1941 WBS scenario for BTS

[Agent327]

I guess whether you can call the invasion in 1945 a skirmish is debatable.

Not really: the Japanese Manchuria Army got decisively beaten - and doing that to an entire army isn't a skirmish, it's an example of full-scale war (as soon as the Red Army was able to, i.e. after the defeat of Nazi Germany; given this, the Pacific war-option may very well have been Japan's best bet - even if that didn't pay off either.)

My Suggestions for Improvements:
1) Add Communist China under Mao Zedong as an ally of the Soviet Union and give them a few cities in the western-central China. To make this possible, I'd probably remove the Free French.

They Chinese Communists controlled only one limited area (Yehan) during WW II; their main contribution to the war effort was not fighting the Nationalists until they had gathered enough strength (and support) in 1949 - three years after WW II ended. That being said, it might still be worth while to replace the Free French with the CCP, as they were mainly active in the African-European war theatre.

2) I know this may not be very realistic, but I was thinking to give some anti-tank capability to the Nationalist Chinese so they can resist a Japanese invasion.

The Japanese army never had any medium or heavy tanks during their WW II campaigns, so the Chinese should be able to resist (and even retake some territory from ) the Japanese as is - with the Allies providing support in equipment.

Otherwise, I quite agree.

 

[das]

I really think that Spain ought to be allowed to leave neutrality (or at least to be invaded), given that this is not supposed to be a strictly historical scenario. It certainly could be a strategically viable move for either side, and Hitler did at some point want to coopt Franco one way or another.

 

[Dowling]

Why when I go to play this does it say you have been defeated at the very beginning and quit to main menu no matter what civilization i choose?

 

[el_hidalgo]

I really think that Spain ought to be allowed to leave neutrality (or at least to be invaded), given that this is not supposed to be a strictly historical scenario. It certainly could be a strategically viable move for either side, and Hitler did at some point want to coopt Franco one way or another.

I am coming around to that point of view. I plan to incorporate that suggestion in the next version. Thanks!

 

[el_hidalgo]

Why when I go to play this does it say you have been defeated at the very beginning and quit to main menu no matter what civilization i choose?

That's weird. I have seen that behavior before, usually when there is some error in the WBS file. I am able to run it without that error, though, even with the new version. That's maybe one thing to check: are you running the latest version or at least the one before that? If not you may need to install the patch first. Just in case you don't know already, just go to "check for updates" in the main menu, I think under "advanced." I hope it's something that simple... unfortunately it rarely is.

 

[it-ogo]

This is really very playable scenario, indeed maybe the best global WWII one. Still there is a strange thing: Ibn Saud has a great army in the cities of North and Central Europe - aircraft, panzers and so on. I suspect that army should belong to Reich.

 

[el_hidalgo]

This is really very playable scenario, indeed maybe the best global WWII one. Still there is a strange thing: Ibn Saud has a great army in the cities of North and Central Europe - aircraft, panzers and so on. I suspect that army should belong to Reich.

Thank you! And whoops! You are correct about Ibn Saud's mystery army. Um, I will have to fix that, and some other things too....

Sorry for the delayed reply; I guess my notifications were turned off or something.

 

[Blake4000]

Good job with the custom flags, adds a sense of realism, and I spotted the Arabian army in germany cities also, and wondered what it was lol. As Germany i closed to border with arabia to get them out. however, fixing this would be great. I also thought that Germany controling most of africa was unrealistic at best, and the germans seemed to have too much power. Is this because of balance issues or something? I agree, with others, add a communist chinese city in there(custom flag) and they can be supported by soviets and allied if desired. Other than that, its an awesome world war 2 scenario, my fav.

 

[el_hidalgo]

Good job with the custom flags, adds a sense of realism, and I spotted the Arabian army in germany cities also, and wondered what it was lol. As Germany i closed to border with arabia to get them out. however, fixing this would be great. I also thought that Germany controling most of africa was unrealistic at best, and the germans seemed to have too much power. Is this because of balance issues or something? I agree, with others, add a communist chinese city in there(custom flag) and they can be supported by soviets and allied if desired. Other than that, its an awesome world war 2 scenario, my fav.

Thanks! I did give the Germans the French colonies in Africa, but I realize this is historically inaccurate. I'm going to fix that. I was trying to give the Germans more power for balance reasons, yes, but I may have tipped it too far in the other direction. They still should be the underdogs here.