Hinge of Fate (HOF) version 4 - WW2 1941 to 1945

[eric_A]

Introduction

Hinge of Fate (HOF) is the title for my global WW2 scenario for C3C. The name
comes from the title of one of the five volumes of Winston Churchill's war
memoirs. That volume dealt with the events of the years 1942-43, including
the decisive battles of Midway, El Alemain and Stalingrad.

Turns represent 1 month in real time. The game covers the period from Dec., 1941
until September, 1945. The civilizations in order of play (for multiplayer) are:

1. Nature
2. Japan
3. Germany
4. Russia
5. Minor Allies
6. British Empire
7. Minor Axis
8. USA

HOF V4 Brief Summary of Changes since V3

Minor Allied Infantry divisions now require rubber to build. Since there is no rubber in China this makes keeping the Burma road open vital to the Allied war effort. Without rubber the only infantry divisions produced in China will be the ones auto-produced by Stillwell's training camp.

Added new unit graphics for IJN light carrier and IJN destroyer, IJN CLAA, Kongo class BB and British Dido class CLAA.

Added 2 air transport units, 1 for Allies and 1 for Axis. Made Para divisions more costly, can no longer airlift or drop without air transport unit.

Added Flak tower City improvement for fascist govs. 4 main cities in Germany and 2 cities in Italy have towers at start,

Added Iron Ore treasure unit.

Added great wonder, Kiruna Mine in Narvik, autoproduces iron every 3 turns.

Reduced number of foreign workers in Germany, added more flak units, added worker in Norway.

Norway made more productive, larger population, more mines roads & factories

Added 1 more worker for Minor Axis.

Increased attack strength of IJN destroyers by 1 (long lance torpedoes)

Increased bombard strength of US destroyers by 1 (Radar)

Added hospital in Leningrad

Nature government tech change from feudalism to nature_tech to prevent other AI controlled civs from switching to nature government.

Added civilopedia entries for AI assist wonders

Reduced the number of Blizzard producing Russian cities, but keep number of starting blizzards the same (this is to simulate how unprepared the Germans were for the winter of 41-42, but were better equipped in later years).

Added new units (eg BB Kongo) to stealth attack lists for all subs.

For a complete description of the scenario, download this text file:

 

[eric_A]

Note: Atomic Gamer is no more, the big zip file is now on civforum.de.


The zip file contains all the graphics, sounds, leaderheads, etc..
This file is about 180 Mbytes. Copy it to your conquests\scenarios\
folder and extract the HOF_V4 folder. Use "extract here" to avoid the
folder in folder problem.

http://download.civforum.de/civ3/HOF_V4.zip

Southern Russia and the Balkans after heavy bombing:

 

[eric_A]

There are 4 .biq files in the zip.

1 Multiplayer
2 Multiplayer with Nov/41 Pre-turn
3 Single player for Russia
4 Single player for USA

More single player files to come, next will be a single player file for Germany.

 

[eric_A]

Scenario design: eric_A

Map: El Menecy

Map cropping: LouLong

Nature Units: Rhodie

(Screen Shot: The IJN got lots of new graphics in V4)

Military Units:
Wyrmshadow
Delta_Strife
Ares de Borg
Gary Childress
Top Gun
Riptide
Micaelis Rex
recon1591
Akula
TVA22
BrBro
vingrjoe
W.I.N.T.E.R.
CivArmy
Olorin0222
And others (my apologies if I forgot to mention you)

The final graphics update was this new US Washington treaty era heavy
cruiser by Delta_Strife:

 

[eric_A]

The AI got a major overhaul in Version 4. In most cases I removed
the ability to build the largest units such as tank corps and battleships.
The problem was the AI was never building any smaller units, this resulted
in too few units. Now the AI can build build some unit producing wonders
which auto-produce big units like tank corps and the cities now build
division sized units. All these new AI-assist wonders are described in the
civilopedia.

Russia - Single Player game:
You have a huge army but it has been decimated by heavy loses
so many of your units are understrength or conscripts. To make matters
worse your training organization has been stripped to replace combat loses
and by political purges (this is represented by the lack of barracks in many
Russian cities).
On the plus side you have some veteran reserves in the far east and in
route to the front. You also have plenty of resources. Then there is help from
your western allies in the form of the Lend Lease program. In this scenario
the Lend Lease is a wonder and this wonder will trigger a golden age for
Russia. To build it you must first research Mobile Warfare 2. You also start
the game in winter so you have the weather on your side in the form of
blizzard units.
Also you have the partisans which are handy for cutting the roads connecting
Germany to the front. But watch out for those border guard units along the German
and Italian borders, they can "see" your invisible units.

America - Single Player game:

As I did in the single player game for Japan, I made a number of the Pacific islands
(such as Wake and Tarawa) into cities in the single player Allied game. Also I added
a wonder to auto-produce destroyers (which the AI will not build) in Tokyo and another
to produce I-boats in Nagasaki. Japan is in a locked alliance with Nature in the single
player Allied game so they will not waste resources attacking Nature cities.

The Dutch East Indies Oil wonder in Palembang has been modified because the AI
will not ship oil. The wonder produces axis transport instead, so it is still worthwhile to
send some subs to hunt there. The unit support cost for Japan has been reduced from
2 to 1 to compensate for the lost oil income.

In Europe, the U-boat works has been moved from Kiel to Bordeaux to give the U-boats
direct access to the Atlantic.

More than any of the other Allied powers, America faces the dilemma of the 2 front war.
Which front to allocate resources to, Europe or the Pacific? Your AI British allies aren't
much help in Western Europe, since they don't like to invade. Both Eastern Europe and
China are possibilities, on those fronts the Russians and the Minor Allies are locked into
struggles which they can't avoid.

 

[eric_A]

None so far.

 

[Jureil]

GREAT JOB on a well done multiplayer Mod Eric I can't wait to learn more about it in the new PBEM game just started.

 

[Lionic]

Eric, that is truly interesting scenario. Playing as Japan I've already managed to loose Port Moresby (and a fleet of four cruisers inside) to malaria, lots of my transports and carriers to submarines. Very much surprises, I like it!

 

[eric_A]

The big zip file for this scenario can now be downloaded from civforum.de.
Here is the link:

http://download.civforum.de/civ3/HOF_V4.zip

Copy it to your conquests\scenarios\
folder and extract the HOF_V4 folder. Use "extract here" to avoid the
folder in folder problem.