Response to Willemvanoranje's Review

[kobayashi]

First, a word of thanks for such a thorough review. Since Case has started a new custom, let me follow through.

Though this scenario wasn’t meant to be played as a single player scenario, it is a very good scenario for this. It adds something to the game in a way I can’t describe, but it comes down to the fact that you need to think better and it’s more about tactics than usual.

My orginal intention was to let it be a multiplayer scenario - but not many people wanted to play multiplayer, so it slowly evolved to allow single players. I am quite glad it turned out this way - makes it apart from other great scenarios like Red Front which ZWK could never compare with.

Some problems (kindly not mentioned by WillemO) are a legacy of the multiplayer intention. German AI only uses its trops sparringly and sometimes a torp turns up on land. Allies AI lands bombers on its carriers


A very nice effect of the Axis, wanted or not, is that everything is very real. In the beginning you will conquer Europe with ease using the Blitzkrieg tactic, but later on when the enemy has better tanks and air defences, the Blitzkrieg won’t work anymore.

Wanted.


Just take a look at the pics of the tech trees kobayashi included and you see that it takes time to make such a tech tree. It’s an almost perfect tech tree without disfunctional or useless technologies.

Thank you. Thank you. (bow) I must say I am a graduate of the 'tree before anything else' school of scenario making. (mentioned in a much earlier thread)


Now either kobayashi made a mistake and thought he was working on an other scenario, or he really thought about this message and is refering to his Star Trek scenarios when talking about the Galaxy saving mission.

The game file is originally from ST BAQ. I decided to leave it there as a trademark - it sort of means "I'm going to play my star trek scenario now instead".


Only about the documentation I can say something: the readme is very large and complete, but links to one or more sites or reference to books would’ve been great.

The Russian Battlefield
http://history.vif2.ru/

Royal Navy and WWII
http://www.naval-history.net/WW2193909.htm

Rod's Warbird Photos
http://www.warbirdpix.com/

Luftwaffe Archive
http://www.luftarchiv.de/

Panzer Battles
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gjlingen/

The History Place WWII Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

Operation Barbarossa
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/2941/index.html

Kursk Rediscovered
http://www.historynet.com/WorldWarII/articles/1998/0298_text.htm

Military History WWII
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/wwii.html

WWII in Yugoslavia
http://www.wargamer.com/sp/ww2/

The World at War
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm

Afrika
http://www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/

Koran Zuse and his Computers
http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse/index.html

Uboat Net
http://uboat.net/index.html

Feldgrau.com
http://www.feldgrau.com/

The Axis Powers
http://baby.indstate.edu/gga/gga_cart/gecar153.htm

Tanks!
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/

Red Steel
http://www.algonet.se/~toriert/introduction.htm

Jagdpanther's Tank Site
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/7898/

Russian Military Power
http://members.tripod.com/~ViktoRus/index.html

Achtung Panzer
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzer.htm

A World of Tanks
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1975/g_wot_hp.htm

US Strategic Bombing Survey
http://www.anesi.com/ussbs02.htm

Aviation History On Line Museum
http://www.aviation-history.com/

Luftwaffe Resource Center
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/index.html

Watson's WWII Aricraft
http://canopus.lpi.msk.su/~watson/wwiiap.html

Luft 46
http://users.visi.net/~djohnson/luft46.html

Russian Aviation Museum
http://hep2.physics.arizona.edu/~savin/ram/

Planes and Pilots of WWII
http://home.att.net/~C.C.Jordan/index.html

NLS Bomber Command
http://www.lexicom.ab.ca/~nanton/aircraftother.html

USAF in WW2
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1956/index.html
RAF History
http://www-saw.arts.ed.ac.uk/raf/history.html#ww2

Kriegsmarine Encyclopedia
http://www.german-navy.de/marine.htm

And dozens of sites which didn't exist anymore when I went back to check just now.