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- 2023-10-26 19:53, Thursday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Already done... On your map, modified... Since, I have been living here, I came to realize what a dreadful experience a naval invasion of Malta would have been. Only 3-4 usable beaches all with bottleneck canyons and the terrain would be terrible for paratroopers... Except she's not yet ready for my...
- 2023-10-25 04:01, Wednesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Yesterday I showed her the standalone SSI scenario of Malta. She immediately see spotted errors in geography and then misspelling of Valletta as Vallena... I do agree, that map is messed up
- 2023-10-23 07:20, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Yes. I started to get her used with Age of Empires 1&2 and at some point I told her about PG2...
She is still struggling to learn, as she constantly buys planes only and sends artillery to the front lines...
She is still struggling to learn, as she constantly buys planes only and sends artillery to the front lines...
- 2023-10-21 21:02, Saturday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Another post. Unfortunately, my gaming days are on hold for now. My laptop died and I was unable to buy a new one, because in Malta they are insanely expensive... However... I did manage to pass unto another the enjoyment of playing Panzer General 2... She's 9 and she managed to win her first scenar...
- 2023-06-06 16:09, Tuesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Back again... Still living in Malta, becoming more of a Brit each day... I would like to get back to Panzer General one of these days, but for the past months I got more and more into playing Order of Battle World War II. Not to mention some Close Combat games... My e-file is still saved as well as ...
- 2022-05-20 09:21, Friday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
:howdy REDrake. In Germany we say: other countries, other customs. Therefore my question - is your professional qualification as a lawyer fully recognized in Malta? In any case, I wish you good luck and success. Actually it isn't. That was never on the table when I considered moving out. But I am w...
- 2022-05-18 06:49, Wednesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
So, back again.
Now however, with a change of scenery due to my own personal Operation Herkules...
Relocated to Malta a week ago. Romania was just not suitable anymore for a legal professional...
Now however, with a change of scenery due to my own personal Operation Herkules...
Relocated to Malta a week ago. Romania was just not suitable anymore for a legal professional...
- 2021-12-20 11:39, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
My kid already knows what other Cobi sets wants... She wants especially the Graf Zeppelin carrier. But she also wants the German 1940 Narvik soldiers (which I already bought), the Churchill tank, the T34/85, Bf-110D, Pz-IVG and VW Schwimwagen (I hope I spelled it right). I definitely cannot afford t...
- 2021-12-17 21:01, Friday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
I'll make you a purchase suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTWJi1anUo The box includes a red "dragon" and a tank, I'll gladly take the DVD's myself ;) . Awesome. Of course that would be a Santa gift to remember, as I am also a fan of Sabaton... Cobi kind of tricked me. Like I said I orde...
- 2021-12-15 08:10, Wednesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
She is not angry, especially since the other day kid wrote to Santa that she wants a red dragon toy... Suddenly, a plane and a tank, sound so much better...
- 2021-12-13 15:05, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Well, she is addicted to Lego since she was 2. She has a lot of lego sets. But I had my eyes on these Cobi sets for about a year or so. Yes, I also saw those huge ships, but they are quite expensive. around 150 Euros for Graf Zeppelin. The cheapest is the VIIB U-boat, at 35 Euros. For now, I want th...
- 2021-12-13 14:29, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Yes, I will make it. Nowadays, I am trying to lecture my 7 years old daughter in the pleasures of history and wargaming... For now, no computer games (although, she likes it when I used to play Age of Empires in front of her, past summer), but I aim for Santa to bring her 3 COBI (LEGO from Germany) ...
- 2021-11-29 15:34, Monday
- Forum: Equipment Files
- Topic: ATOMIC Efile [see 1st post]
- Replies: 428
- Views: 466075
Re: ATOMIC Efile [check 1st post]
US has 37 transports and i have only 14 + one mule + one empty transport weights available... so i have to stuff different transports into the same weights.... I for one placed transports based on the likelihood of being in use by the same units. Just as an example, I have a weight for trucks, anot...
- 2021-11-29 10:44, Monday
- Forum: Equipment Files
- Topic: ATOMIC Efile [see 1st post]
- Replies: 428
- Views: 466075
Re: ATOMIC Efile [check 1st post]
I played a little on your Allied Invasion of Italy campaign... I do hope that in the future you will work on your ships. Having all light cruisers, heavy cruisers and battleships dropped into a capitol ship category is limiting. Especially since it allows players to upgrade light cruisers to battles...
- 2021-11-29 09:34, Monday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Fictional Campaigns Thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4200
Re: Fictional Campaigns Thread
Just came across Operation Unthinkable , a hypothetical attack of the western allies on Soviet troops in Germany on 1st July 1945. There would also be Polish and even German forces fighting with the western allies. That would be a good starting point for a campaign. The attack would have been taken...
- 2021-11-28 15:27, Sunday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Back Sort Of...
- Replies: 49
- Views: 32138
Re: Back Sort Of...
Hello people, Sorry for me very lengthy absence. Things went to toilet with my life this past summer. Problems with the job, financial issues, moved our to a rented apartment where my PC is still in a box and came very close to divorce. 2 months ago, I was forced into putting on hold any ideas of wo...
- 2021-05-28 15:25, Friday
- Forum: Equipment Files
- Topic: REDrake's REDPac Efile thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8191
Re: REDrake's REDPac Efile thread
Had a bit of a setback lately. One of my HDDs went down. I was able to save about 80% of the data from it, but some files got corrupted. That unfortunately include some of the text files for my campaigns...
- 2021-04-29 06:08, Thursday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: Blitzkrieg World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1313
Re: Dev Playtest: Blitzkrieg World Campaign with RedPac e-file
Had to fix some problems with the campaign. I am on scenario 5 now. And this is my core: OpenGen 0.93.4.0 * 25 Dec 2020 * AI version: 2.00 (2014) Efile folder: D:\Dragos\Lost Partition -1\Lost Files\Diverse\New folder\efile_redpac\ * Efile version: Campaign: BLITZKRIEG WORLD CAMPAIGN (1937-1944), * ...
- 2021-04-29 06:07, Thursday
- Forum: Polskie Forum
- Topic: Gustlik is dead
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7021
Re: Gustlik is dead
I only read this today...
Very sad on the news...
Very sad on the news...
- 2021-04-20 18:22, Tuesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: AK campaign
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10382
Re: AK campaign
I will. However, I will have to make some background research on it. I know nothing about that battle...
- 2021-04-20 09:40, Tuesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: Blitzkrieg World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1313
Dev Playtest: Blitzkrieg World Campaign with RedPac e-file
Yes, it is finished. I am going to try it on a full run. This migh take some time... To the Shores... - BV I realize now that I might have made the first scenario too difficult. I might need to remove 2 Republican units, otherwise players might run in problems. Leipzig cruiser has a random leader. W...
- 2021-04-20 05:54, Tuesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: [Let's Play] Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3683
Re: [Let's Play] Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
Remakes are all very well done . Havent tried the bloody first ( using 3d engine ), but huge fan of this series . highly recommend ww1 mod for cc3 and schelt mod for cc5. I tried bloody first. Definitely not on par with the previous ones. For one, it has only a campaign with americans, not with ger...
- 2021-04-13 19:23, Tuesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: interesting / useful links
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9987
Re: interesting / useful links
https://map.project44.ca/3d Unfortunately this site is available in german language only, but it is one of the best websites about a single cavalry regiment and its units i have found so far. https://www.kavallerie-regiment18.de/menue.html I hope you do know that you can access the option to transl...
- 2021-04-13 19:19, Tuesday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: [Let's Play] Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3683
Re: [Let's Play] Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
Yes I know about it. I registered there a long time ago.
And no, I am not just discovering the games. I played CC3 in 2000 and still have it on the original disk. I also used to have CC5 until 2005 when it blew up in my cd-rom.
I also got some of the remakes, but I have yet to try them out
And no, I am not just discovering the games. I played CC3 in 2000 and still have it on the original disk. I also used to have CC5 until 2005 when it blew up in my cd-rom.
I also got some of the remakes, but I have yet to try them out
- 2021-04-13 19:10, Tuesday
- Forum: People’s General Forum
- Topic: No work for peg for next time.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5134
Re: No work for peg for next time.
Best of luck Micha!
I feel what you are saying. Past year I was fired twice, got into a chronic depression and in the end got through on my own.
I feel what you are saying. Past year I was fired twice, got into a chronic depression and in the end got through on my own.
- 2021-03-29 15:40, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: [Let's Play] Order of Battle: World War II
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2130
Re: [Let's Play] Order of Battle: World War II
Narvik At the start of the scenario, I bought a Scharnhorst and an Admiral Hipper cruiser. I also had just enough pp to buy a He-52 bomber. The mission here is to aid the marines landing on Narvik and sink the approaching British Battlecruisers. On top of that I need to sink around 10 other ships (...
- 2021-03-22 21:39, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: [Let's Play] Order of Battle: World War II
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2130
Re: [Let's Play] Order of Battle: World War II
Well I got the game at a gog discount 2 years ago I think. I also don't have all the dlcs. Too expensive. I might "acquire them" illegally for testing purposes to see if they are worth buying. Also I have no idea what PC &PC2 means. PC in SSI language used to mean Panzer Commander... Best tank simul...
- 2021-03-22 19:08, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: [Let's Play] Order of Battle: World War II
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2130
[Let's Play] Order of Battle: World War II
So, I had this game fir quite a while. It has several campaigns, as dlcs. It feels like what Panzer General 3 should have been. It lacks the large and detailed equipment rooster of Panzer General series, but it adds some interesting ideas like supply lines, front lines and certain missions within sc...
- 2021-03-22 18:55, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: What other games do you play ?
- Replies: 121
- Views: 54465
Re: What other games do you play ?
I tried Xenonauts some time ago. It was nice but it just doesn't have the same vibe old X-coms used to have. Otoh, ET: Extraterrestrials is a remake & side sequel of X-Com 1. It has no connection with other remakes but it has the same feeling of X-Com, with some improvement. Back to previous post Oo...
- 2021-03-19 14:14, Friday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: What other games do you play ?
- Replies: 121
- Views: 54465
Re: What other games do you play ?
Order of Battle WW2... This game I have for about a year and never touched it until 2 days ago. And I cannot play anything else... It has been a long time since I encountered a panzer general remake which is this good. I might start a thread about it. Started with Kriegsmarine campaign and I am at s...
- 2021-03-08 19:16, Monday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: CAMPAIGNS: What is in the making - please add/update
- Replies: 39
- Views: 18696
Re: CAMPAIGNS: What is in the making - please add/update
I am lately tempted on making a campaign small in size for Kaiser e-file.
Using Japan. So far I am divided on 3 possible options.
First Sino-Japanese War
Allied Intervention in Siberia
Japan in WW1.
Using Japan. So far I am divided on 3 possible options.
First Sino-Japanese War
Allied Intervention in Siberia
Japan in WW1.
- 2021-03-08 19:04, Monday
- Forum: Open General
- Topic: Wish: Custom list of protos by trigger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3101
Re: Wish: Custom list of protos by trigger
Because I want it to be "not specific", but random from a given list.
- 2021-02-06 10:40, Saturday
- Forum: Equipment Files
- Topic: REDrake's REDPac Efile thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8191
Re: REDrake's REDPac Efile thread
Sadly, French SAS campaign needs a major re-work. When I created it I was constrained by the lack of suitable maps make do. I was also fwr less experienced and frankly it was pre-OpenGeneral. At this point, out of 12 scenarios only 4 are actually fun to play. I even have a scenario with almost no en...
- 2021-02-01 19:06, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: [Let's Play] Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3683
[Let's Play] Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
All right, while I was forced to stay in-doors due to chinese bio invasion, I acquired from GOG a bundle of Close Combat games. Both old ones and remakes. For now no photos. If anyone can suggest a site that allows me to upload photos and then embed them here it would be awesome... While starting wi...
- 2021-01-30 15:32, Saturday
- Forum: Equipment Files
- Topic: REDrake's REDPac Efile thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8191
Re: REDrake's REDPac Efile thread
I can't believe I forgot to post here, for the past 3 months... Anyway, as a joke, we Romanians used to say that the Soviet soldier statue in Bucharest back 35 years ago where so high placed because soviet soldiers had a reputation for smelly feet... On the side, back to my e-file and campaigns. I f...
- 2021-01-30 15:13, Saturday
- Forum: Open General
- Topic: Wish: Custom list of protos by trigger
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3101
Wish: Custom list of protos by trigger
I want to change the idea behind the trigger for protos in some of my campaigns. What I intend is for it to be used as a trigger for getting captured enemy equipment (similar to something you can get in PG3 3D). As an example, a german unit triggers a hex and the player is granted a unit from a rand...
- 2020-12-24 18:11, Thursday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Merry Christmas 2020
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5522
Re: Merry Christmas 2020
Merry Christmas to everyone! I do also wished that covid would give me a truce. Unfortunately, it was not to be. I will spend the Christmas and the New Years Eve along with my wife and daughter, but isolated. I caught the nasty invertebrate past week and passed it on to my wife. :yuck Luckily, is th...
- 2020-12-17 06:59, Thursday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: MAPS: Post information about new maps here please
- Replies: 330
- Views: 306841
- 2020-12-13 11:09, Sunday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
Wow! It seems it were not only me who got so much protos playing this campaign! It seems you even received more often protos than me. But worry not, it will make the middle-to-late part (if remained mostly untouched) a walk-in-the-park :) As I played, I made certain modifications to the campaign an...
- 2020-12-02 14:12, Wednesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
Scottish Redoubt - BV More difficult than I expected. Tedious because of long supply lines means stoppin to resupply often and sending planes to resupply is even more tedious. But some VHs need to be taken by auxes and that is where it gets tricky. Allied fleet defended quite well and I almost lost ...
- 2020-12-01 05:36, Tuesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
Seelowe - BV New improved map. It still needs work. It is way easier than the original scenario. Bigger map also means much more dispersed Brits. And they fight incredibly poor. Lion's Den - BV Long atrition fight. Some very strange behavior from american reinforcements, their infantry would try to ...
- 2020-11-15 10:34, Sunday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
Played some more and had to stop for a while. A string of bugs in several scenarios, led me to rebuild them... Malta - BV Now that was interesting. Italian auxes played hide&seek with british fleet and managed to land. They were slaughtered however, but they did weaken the allied forces. Germans rod...
- 2020-11-03 18:56, Tuesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
I already ran into some issues on Malta map...
Way too many shallow sea hexes... I placed some british ships on those and now they cannot move. I will have to reload the latest BV save after I fix it...
Way too many shallow sea hexes... I placed some british ships on those and now they cannot move. I will have to reload the latest BV save after I fix it...
- 2020-11-03 15:38, Tuesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
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...
- 2020-11-02 07:57, Monday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Sean Connery - 1930 - 2020
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4130
Re: Sean Connery - 1930 - 2020
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...
- 2020-11-01 05:20, Sunday
- Forum: Steel & Lace – The Pub
- Topic: Sean Connery - 1930 - 2020
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4130
Re: Sean Connery - 1930 - 2020
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.
Best James Bond, but by far not his peak performance. I liked him better in Rising Sun, Medicine Man and Finding Forrestall.
- 2020-10-31 11:53, Saturday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
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...
- 2020-10-30 16:23, Friday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
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...
- 2020-10-28 17:22, Wednesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
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...
- 2020-10-28 09:59, Wednesday
- Forum: Designers’ Corner
- Topic: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10108
Re: Dev Playtest: German World Campaign with RedPac e-file
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...