Overlord Scenario Playtest Thread

[civ2units]

Until now everything works fine. I didn´t noticed bugs. While I´m waiting for my turn I can see that there is a lot of fightings in Europe. The Germans conquered Tirana and Saloniki, a german Paratrooper landed in L'vov.

 

[civ2units]

Hi there, some good info, thanks! Really useful!
Save files are OK if something buggy happens.

I am also adding some new events for the faction versions.

Sounds good.

 

[civ2units]

June 1941, north of Manchuria

 

[CurtSibling]

You are showing those lousy soviets a lesson! Keep rolling -

 

[techumseh]

It looks like a fun scenario, CS.

 

[CurtSibling]

@civ2units
Thanks for this playthrough - It will iron out any bugs in the base events and play.
The events files tailored for each faction will make things much more tricky and fun.

I plan to have the Japanese dealing with random US marine and Allied suprise raids.
Not to mention making the far-away Barbarossa campaign much more pivotal.

Cheers, and if you notice anything about unit balance you think feels needs
changed up, let me know! In the meantime, here are some updated Game
and City files to drop in your folder!

 

[civ2units]

You are showing those lousy soviets a lesson! Keep rolling -

Thanks. It's always a pleasure to kick these communist freaks in their asses. Khabarovsk should be conquered the next few turns, after that Blagoveshchensk will be next target.

Good to see that the Führer far west also fights against the communists. I think this is making things a little bit easier.

 

[civ2units]

@civ2units
Thanks for this playthrough - It will iron out any bugs in the base events and play.
The events files tailored for each faction will make things much more tricky and fun.

I plan to have the Japanese dealing with random US marine and Allied suprise raids.
Not to mention making the far-away Barbarossa campaign much more pivotal.

Cheers, and if you notice anything about unit balance you think feels needs
changed up, let me know! In the meantime, here are some updated Game
and City files to drop in your folder!

The Japanese civ has a huge potential, it's good to hear that you are planning to create special events for them.

The units stats are in a good balance to each other. At least there is always a good unit to fight against it's counterpart.
Marines, for example, are very useful against Partisans with an hitpoint of 5, especially in the chinese mainland. Unfortunately
I've lost two Destroyers and some Infantry until I figured this out.

Btw, nice city graphics.

 

[civ2units]

June 1941
Turn 7

Military operations in China, Southeast Asia and Siberia are still going on. I've lost a bomber during the bombing of Khabarovsk. Instead of this a lot of chinese Partisans where defeated by our Marines and Artillery. Also fine.
And I found the american carrier, which sank quickly after my Battleship arrived.

 

[civ2units]

July 1941
Turn 8

Conquered Changteh in China, Kan Tang in Thailand and Khabarovsk in the Soviet Union.

 

[CurtSibling]

Nice work - What are your strategic plans? Are you going to make a drive for India, or go for Australia?

 

[JPetroski]

Curt, how did you get the little anchor to show up near Vladivostok? Its a nice touch. Did you place your own special resources?

 

[CurtSibling]

@JPetroski


Yeah, it's just a resource.

 

[civ2units]

Nice work - What are your strategic plans? Are you going to make a drive for India, or go for Australia?

I´m going for Australia. Before I can do that I have to defeat China and the Brits in Southeast Asia. So there are many battles before me.
I´m looking forward to december, 1941. Maybe you give me via events some nice naval and airforce units for attacking Pearl Harbor.

 

[civ2units]

August 1941
Turn 9

Some minor battles in China. Currently moving my great army towards Blagoveshchensk, trying to capture the next soviet industrial center.
Does it make sense to use my Superbattleship against the British Garrison in Hong Kong? I will try it out.

 

[civ2units]

September 1941
Turn 10

Ready for attacking Blagoveshchensk.
Meanwhile, my Superbattleship defeated one Garrison unit in Hong Kong. Again minor battles in China. I definitelly need more Artillery.

 

[civ2units]

October 1941
Turn 11

My glorious army captured Blagoveshchensk, Canton and Pantow. These Partisans are some hard nuts. I lost a D3A Bomber and a Type-97 Chi-Ha Tank while attacking them.

 

[CurtSibling]

You are doing well! I am sad to report that this "beta" version of the scenario does not spawn a ton of units for the Japanese player.
It is assumed the human player will stockpile his own units for pushes against the AI. Although when you made your move on the
Allies early on, there is a large amount of gold given via events...

 

[civ2units]

Thanks.
Currently I´m using the stockpile strategy for attacking enemy cities. It works but it needs some time.
Maybe you could make the units, at least the generic ones a little bit cheaper for production.

 

[civ2units]

November 1941
Turn 12

My army captured Dungun. The gates to Singapore are open now. Meanwhile two japanese Destroyers destroyed two american Submarines.