HOF Version 3 - "Test Run"

[Lanzelot]

Ok, I played at home now. But still, if anybody knows the solution to the above problem, I'd appreciate it. 'Cause that netbook will be my constant companion from now on, and if I can play HOF on it, I can respond faster.

Trying to repair the broken fragments of my empire...

Submarine attacks BB New York, but sinks.

Three HB bombard Firefly Army near Hamburg: 9/9 -> 7/9 Guderian Army group kills it.

German Inf Corp (attack value 12) attacks British Marine division (defense value 4) and dies!
(This is not my game.) Guderian attacks and finally kills it. Antwerpen retaken.

Panzer Army attacks US marine in Bordeaux and retakes town.

Artillery bombards British Inf div near Kiel and misses. HA reduces one hitpoint. Panzer div attacks and defeats that Inf div. An Inf div then recaptures Kiel.

LA bombards conscript Rifle Corp between Minsk & Moscow and hits. Elite Inf div attacks and dies. Vet Inf attacks and wins. Two MB bombard units near Minsk, one is shot down. Elite Inf div kills Cavalry.

Lanzelot

 

[eric_A]

Sept/42

VP location SW of Moscow:
bombard by 6 FA, 3 HA
1st Siberian Front (10/11) kills FD & 2 inf divs
Rifle army (1/5) kills inf div
T34/85 corp kills FA, captures 2 HA

N of Batumi
Bombard by 3 DD, 1 CA, 2 DB, 2 fighters
damages 2 M. axis inf corps (3/5 & 4/5)

Helsinki bombarded by BB, DD, CA, FT
1 inf corp slightly damaged

 

[eric_A]

Eric, I have a problem:

File not found error:
art\units\kgv\..\Battleship\BattleshipRun.wav

I tried to play today on a laptop on which I had installed the German edition of Conquests. I did all the necessary adjustments to the PediaIcons.txt file as are necessary for a localized Civ installation. (I.e. rename all standard Civ3 units to their German equivalent, like Settler -> Siedler, Spearman -> Lanzenkämpfer, etc.)

I also renamed Battleship to Kriegsschiff like this:

#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Battleship
Kriegsschiff

The BattleshipRun.wav file does exist in the following location:
C:\Program Files\Infogrames\Civilization III\Art\units\Kriegsschiff\BattleshipRun.wav

Still I get the above error. Attached is my PediaIcon.txt. Any idea?
Otherwise I need to wait till I get back home and try again on my English C3C installation.

Cheers, Lanzelot

Lanzelot:
I won't have time to look at the pedia file until the weekend.

 

[aksully]

Minor Allies Turn Summary - Sep 1942
-MB Destroys Road N of Hankow
-SS Sunk attacking BC 4TsW of Ceylon

GPS to CW
Sully

 

[That-Guy]

GPS

CW Sub on station near Athens spots big ol' heap of MAx fleet.

Home Front:
MB destroys road with Furs W of Berlin
HB damages flak on oil near Koln.
Dover guns bombard Guderian army in Antwerp 14/22.
MB destroys R with Saltpeter on hill 1E of Koln.



N Africa:
-1S of Athens
Lanc reduces CA Bolzano 1/3.
Lanc lost to flak.
MB makes CA Goriza 1/3.
TB makes BB veneto 1/2.
MB makes BB Littorio 1/2.
MB makes CL Aosta 1/2.
CL Penelope sunk by CL Garibaldi 3/3.
CW Sub sinks BB Veneto.
Force K DD Flotilla sinks CL Garibaldi 2/4.
DB sinks BB Littorio
CL Ajax sinks CL Bari 2/4.
DB sinks CA Bolzano.
DB sinks CA Goriza.
DD Penn sinks CL Aosta 3/3.

-4S of Athens
BB Queen Elizabeth makes DD Navigatori 1/3.
BB Resolution sinks 3/3.

-2 NE of Benghazi
BB Valiant makes German FT 1/3.
CLAA Euryalus sinks 4/4.

-Oran
Naval bombardment destroys Biplane.
Naval and air bombardment reduces Inf Corp to 1/4 and ID to 3/4.
CLAA Hermione cuts R 1NE of Oran.

SE Asia:
MB bombards ID 3/4 W of Mandalay.
HB makes 2/4.

 

[eric_A]

Eric, I have a problem:

File not found error:
art\units\kgv\..\Battleship\BattleshipRun.wav

I tried to play today on a laptop on which I had installed the German edition of Conquests. I did all the necessary adjustments to the PediaIcons.txt file as are necessary for a localized Civ installation. (I.e. rename all standard Civ3 units to their German equivalent, like Settler -> Siedler, Spearman -> Lanzenkämpfer, etc.)

I also renamed Battleship to Kriegsschiff like this:

#ANIMNAME_PRTO_Battleship
Kriegsschiff

The BattleshipRun.wav file does exist in the following location:
C:\Program Files\Infogrames\Civilization III\Art\units\Kriegsschiff\BattleshipRun.wav

Still I get the above error. Attached is my PediaIcon.txt. Any idea?
Otherwise I need to wait till I get back home and try again on my English C3C installation.

Cheers, Lanzelot

I didn't see any problem in the pediaicon file, how about the .ini file?

 

[semental]

Batumi - Bombed - killed citizens

Helsinki - Finn 1st Corp (4/6) kills 72/90 Fortress dev.

Alexandria - bombed roads.

Tobruk - damaged lt tank div and planes lost 2 MBs

 

[muzbang]

USA REPPORT

France : BRest
Coastal defense destroyed
UNit bombarded in Brest by US BB

Japan

at sea :
Sub sunk by DD Dunlap

in the country
Militia bombarded by US BB on a wine tile
Many roads bombarded by US ships

Center Pacific :


US sub sinks CA Atago
US sub sinks BB Mutsu

US Sub sinks CL Nagara

US ASW Bombarded Japanese Sub
US Heavy Cruser sinks Japanese Sub

 

[aksully]

It would seem the Battle for the Pacific Ocean has taken a new turn...for the better!! It is a Wind that is blowing from the WEST!!! And that My Lovelies means....the US!!! GO MUZ!!!!

Sully

 

[Blaze Injun]

Hey

It would seem the Battle for the Pacific Ocean has taken a new turn...for the better!! It is a Wind that is blowing from the WEST!!! And that My Lovelies means....the US!!! GO MUZ!!!!

Sully

That would be a EAST wind Sully. To Americans at least.

Thanks to all for a good read.

Blaze Injun

 

[Knutis]

Central Pacific:

IJN BB Ise sinks US SS Nautilus
IJN Val sinks US SS
IJN DD Ushio sinks US SS


Indian Ocean:
IJN SS sinks CW(?) SS

IJN SNLF captures undefended Bombay
CV Hermes destroyed in port
IJA Inf Div killed by CW Light Tank Div
IJA 14th Army kills CW Med Tank Div
IJA 14th Army kills CW Light Tan Div

Madras:
TB sinks CW transport
IJA Marine Div kills CW Inf Div
IJA Marine Dive kills CW Inf Div
City captured

Siberia:
IJA Inf Div kills Rus FArty
IJA Inf Div kills Rus Static Def outside Vladivistoc
bombarded Irkutsk

 

[aksully]

Ahh..the Blaze Comments...actually Blaze I meant it as a pun of East Wind, Rain...in Reverse!!! Or something like that.........ya follow?

Now what is more important is??? Did you have a sex change? Your Avatar is..well..Attractive! Now I know I'm dating myself here but..there is a little resemblence to one of my '70s crushes..Lynda Carter!

OK..Back to working on my taxes!!!

 

[Lanzelot]

I didn't see any problem in the pediaicon file, how about the .ini file?

Hmm, the ini file in that directory (C:\Program Files\Infogrames\Civilization III\Art\units\Kriegsschiff\) was named "Kriegsschiff.ini". But as I remember from other scenarios (which I got running on a German C3C version), this is not a problem. Nevertheless I renamed it to Battleship.ini, but it didn't make a difference.

I made a copy of the entire directory and named it "Battleship", then the error was gone. However, I got a new one: art\units\China_WWII\..\Rifleman\RiflemanRun.wav
and after that another one: art\units\Fletcher_DD\..\Destroyer\DestroyerRun.wav.

There is something in common: do you notice the path always has a ".." in it? I guess this concerns all your custom units, which "reuse" graphics of the standard units, is this possible? E.g. the Fletcher_DD unit tries to reuse the standard Destroyer graphics, and doesn't find them.
Where in the scenario is this "mapping" (China_WWII --> Rifleman, Fletcher_DD --> Destroyer, etc.) defined? If I could adjust it the same way I adjusted the PediaIcons.txt, then I could save myself the trouble of creating all those unit folder copies...

Thanks, Lanzelot

 

[Lanzelot]

PS: never mind, I found it: it's hard-coded in the ini files, for example in KGV.ini:

[Sound Effects]
BLANK=
DEFAULT=
WALK=
RUN=..\Battleship\BattleshipRun.wav
ATTACK1=..\Battleship\BattleshipAttack.amb
...

And similarly in China_WWII.ini, Fletcher_DD.ini.
Oh well, that doesn't make it easier... (Why did these stupid Fireaxis developers never read a basics guide about internationalization... )

 

[Lanzelot]

Submarine attacks BB New York and sinks it! Another sub attacks CA Quincy, but sinks.

Eastern Front: HB shoots down Russian interceptor. A few roads bombarded.

Nobody took any of my towns this month?! Quite a change...

(Why do we have these Christmas hats back??)

 

[eric_A]

Submarine attacks BB New York and sinks it! Another sub attacks CA Quincy, but sinks.

Eastern Front: HB shoots down Russian interceptor. A few roads bombarded.

Nobody took any of my towns this month?! Quite a change...

(Why do we have these Christmas hats back??)

Lanz:
File got corrupted somehow, can you resend?

 

[Lanzelot]

Ok, I resent.

 

[muzbang]

I won't be able to play before sunday evening...

 

[eric_A]

Oct /42

Rostock captured by Soviet Marines

3 Rail tiles near Rostock degraded to
roads by Naval bombard

S of Irkutsk:
FA damages para div
Far East Front (5/12) kills 2 para divs

Near Lanchow - red army destroys road

W of Helsinki:
Massive artillery barrage redlines 2 FDs
FD destroyed by Bryansk Front (11/11)
FD destroyed by Kalinin Front (9/11)

 

[aksully]

Minor Allies Oct 1942 Turn Summary

-1/4 Colonial Inf Div Kills MAx For Legion 2 T N of Harcourt
-1/4 Colonial Inf Div Kills MAx For Legion 2 T N of Harcourt

-P40 Kills Zero near Ichang
-B25 Destroys Road SW of Hanchow
-B25 Redlines 39th Inf Div 1 T SW of Ichang
-2 B25s Bomb Tank Div 1 T NE of Ichang

GPS CW
Sully