to the British form of government. The result should be the same.
The game overall is excellent and you and the team have done a fine job. I'll try the Brits or the Soviets next with the new version. Looking forward to finally having tank battalions! Great work and I hope I can provide some more feedback to help the cause.
AnthonyBoscia, thank you very much for kind words and your great help in improving SOE.