WW2-Global

[warmwaffles]

Yo Roco....I have been playing this game for about a month or so now...problem is I can only get like 3 turns in a day just cuz of the small time frame I am playing in and my system 512MB, 2.4Ghz processor, ATI Raydeon Pro 9225 PCI version, Linksys Wireless Card With speed booster...all sorts of do hickies...

So when is the probable new version going to be releases? next month or august?

 

[oljb007]

Number of Civs will be heavily reduced in WW2-Global 1941 which
hopefully should increase game-speed.

Thus Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Denmark,Norway,Belgium
and Netherlands are occupied by Germany when the scenario starts.
Colonys that belong to Netherlands and Belgium will be British control.

The Civs in Latin America will be reduced to:

Brazil, Argentina-Chile and Latin America (including Mexico).

Portugal will be a part of Spain-Portugal.

Communist-China will be a part of China.

No decision yet if "Vichy-France" should be added.
The European part of it was occupied by Germany November 11 1942.

If I include "Vichy-France" it will only have garrison-units.
The reason is that in reality the Vichy-forces seldom fought for
any long time when confronted with Western Allied units.

Rocoteh

Sounds great! I am looking forward to playing it.

couple thoughts, would if included Vichy France be allied with Germany? you mentioned that they didn't fight western allied forces for any long time but I am just clarifying. Or would there be two frances?

 

[Rocoteh]

Yo Roco....I have been playing this game for about a month or so now...problem is I can only get like 3 turns in a day just cuz of the small time frame I am playing in and my system 512MB, 2.4Ghz processor, ATI Raydeon Pro 9225 PCI version, Linksys Wireless Card With speed booster...all sorts of do hickies...

So when is the probable new version going to be releases? next month or august?

Drivebymaster,

I will be away more than 50% of the days the next two months
and thus its hard to set a target date.
I am also working with WW3-Global.

Rocoteh

 

[warmwaffles]

Ahhhh I C sorry man that your gone...but hey no problem I love it right now so I guess this version will get me by

 

[Rocoteh]

Sounds great! I am looking forward to playing it.

couple thoughts, would if included Vichy France be allied with Germany? you mentioned that they didn't fight western allied forces for any long time but I am just clarifying. Or would there be two frances?

oljb007,

I am glad to hear that.

Vichy-France would be a neutral "second" France.
Motivation was not high in Vichy-forces and thus they will
only be represented with garrison-units.

Rocoteh

 

[Adler17]

Hmm. Or you should simply add Vichy France to Germany... But I have no real opinion what´s better...

Adler

 

[Rocoteh]

Hmm. Or you should simply add Vichy France to Germany... But I have no real opinion what´s better...

Adler

Adler,

Its possible I will leave Vichy-France out to hold down the number of Civs.

Also: French Indochina will start under Japanese control as Japan
gained bases there both 1940 and 1941. Thailand will also be Japanese
control. Once again the reason is to hold down the number of Civs.
The 1941 version should be fast compared to the regular version.

Rocoteh

 

[civ3Monkey]

I cant make the game start

Each time I start the scenario it hangs/crash
This has not happend before to me.
Anyone knows how I might solve it?

 

[Bob1475]

This is a HUGE scenario and takes a long time to load even on big machines. One way to reduce this is to use one of the saved games. Start it and go read a book - check after 25 minutes and every 10 minutes thereafter.

 

[dreamcrusader]

I just wanted to comment that I d/l this like 3 months ago and Im still playing it. Wonderful job!

 

[Hyperborean]

I have followed this thread almost from the beginning, it has been a very interesting read, and I have been looking forward to play ww2-global for a long time. The problem has been the size of the scenario, 135 meg is a lot to download with my poor connection, so I had to ask a friend to download it for me.
I installed it on my computer a couple of weeks ago. I had really been looking forward to this. Forwarned that it would take a while to load I made myself busy for about half an hour, but when I came back I was looking at my desktop. Apparently the game had crashed, so I tried it again, and the result was the same. After a couple of more tries (I'm stubborn) I had to give up. But there was no reason to worry, I thought, since I could try one of the saved games instead. Well, I tried it, and it didn't work either. I recieved the following message:

ERROR READING FILE

Missing entry in text\Pediaicons.txt:ANIMNAME_PRTO_German_Infantry.

That was very disappointing, to say the least.

My computer is fairly new, I've only had it for about 10 months. It has a 2 Ghz processor and 512 meg RAM. Is my computer too old to play this scenario?

 

[Rocoteh]

I have followed this thread almost from the beginning, it has been a very interesting read, and I have been looking forward to play ww2-global for a long time. The problem has been the size of the scenario, 135 meg is a lot to download with my poor connection, so I had to ask a friend to download it for me.
I installed it on my computer a couple of weeks ago. I had really been looking forward to this. Forwarned that it would take a while to load I made myself busy for about half an hour, but when I came back I was looking at my desktop. Apparently the game had crashed, so I tried it again, and the result was the same. After a couple of more tries (I'm stubborn) I had to give up. But there was no reason to worry, I thought, since I could try one of the saved games instead. Well, I tried it, and it didn't work either. I recieved the following message:

ERROR READING FILE

Missing entry in text\Pediaicons.txt:ANIMNAME_PRTO_German_Infantry.

That was very disappointing, to say the least.

My computer is fairly new, I've only had it for about 10 months. It has a 2 Ghz processor and 512 meg RAM. Is my computer too old to play this scenario?

Hyperborean,

You have probably installed the downloaded files in the scenario-folder
of Civ 3 instead of the scenario-folder of Conquests.
This is a common mistake and causes this type of crash.

With the computer-cap. you have I estimate load-time to 45 minutes.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

I just wanted to comment that I d/l this like 3 months ago and Im still playing it. Wonderful job!

dreamcrusader,

Thank you.

I am very glad to hear that.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

I am going off-line now and will be away for 10 days without
Internet-connection.

I hope the discussion on the scenario and its future will continue.

Rocoteh

 

[eaglefox]

rocoteh
its great to hear that work on the 1941 version is underway. it's always been my belief that the 1939 version had too many insignificant civs that made the game very slow. also we couldn't exactly show how weak russia really was at the start of operation barbarossa. russia always becomes stronger than germany by june 22, 1941 in the current version. although playing russia is a lot of fun, its not historical. 1941 version ought to correct that. we should also think of including something that will boost russian production by about 300-400% by mid 1943. perhaps a building only available to russia that can be built after a certain tech is researched. and maybe you should increase the defences in moscow, leningrad and stalingrad so it becomes almost impossible to take those cities. maybe more of those bunkers at elite level. this way, we can simulate (partially) the effects of the russian winter on the germans. without being able to take these cities, the german invasion will be somewhat stuck and will give the russians more breathing space. the 1941 version will also bring in the attack on pearl habor which was one of the most important event of the war. maybe you should also think of making some changes to the topography in the middle east and afghanistan, so that units produced by britain in india and south east asia will only be used against the japs and not against the germans. perhaps mountains without roads so no armor passes through. and maybe you could give some of the french african colonies to the americans so that they would have more of a role to play in the western theatre. by the way, turkey can still be attacked by russia as they did in my game so you should do something about that. turkey is the buffer between germany and british middle east. turkey is the country that keeps german troops away from middle east and british troops from entering the greek part of nazi germany from the middle east or india. and it also keeps the russian fleet at sevastopol. so we absolutely need that nation to survive the war. keep up the great work.

 

[Hyperborean]

Hyperborean,

You have probably installed the downloaded files in the scenario-folder
of Civ 3 instead of the scenario-folder of Conquests.
This is a common mistake and causes this type of crash.

With the computer-cap. you have I estimate load-time to 45 minutes.

Rocoteh

Rocoteh, thank you for the advice. I checked where I had put the files, and they were in the Conquest-folder, but outside of the scenario-folder, so there's no wonder why I couldn't play it. I put the files where they should belong, and now it works fine. And you were right about the loading time, I checked the clock, and it took approximately 43 minutes to load!

All I can say is that it is a fantastic scenario you have created! I can't remember the last time I have felt this involved in a strategy game. I succumbed completely to the "just-one-more-turn" syndrome. Playing as Germany I just had to conquer Poland, and then Paris, and France, and Scandinavia, and Spain, and... then I realised it was morning, and I had been playing for like 12 hours uninterrupted. It is a clear sign that a game is addictive when you forget to eat and sleep.

Anyway, I like this scenario a lot! I have had a lot of fun unleashing the Wehrmacht on an unsuspecting world. When I'm done with Germany I have to try some other civ. There is so much to do, and so little time. My only problem is that I'm afraid that if I load this scenario again I'll forget that I have work to do and end up conquering the world all night long.

My only criticism is that the balance between some of the minor nations is wrong. When I (as Germany) declared war on Scandinavia it was Finland that made the most progress. It didn't take them long to seize Hammerfest, Luleå, Sundsvall and Trondheim. I had to rush my invasion-plans (operation Weserübung) to get any cities at all from Scandinavia. It appears the Finnish infantry is much better than the Scandinavian. I think this is a bit unrealistic.

Also, I think there was a Norwegian infantry division in Denmark at the start of the game. What were the Norwegians up to?

 

[Alex Bunn]

I am stuck
Thank you in advance for your time.
I have downloaded the correct files and unzipped them into the correct locations.
It loads with the music properly however eventually closes to the main screen. I have 1 G of Ram and amd 3.4
The saves don't seem to work!
I have read this problem occurring before, please can you tell me how this was solved
many thanks
Alex

 

[oljb007]

thoughts for 1941:

beefed up air defense for Russians, maybe the T-34 gets some air defense.

shore up Turkey against Russia a little more, (they attacked in my special version too)

Figure out how to get US air force involved in European theatre. (any involvement in Europe for that fact)

hinder production in captured cities, its still pretty easy to turn a captured city into a production house quickly. more resisters?

I second eagle fox's idea of boslstering Russia's production, golden age? T-34 wonder with discovery of tech that spits out like 3 tanks a turn or something insane. because by 1934 they will ser iously be on their heals with most major production cities lost.

I also like his idea of bolstering leninggrad, moscow and maybe one other.

As for ural mountains, the only road through them doesn't have a fortification on it, so germany can walk right through. I noticed this in special version. The urals should act as a block against the germans, no passably roads with out fortifications and serious AA defense! in my humble opinion!

just a few thoughts

edit (after thought)

--eaglefox's idea about US bases in Africa isn't a bad idea either. US transports would be on the verge of range of german U-boat operations also. So that would make it a little safer for them and not just easy prey.

 

[Hyperborean]

I am stuck
Thank you in advance for your time.
I have downloaded the correct files and unzipped them into the correct locations.
It loads with the music properly however eventually closes to the main screen. I have 1 G of Ram and amd 3.4
The saves don't seem to work!
I have read this problem occurring before, please can you tell me how this was solved
many thanks
Alex

Alex

It sounds as if you have made the same mistake as me. The WW2-global folder must also be put in the scenario folder, and not just the biq-file. I blame it on inexperience since this is the first scenario I have downloaded.

 

[eaglefox]

Germany vs AI - SID Level
Week 44, 1941

Operation Typhoon ends!!!
With the massive Russian defeat at Moscow, the Grand German offensive codenamed Typhoon has come to a successful close. Russian forces are in disarray everywhere and it is obvious that with the Kremlin now in German hands, the Russian political leadership is dwindling. Russian force levels are at an all time low, with only 57 T-34, 1 Kv-1, 28 Mig-3, 27 Yak-1, 10 Pe-8, and a little above a 100 Russian infantry capable of fighting. German forces on the other hand boast a strength of 92 Panzers, and over 90 aircrafts, 50 infantry, and about 50 German 88s. With Russian morale also at an all-time low, German generals are trying to persuade Hitler to launch another massive attack to liberate Stalingrad and smash the Russian front there. Hitler is however insisting on Leningrad, and the debate is getting heated at the Reigstag. However, it seems that Stalingrad will be chosen over Leningrad because of Stalingrad's proximity to the German cities. Moreover, Stalingrad holds the Iron Works that Russia so desperately needs to keep up with the German production.

The attack on Moscow caused the Germans to lose 12 elite Panzers, and 2 aircrafts. However they hit back on the Russian forces that had infiltrated the German border, and destroyed 28 T-34s, many aircrafts and 7 flaks. The defenses around Moscow are now being prepared in anticipation of a Russian counterattack which is sure to come. Once the attack has been dealt with, The Germans will get some refit time (perhaps two weeks) and then Battle of Stalingrad will commence.
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