Historical Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

[daphoene]

The 1st October 1936, the rebel trops have taken half of the peninsula, and the Gral. Francisco Franco declared himself like "Caudillo de España"...


I put so much time on this scenery, but It's not too much tested, so I will appreciate feedback...

what you can expect at the present:

* Historically accurate positions ( and names ) of cities, units, airfields, ships, borders...
* An extense & almost perfect map of Spain & Portugal (160x160) made by me.
* Historical balance of troops by type.
* Militar & Scientific leader names ( and other civ leader names )

* Graphical mods on terrain, buildings and resources.
* The most historical railways lines I could found.
* Ambient music composed by songs of the civil war and contemporary "hits".
* Accurate gold reserves for each combat faction, "hurry production" represent the units each faction buy to Russia and Germany and Italia ( the most of them ) which is a main aspect of this war that can't be represented in other way.
* So much documentation on doing this

what you can't expect at the moment: ( I think this isn't a very good marketing trick )

* Civilization Advances; the tech tree is stopped, focussed on army strategy ( Perhaps an update with special moments of the war, or wonders giving unique units...but really we only fight, no so much ( if any ) spanish advances in this war )
* No special graphical units, some of the original with a custom touch.


INSTALLATION:


· If you want only the map:

download the v1 file and place it on CONQUEST/SCENERY folder

· If you want to add terrain mods:

download the file you want ( see note "a"), place it on CONQUEST/SCENERY,
download the HSCW zip, uncompress, and copy paste the folder HSCW on
CONQUEST/SCENERY folder

· If you want to add the music:

download the music zip, and uncompress
place the folders Art & Text in the CONQUEST/SCENERY/HSCW folder ( create it if it's not yet ) If you experience any crash, almost sure is for this. Move the file music in Text folder to anywhere and so with the sounds folder. And give feedback, please.


NOTES:

a) the v1 file is the map without units,
the v2 file is the same map plus units,
the HSCW file is the last version of the file, wich requires the extra zip.

b) There are too much units in the map, place yourself in the v1 version if you want to play a shorter game, but IT IS FAST: LESS THAN 1,5 minutes to load. ( PIV 1.4Ghz 768 MB Ram ) ( yes, the more complex version of the game at the moment ). Anywhere, better if you turn off the animations, or the turns could be very long.
c) The game itself doesn't have a finish, It has 1000 turns & a 99% of terrain domination tag, but you can change this on the editor; It's my taste, but It could be fixed if you want.

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Finally, like I said before, I will appreciate any feedback. And this will be a nice start point for any other scenery based on Spain, feel free to use & modify it. I will not expect the Nobel for this, only for my haircut

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UPDATE (06/22/06):
* Added railroads ( hard work, deleting the lines opened from October 1936 :S, if any has a map of
the railroads of Spain in 1936 or so....)
* Added graphics mods, from too many authors I am infinitely thankful. I merged some pcx so
the zip is not too much heavy. I will try to mentione all credits when finished.
* Added songs of the civil war and any other for ambient reasons. I Think they are copyright
free, because they were recorded on that years ( 70 years ago ) If It's not so, please advise me
* Improved units movement by autonomy (planes) & rate of move in the war, also the damage.

When this technical things were tested and the game really balanced, I will try to put unique units and their real stats. which makes one of the mayor flavors of this type of games, sorry for my limitations at the moment, I'm human already.
* Improved gold for each combat faction, based on many sources comparisons and divise
changes etc...


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THE NEW FILES ARE BELOW, IN POST 3 ( someone know how to put in this post the files ? thanks )

 

[The Loser]

looks great

Portugal and France give it the extra thing it needs
will play it this weekend

 

[daphoene]

The new files and screens....

I had to split the HSCW.zip in two zips, that contains part1.rar and part2.rar, only decompress the zips and then open the first rar, and decompress it again, it takes the second already. This is due to uploading limitations ( almost for me, 500 kb/file )

And so I'll post the music when the 3Ddownloads page accept my file , It will be soon, sure...

It looks much pretty now, you don't have yet any reason to not try it....

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The Loser : Thaks, but try this, is quite superior, and improved, I make this scenery some time ago, and had forgotten to balance some things, and now they are better, like the real money, railways etc. Also, It looks much better, I promisse you.

Finally, I think there is a reasonable dude on realism when a single railway line transports ten divisions of panzers in only one week ( or a hundred panzer divisions and the mothers of all of them >8/ )....Is something which could be fixed avoiding railways and increasing the road rate movement....( The nice railroad graphics could be preserved as roads, but not both the roads and railway graphics... ) What do you think on this ?

 

[The Loser]

yeah, if you treat the railroads as roads you'll fix the problem.
On the other hand, isn't it normal to go to the other part of Spain in one day by train?
It's something you'll have to try out ;-)

 

[daphoene]

Yes, today, with a high-speed train, but the terrain here is more complex than you can see in a map. I live 280 km left to my girlfriend, and by highway & by simple road, It tooks to me more than 3 hours in a car, and by train, up to seven or more. Today. Of course this is by mountains, in plains is different, but the main idea is that I'm not 12 divisions of panzers .

In any case, I hope you can enjoy this, I felt bad for posting the first version, so incomplete, and your post had forced me to make it better. Thanks.-

 

[Chato]

Hi!

I´d need some help: I´m trying to install the .biq files but it only recognizes .bic scenarios. Please, what is the problem?

Thanks a lot from Spain.

 

[Stazro]

This Scenario is for Civ 3 Conquests. Conquests uses "biq"-files. Probably you only have the original game without expansions, which uses "bic"-files. So the problem is the version you are using.
Go, get Conquests!

By the way: Welcome to Civfanatics!

 

[Heptadelphoi]

Added to my scenarios collection, thanks!

PD: You forgot Canary island, Ceuta, Melilla and north Morocco's Protectorate... ( in 'Apolyton spanish civilization' u can find another one with it, even is included international help).

Anyways is better having two different scenarios than only one, good work guy.

 

[daphoene]

Yes, I forgot them, but with intention. That zones played a role in the beggining of the war, but this scenery begins in October 1936, when the balance is yet stablished, ready to play with civIII, otherwise the game will be so difficult. Finally, I could not update the music, which gives it a reasonable feeling, I will try to post it in my new space at rapidshare, but I can't promisse nothing by now, perhaps on April or in this summer. I will divide the forces of them by 10 or by 5, to make a new shorter release. And probably post too a reconquista scenery based on the same map, which cost me some effort to make accurate to reality, and I think is one of the better for Spain and Portugal. I don't know if said it before, but feel free to use or modify it without any permission. Sorry for the late on this post, but I need to know any feedback already.

Many thanks to all.