WW2 Global Gold

WW2 Global Gold is a graphical update of Rocoteh´s (and Meateater´s) famous WW2 scenario and a kind of saying thank you to Rocoteh for all his great work.
I received the permission by Rocoteh for doing this update at the former SOC site and in this post you can read his comment about the update.

There are only some very small changes in gameplay, one of them making Russia an own culture group, setting the British Empire and the US in the same culture group and setting the skip-first-turn-flag for all civs but Germany, so now Germany invades Poland and not the other way.

Nothing was changed in the unit stats. Some abstract categories of naval units that were necessairy when that scenario was created, as many ships were not available as civ 3 units at that time, are now split up into the meanwhile available civ 3 units (per example the 1939 destroyer to several destroyers of different countries, but they all still have the same unit stats of the original 1939 destroyer).

WW2 Global Gold replaces the old units with the new units of SOE, adds WW2 leaderheads to the scenario and tons of other graphical stuff of SOE and provides Rocoteh´s brilliant scenario with a civilopedia. This is a betatest version as there is still some work to do, especially with the civilopedia.


Requirements:
- Civilization 3: Conquests version 1.22 or Civilization 3: Complete
- 2,25 GB disk space for the SOE Mainfile
- 3,73 MB disk space for the additional WW2 Global Gold files


Installation:




As WW2 Global Gold is connected to the SOE files, it is necessairy to install the SOE-mainfile in the same folder of C3C as WW2 Global Gold (different to SOE it is not necessairy to run WW2 Global Gold with the No-raze-Patch).

Edited May 29, 2019: That post will be rewritten and new download links will come later this year. The graphics will not be any longer connected to the SOE files but to an expanded new C3C mainfile coming with the next version of CCM2, allowing the easy update and addition of many unit graphics in this scenario.


Credits

Mod design:
Rocoteh and Meateater
The original WW2 Global scenario thread can be found here:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=107698
Map: Aeldrik and CellKu
Civilopedia:
Blue Lion/Civinator and the Wikipedia
Units:
Wyrmshadow,
Ares de Borg, BeBro, Delta Strife, Gary Childress, gwendoline,
Orthanc, rhodie, Ripptide, tom2050, TopGun, vingrjoe, W.i.n.t.e.r., Wotan49
Unitsounds:
texastarheel7
Leaderheads:
ccm01, CivArmy s. 1994, jorde, fixes by Vuldacon
Terrain:
Ares de Borg, Racc00n
Cities:
Sn00py, Smiley, Blue Lion/Civinator
Improvements, Wonders, Wonder Splashes and Flags:
aaglo, Ares de Borg, BadKharma, Bjornlo, Grumbl, Harlan, Heretic_Cata, Lusikka755, mrtn, Plotinus, R8XFT, ronning, Rufus T. Firefly, Spincrus, SWalker, Ukas, Blue Lion / Civinator
Civ 2 graphics (mainly used for unit32):
BeBro, kobayashi, fairline, Curt Sibling and lots of unknown other artists

If you find a piece of your work in the mod and you are not on the list, please let us know and we'll do our best to fix it.

WW2 Global Gold Leaderheads:

The WW2 Global Gold Civilopedia:

The civilopedia needs more additional work to bring it up to date.







The second row of flags was copied into the image.

Screenshots of WW2 Global Gold:

Now this is something

it's looking amazing thank u civinator

This looks spectacular, but I do have a question; what the HECK are those flat grey things in the France picture? I hate to nitpick on such an amazing update, but it's a huge eyesore imo.

There were so many things and changes announced, so I can't miss to try it. Thank you, Civinator, for your great work!

thanks for doing this, Civinator you make Roctoeh proud me too

Those "flat things" I assume are the graphics for the Maginot line Fortress units geminisama; at least, they are in the same positions where the fortresses are in earlier versions of the scenario, and I can't imagine what else they could be. What is that, a big tank trap?

Hum, I have been playing this scenario just by coincidence lately. Now what do I do, start another game? ....oh well, if I must, I must. It looks really good Civinator!

Thank you all for your kind words , so in this case for me it´s decisive, what Rocoteh thinks about it- and please don´t forget, the SOE files, WW2 Global Gold is connected to, are a team work.

Sasebo said:

Those "flat things" I assume are the graphics for the Maginot line Fortress units geminisama; at least, they are in the same positions where the fortresses are in earlier versions of the scenario, and I can't imagine what else they could be. What is that, a big tank trap?

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These "flat things" are not so flat as you think now. Sasebo, you are right, these "flat things" are heavy popup turrets, done by Wyrmshadow, and are part of the Maginot line.

Civinator said:

Thank you all for your kind words , so in this case for me it´s decisive, what Rocoteh thinks about it- and please don´t forget, the SOE files, WW2 Global Gold is connected to, are a team work.



These "flat things" are not so flat as you think now. Sasebo, you are right, these "flat things" are heavy popup turrets, done by Wyrmshadow, and are part of the Maginot line.

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Ahh, looks much better in action! I apologize if my post sounded a bit critical, I just wasn't sure what I was looking at. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try SOE and this scenario in the near future!

Recon1591 set the units in SOE in a way, that SOE can be easily used as a gigantic construction set for WW2 scenarios. With a few mouseclicks new operable units can be added or existing units can be changed. All you must do to the biq in the editor is the following:

1. A path in the Scenario Properties from the scenario (here WW2 Global Gold) to SOE:




2. A "copy and paste"-job of the SOE pediaicons-entry and the SOE unit-icons number to the biq of that scenario:




3. Most work could be to add or to change the civilopedia entry, but the changed or added unit is also operable without that entry.

So if you, let´s say, don´t like the graphic of the heavy popup turret, you can change the look of the fortress unit in WW2 Global with some clicks to tons of other fortress units, that exist (with sounds) in the SOE file -or even to a heavy mg-unit.

With this methode many existing elder WW2 scenarios can be easily upgraded to the new graphics and new WW2 scenarios can easily be created with minimal efforts. You only have to add to your scenario files what you want to change from SOE (p.e. sounds or some attack graphics for planes) or what doesn´t exist in SOE (p.e. in WW2 Global Gold city graphics with visible size 1 cities had to be added to the Ww2 Global Gold mainfile as in SOE the city graphics for size-1-cities are transparent).

check:
FILE NOT FOND
Art\Flics\Art\Flics\castilla_ind.flc

Peru.

Haddu said:

check:
FILE NOT FOND
Art\Flics\Art\Flics\castilla_ind.flc

Peru.

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This is an error. Here by mistake the path Art\Flics was copied twice to the leader entry. I will correct this immediately with a new biq. Haddu thank you very much for reporting this error.

Still check:
Art\Units\J041 Chi-Ha\AttackA.flc
Art\Units\U071 Baltimore CA Class\Fidget.flc (INI)

Haddu said:

Still check:
Art\Units\J041 Chi-Ha\AttackA.flc
Art\Units\U071 Baltimore CA Class\Fidget.flc (INI)

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Thank you very much again for reporting these errors, Haddu. In both entries one letter is missing. This must be corrected manually until a new mainfile or a patch is comming out for fixing these errors. Current games can be continued when these errors are fixed manually (other than the error in the biq with the Peruan leaderhead).

Congratulations for finishing this scenario.

When I make scenario , I then put all unit to map and start game to see if game will start. If something with unit is wrong, the game will eject you out. Then you can repair what is wrong. That process work because when I was playing my own scenarios, I never have problems with units error.