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Operation Isabella had a flaw, which I had to fix. If you are unlucky to get rains and muddy terrain, the odds of getting a BV in 9 turns is abysmally low. I had to fix it, by removing the option for the weather to change the terrain. I did got a proto at Canarias, but it was a torpedo boat... :whin...

Well his last role was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Which was a disaster, but only proved what a good actor he was. He managed to play a great role in a totally disaster of a movie...

Yes, he was one of my favorite actors.

Best James Bond, but by far not his peak performance. I liked him better in Rising Sun, Medicine Man and Finding Forrestall.

Rostov - BV Rostov is slow to start. The first turns are with bad weather and advance is cautious from 2 sides. Afterwards it picks up, but I had a lot of casualties. I got a FW-190A4 at trigger hex. The Expert Camo 88 ATG was amazing. Placed on a city hex across the bridge it stopped any allied re...

Moscow was incredibly slow. I played it several times during the day due to constant interuptions. It was very expensive on pp. Funniest moment was one of the aux italian tanks was forced by a soviet attack to retreat on the trigger proto hex. Got me a Capitani Romani cruiser... :lol At this point I...

Moscow Advance - BV Istra was a nightmare. So much happened in this battle that it is a wonder I didn't lose any core units. I lost a lot of strength points and I had to rush and trick soviets to capture the last VH for a last turn BV. Trick, as in drawing the soviets KV-2s and T34s with the prospe...

Kiev, as expected was a bloodbath... I lost a schutzen and the PSW 232 recon... :rip Staraya Russa was easy. Op Typhoon was another bloodbath, but I mercilessly sacrificed the auxes. Near Karashev there was a very large tank battle and because soviets had a powerful AD there, planes were useless. St...

Brest was easy. The only notable thing was that I got a Fw-190 as proto at the end. Good, as I was not planning on upgrading any fighter any time soon. Moghilev was... :thud Luckily (for soviets) it didn't rain. At all. The T34 counter-attack bogged down surprinsgly against SS Infanterie and the Mar...

Athens - BV At Athens I sacrificed the auxes mercilessly. In hindsight the Italian fleet would have had better odds if they just rammed the allied ships... :evil I got a 17 K18 arty at trigger proto. It had nothing to do except for firing at one cavalry, as there was no way off that island... No pro...

I know. Swastikas are forbidden, but hammer& sickle is not...

Made a few more fixes from bugs I noticed.

I also changed the flags for Germany to remove the swastika and replaced it with BalkanKreuz. I then changed the flags for British Union of Fascists as well, because they had a swastika too...

Played more scenarios. From home, as it seems my new employer has difficulties because of Covid crisis and because he invested time and money hoping that a certain party will win the local elections and he will get plenty of clients afterwards... Anyway, I am now at Athens... Plenty of nice leaders,...

Oslo - BV Oslo was nothing to note. No leaders, no significant losses. Relaxing. BV in the last turn without any proto. At HQ, after retrofits, I still did not have enough pp to upgrade the Ar-68... :lol I upgraded the 37mm pak to an 88 ATG and bought a second recon. I do need it to recon on large m...

Warsaw BV-3 Once again I tried to play it safely. Unfortunately, Poles had plans of their own. I had a lot of losses. However, for the first time for as long as I can remember, I got 2 Overwatch leaders in a campaign run... :eek I also got an Ferocious Defender leader on the Sturmpioniere. At proto ...

You have flag problems? I see a blank circle on a flag there...

Krakau - BV I played it carefully. I didn't want to expend valuable troops and used a lot of auxes. Soften with arty and planes and did overruns. A Stuka gained an Influence leader. Not bad, especially on 0% runs. I also got a Bf-110D proto. Which is even better as buying planes is unlikely to be a ...

Barcelona BV-3 Barcelona was a bloodbath. Since I had no bridging unit from the start, crossing the river was a bit more difficult. Because I had far less units and cheap equipment it also led to more casualties. I perservered and intentionally entered the proto trigger hex with the marines, to get ...

Unit reputation is its overrunning ability. If you don't upgrade it and wait for a Tiger, it will be quite weak for a few following scenarios...

The update The e-file received some fixes. Certain units got replaced as they were overpowered and not really historical. Attachments had some fancy new names. German World Campaign has reached version 3.0. It got a new look, new scenarios and replacement of older SSI like scenarios. German Superbli...

If you want to maximize that unit reputation, you should upgrade it to a Pz IIIL. Keep it like that until you get to Panther G.

It is not really a Grille. My bad. I don't know what it is supposed to be. Probabaly just a wrong name :dunno What is the difference between grill and Grille? Grill: a grated metal cooking utensil (noun); to cook over direct heat (verb). Grille: a network of metal, wooden, or plastic bars that acts...

randowe wrote: ↑
2020-10-16 18:14, Friday

REDrake wrote: ↑
2020-10-16 18:03, Friday
Cricket...

What unit is this?
Cricket means Grille in german and Grille was the name of an SPARTY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grille_(artillery)

A Grille at Sedan?

Then you are unlucky. You could have gotten a Tiger...

Cricket...

What unit is this?

Pretty much abandoned the campaign, as I got bored on Dunkirk. I really must get rid of these old scenarios and implement a proper modern (and mine) scenarios. As such, I made extensive modifications to the campaign and replaced almost all of the old scenarios. Almost nothing remains of the original...

Agg Man leader is best used on a true monster thank like Maus.

I remember using such a leader on a KV-2 on a CC with USSR (don't remember which one, maybe Black Sea Campaign?)...

OTOH, I started an updated GWC campaign and got a Devastating Fire on a Pz IB...

Total War series - especially Empire Total War I've played tons of hours combine turn-based strategy and resource management with real-time tactical control of battles :yeah even made a video a few years ago :lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsD5UIsOcAQ&t=10s I was never attracted on anything ot...

The version available from GOG is playable including in Win10.

You might get some errors on alt+tab, but no issues on playing it.

Arras was rainy... Way too much rain. Several turns of overcast which meant my planes saw some action. Even so, the battle was very bloody. English tanks managed to reach my positions without any hinderance from Stukas. At the end a BV in the last turn, no proto and almost all pp spent on retrofits....

Antwerp - BV Deployed the 2 Scharnhorsts once the port was taken. No leaders for them however. I got an AWC leader on the newly bought Bf-109T. Not bad. My FJ troops went for the supply hex and airfield in the SW and had a merry time taking it, as french counter-attacked with infantry and tanks. I ...

Oslo - BV Nothing much to note, except that I got a First Strike leader on my Bf-109e. BV with a Pz IIIG proto. At HQ, I made some upgrades to AT and planes. Fall Gelb - BV In the last turn I got an Over Attack leader on the 88 ATG. :monster At trigger hex I got a Bf-109f proto. BV without any prot...

Warsaw - BV I was unlucky with the weather and I suffered some losses. At trigger I got a StugIIIB proto. BV on the last turn without any proto. At HQ. I upgraded the Hs-123 to a Bf-109 Jabo and I bought another Bf-109 fighter. I had a terrible time at Warsaw with only 2 fighters. This also puts me...

Krakau - BV I had loads of fun with Hs-123s killing unguarded arties. The only real issue with those biplanes is the short range (and the low fuel reserves). I got a Devast fire leader on a 10.5 arty. BV-2 with all flags taken. A proto, Pz IVD. At HQ I made retrofits and then upgraded one of the Hs...

Imperialism 2 is one of my favorite games. Along with PG2, it has to be the oldest game installed on my HDDs. I usually avoid starting countries that have more than 7 provinces. It can be overpowering to have 11 or 12 provinces from the start. But I do start with horses and I pick my own capitol to ...

Well, on GWC I am currently playing, Alexandria and El Alamein are merged, which meant I had to replace a scenario. I toyed with the idea of making a battle in Iraq, but no suitable maps, meant I had to use something else.
I created a scenario in your map of Scotland and Scapa Flow.

Barcelona - BV Well, I got plenty of leaders. SGA on a Hs-123, Det Defense on the other Hs-123, Devast Fire on Pz IVC, Aggr Attack on the 37mm AA (I deliberately moved it on a trigger hex to get a mechanized leader) and Fire Discipline on the mountain arty. At proto trigger I did not get the He-111H...

Almadrones was all right. My core is balanced enough to make the soviet tanks irrelevant. Especially with a Stuka in the team. On the trigger hex I got a Bf-110 proto. Not bad, especially since I was planning on buying a fighter at Barcelona. Also got an Influence leader on the Marine Infantry. Kind...

randowe wrote: ↑
2020-09-20 10:27, Sunday
So far i am using only one of the XXL maps. I fear to mix them with the "standart" maps because people may don't want to play that long or even can't display such large maps.

True. I had Csaba abandon my GWC playtest when he reached Rostov scenario...

It is finished. It was actually played as the latest CCC, although on OpenAK.

In my latest version of German World Campaign, I used your Alexandria map to merge 2 scenarios, Alexandria and El Alamein. Is going to be fun to playtest it to ensure balance is correct.

Decided on testing my German World Campaign (now is mine, as little remains of the old Andreas Seidel version) with my latest RedPac e-file. I previously had 2 testers, Duke and Csaba, but both kind of abandoned it and the threads from JP cannot be recovered. It should have no issues that needs fixi...

Now I am down to 3 scenarios left to do. The campaign at this point has 65 scenarios on the main scenarios tree covering Whermacht. In the future the campaign will cover Kriegsmarine and naval invasions and Afrika Korps. 2 paths which only exists on paper. Except for Scapa Flow scenario for Kriegsma...

Obviously, it was not an original name.

The movie The Mouse that Roared is a classic.

But Maus fits better in the overall Panzer General theme.

Well, when it comes to pubs, I was the one who won the competition for naming the pub from JP's Panzers board...

Roaring Maus was my idea...

:howdy I don't know if this is of any relevance nowadays, but when this forum was new, i copied my testrun of your DMK campaign from JP's to this forum because i somehow liked it will the pictures and stuff: http://forum.open-general.com/viewtopic.php?p=1265#p1265 I know. I saw. Thanks. At least on...

Thanks guys.

Obviously no work has been done this past almost 1 year on my e-file. I still have the files and the campaigns I worked on, but I will need some time to look over them and see where can I start over. Old JP's Panzers boards are down for good, so there is no chance to recover my old thread. I had a m...

Wonderdoctor wrote: ↑
2020-09-02 10:34, Wednesday
Good to hear from you!

I also see that I was made moderator of Equipment Files sub-forum, in absentia...
Congratulations

I also had some
I hope that means you are ok now.

Thanks. I am still taking medication for depression and such, but things are moving towards better...

Hey Guys, I am back, sort of... Not a lot of time for playing or working on e-files these days... :dunno Work has been tedious, changing job places even worse, corona lockdown affected my business life, I also had some neurological problems due to some issues with job and so on... I also see that I ...

I remember that one. As he is Romanian too he wanted help to make a Romanian version at the same time. Nothing seems to have come from that...

One note on radar. It would be best if radar would spot (undefined like in PeG), but not all units. Just planes and ships (without subs).
Maybe an ability that can be used for spottable by radar or not.

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