WW2-Europe XXL

[aeldrik]

@vlad: you are playing at Emperor level... it should be hard... but once you have all of Western Europe and Scandinavia under your control it should make it easier...
still, I hope you'll lose the first game ..... no, not to be mean, but that would show I succeeded in making it a little bit more challenging.... Russia shouldn't be a walk in the park...
Are you using the bombers?? they are a lot stronger than in the normal game, and usually reduce Infantry and tanks to 1HP per run ...


@JosefStalinator: do you have conquest Installed? it doesn't work without conquest.... if yes, then just read the readme file about where to copy the files to...

 

[aeldrik]

Just wanted to celebrate here... I made 500 posts today.... now 1000.....



:soldier: :tank: :soldier:

:rocket:

 

[CellKu]

Congratulations!!
I need a lot more posts to reach 500! But I am following you. Btw, when do you intend to issue the next version (perhaps as "celebration version" )?

CellKu

 

[aeldrik]

lol---- nice one.... sorry, no celebration version today,....
I am waiting for the unit from CCJ39 to be ready... as soon as it working fine.... you'll get version 1.6....
But I could need someone to help me test it first, if you'd like CellKu....?

 

[Dedin]

@ aeldrik:

Do you know why the french and poland dont use their
armies ? Is this because of the stupid KI or do they have
a limit on that ? The french guys are just having one unit
per army. Would be a bit more challenging if they could put some more units in there

 

[aeldrik]

stupid KI... to make sure they'd put more units in there I would have to give them more units, which would in turn......... I think you can get it.... The "Preload" option for Armies and Ships is a big missing MUST.....

 

[vlad1917]

I am usually play scenarios on SID level.
No problem here - so far so good. You know Suvorov said once that we win not by size but by skills. Here is 27 turn and very easy to play... 20 armies (3 of them empty) no tanks for it because I have no oil. Sweden-Norwegian conquered (each have remaining few towns but there is no active campaign here). Entire Europe, Turkish and England except axis, iIrland and those Rumania. I advance in port said. and in Russia I have taken Minsk and Tbilisi and 2 near by towns. Thinking to take Leningrad and Egypt next turn and if there will be remaining armies probably will take oil in Iraq. So far no real defense from AI. Becuase AI never realize how important artillery in difending.

I have remaining around 10 bombers and they all busy sinking American naval. I could not et build new once.

PS. I just do not know why rubber is important for building tanks...
Also there is a lot fixes should be done for civilopedia.

 

[aeldrik]

Damnnnn.... well, I reinforced the southern British defences for the next version.... let's see if you manage to invade the US...

Rubber is not necessary for Panzer/tanks, only for HEavy and light tanks (this is so these units are not available to every one...)

The civilopedia is the thing that takes most time to make, I ussualy go at it one small step at a time, especially since it is not that important for gameplay... but I haven't forgotten about it...

 

[vlad1917]

By the way tiger 2 was made with uranium. It why it was so hard to get him.

 

[aeldrik]

hmm, any Homepages about that?

 

[CellKu]

Originally posted by aeldrik
lol---- nice one.... sorry, no celebration version today,....
I am waiting for the unit from CCJ39 to be ready... as soon as it working fine.... you'll get version 1.6....
But I could need someone to help me test it first, if you'd like CellKu....?

I would most certainly like to help you! Just let me know what I should do - the only problem is that I have a terribly slow PC (800 MHz): Loading the scenario takes about 2 hours for me.

CellKu

 

[vlad1917]

1) I read about uranium in the tiger armor on russian sites where I find how we got intact tiger from germans in 1942 near by Leningrad where it sunk in the mud. I could not find it right now of cause.
2) No oil in Baku?
3) By the way I have suggest it to designers but there was no results so far. If u have 2 main powers like here u should split scenario on 2. one for axis and other for alias.

 

[CCJ39]

hm, don't know the details about the tanks and other stuffs, but I was creating a small link-stuff-archiv for creating the "GlobalDomination - The Darkest Hour"-Mod, which is a WW2-modpack in progress, here are some (maybe) usefull links (not only for units)


http://www.achtungpanzer.com/profiles.htm
http://www.battletanks.com/usa.htm
http://worldatwar.net/timeline/other/diplomacy39-45.html
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html

 

[atomic bore]

Also, you might want to add some troops on the French-Italian Border for the French. Im not usre if it is historically correct though

 

[CellKu]

aeldrik, I found a map of world uranium resources. I am not sure though, if it helps. Here is the link:

http://www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/img/uresw.gif

And here is a "library" of links for geological maps. Perhaps it can be useful as well.

http://www.maps.ethz.ch/map_catalogue-thematic1.html

I will continue my search tomorrow.

CellKu

 

[aeldrik]

@atomic: already did.... not very historical, no, but I keeps the Italalian away for a while----
@CellKu: the links are great... thx a lot-.-(only the oil maps are not very readable, if you find a good one on that, it would be great....)
@CCJ39: thx, I found what I was looking for in one of the links... great...
@vlad: added the oil in Baku, thx, how could I forget it-----
(did you finally get oil from Scandinavia?)... I will reform the advanced (heavy and Light Tanks), they will now need Oil, Iron and Aluminium to build, the Tiger will need Uranium instead of Iron--

Anyone know how to describe in 1-2 words the advantages of the T-34 and Sherman? (if not I'll look it up, just in case someone has it in his memory)

PS:
would be great if some of you went to vote on this poll:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1628383#post1628383

 

[DrNick]

aeldrik

First of all, love the scenario. I've always been a big WWII strategy buff and its fun to have a go at it in CIV.

I first downloaded version 1.03 of the scenario a few weeks ago and played as Thrid Reich. Game played fine till the week 1, 1940 turn. Then the game froze and refused to proceed. Too bad, but things like this happen.

A few days ago I downloaded v 1.05. I like the new version very much, and it runs alot smoother (I don't have like every other city with a Cholera epidemic ). I was again playing as Third Reich and bang, stuck after week 1 1940 again. Interestingly enough it seems to be right after the Greek units take their turn and if I remember correctly that is where it froze the first time too.

I am a casual player and I might be missing something obvious, but just thought I'd drop this in.

BTW my system is a 2.26 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 memory running Windows XP if that makes a difference.

Cheers and keep up the good work

 

[aeldrik]

@Dr Nick, thx for the positive feedback, please upload the sav file and I'll have a look at it. Version 1.03 did crash freeze on my PC too, but v 1.05 actually didn't yet freeze.... I was still hoping----

 

[DrNick]

aeldrik

Here is the save game. Hopefully there is something obvious I missed. I would really like to get a crack at invading England in this game. I keep conquering Poland/Baltic/Yugoslavia/Denmark/Low countries/France and some combination of Norway/Greece/Spain, but never get to 'Sea Lion'

Thanks

 

[Dedin]

I guess my game is about to freeze again too then ;(
Got to play 5 more turns, will report you when I passed the crash
date, but it´s likely that the bug is still existing in the new version.