The Balkan front, 1940-1941

[Tanelorn]

Working title.
First post reserved.

 

[Tanelorn]

Southern part of the map ready (Battle of Crete/ Operation Merkur only)

 

[Tanelorn]

The last three are mods based on Jamestout's style.
City placement done. Will try TheNamelessone's Civitas utility tomorrow.

 

[JPetroski]

I'm very pleased to see this - I'm a big fan of the operational WW2 scenarios. Are you planning on using lua?

 

[Tanelorn]

Good to know that. Yes, eventually I hope will be able to.
Great online city population timeline tool. http://population.city/
Civitas is already an improvement civcity, you can set also set city population, in addition to improvements and ownership.

 

[Tanelorn]

1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Tymbaki sector:

Possibility for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Matapan also included.

Welch fusilliers regiment(not a typo) 1st battalion, Akrotiri, Suda bay. Ocd fix on the Argyll Highlanders.

 

[Tanelorn]

Allied unit placement, western Crete 19 May 1941

 

[Broken_Erika]

I like the sea monsters...

 

[techumseh]

I like the sea monsters...

They be whales!

 

[CurtSibling]

I know it is early days, but I am not sure if the choice of city GFX really work too well.

 

[Tanelorn]

@CurtSibling Yes , though they are architecturally correct for the time, these are placeholders. For example, Rethymno was a medieval walled city until after WWII, and this goes for most of the islands, where the "Chora" is usually a walled settlement, that retained its medieval walls to protect against pirate raids (that went on up to the early 19th c.). The underlying urban terrain needs change too.

-edit-oops, I see what you mean. I need civtweak for that. I could run widowsXP mode on virtualPC under windows7 with no problems but now windowsXP mode only runs with HyperV under windows 10 AND most importantly needs a valid windows XP activation licence now(wait, what?). Which is technically feasible, but realistically & legaly impossible. Thankfully I have an old XP machine at work, so I will fix it come monday.
https://www.download3k.com/articles...achine-to-Windows-10-or-8-using-Hyper-V-00770
TheNamelessOne is incorporating CivCity and Civtweak features in his Civitas tool, btw.
-edit- Found a temporary workaround.

 

[Tanelorn]

The plot thickens...