Curtis Lemay wrote: Mon Mar 23, 2026 12:07 am
Was that board game keeping track of individual vehicles, guns and squads?

Exactly - that's why TOAW crushes boardgames. Immeasurably better in every category.

I found the measure of how TOAW crushed board games is that one of the great monster games of the 1970s, Drang Nach Osten/Unentschieden, took up a ping-pong table and it is replicated in TOAW in more of a medium sized scenario.

Same scale, solitaire play, better map, a better simulation, better ...

Is PPA and such not captured in the Event Engine?

18.4
Be sure to set Theater Recon, theater Guerrilla,
Rail Transport, Sea Transport, and Air Transport
levels for each Force. Set this up as a simple timer
trigger for Turn 1. Remember to modify the
values with later Events if they should be ...

It shows on this 1941 RKKA map as well, but I've read that the Germans discovered in 1941 what the Soviets already knew; Don't fully trust the Soviet maps. That's what started this tangent of the thread - me trying not to rely to much on the 1941 maps and why I was using the German 1943 maps.

There ...

Yes - I see that. So, its a fault in my logic. I assumed the German 1941 maps were more expectation than reality so I avoided looking at them. With the 1943 versions, I assumed "well, now they know what's there and not there" which does not take into account the Germans building a few vital roads ...

Lobster - on most maps there is shown an actual highway - improved road - from Minsk to Smolensk and on to Moscow - on the north bank of the Dnepr. You have a regular road from Minsk, through Orsha, and to Smolensk on the south side.

Was that not there in 1941?

I dont know why I didn't use them sooner - they look great.

The challenge with TOAW maps versus other games is that the TOAW terrain spills over into other hexes - on purpose.

The biggest challenge is rivers - they do not follow hexsides. So, you'd have to erase the rivers. Then it becomes a whole thing - which is where I'm at.

One size serif gold with a black outline is not attractive. My overarching question is; why do we have to make an aesthetically better map image to sit over the game's map?
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I was trying to avoid three steps because I'm not good with software like GIMP or Photoshop;
1st - get ...

So, am I missing something;

1st - get a map image uploaded to use as a guide,
2nd - make a map on top of the uploaded image that the programming reads and delete that image,
3rd - make a new image that sits on top of the actual map that is attractive - readable place names, river names, rail ...

THANK YOU. I was at 125% scale and went to 100% and boom - there they were.
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I cannot figure out how to get the bottom five to show. I can see them in the files, but not here in the editor; Also, what is the purpose of the "Select All" and the number that can be put it?

Am I missing something? I cannot find lake terrain...


Lake, I believe there's none, it's just "Water". Makes sense, no reason to use a different hex for what's essentially water.



But there is no "Water" terrain. There is; Airfields, City, Invalid, Marsh, Mudflats, Open Steppe, Farmland ...

You clearly underestimate the food and wine. Italy produces over 2,500 traditional, distinct varieties of cheese, offering the largest variety of any nation in the world.

I send the tanks after the spaghetti. Mi scusi.

Am I missing something? I cannot find lake terrain, rail lines, and what is "WoodsContent"?

Also - how do you name cities, towns and rivers?

Ever finish? I think those are awesome graphics and would use those instead.

Well, AI said that if Lobster had actually included 37mm mortars in Campaign Barbarossa, it would be 338 of the 1,500 pieces. I was surprised that it referred to him by his code name and not his real name, nor the name Bob probably calls him under his breath. Then we went out for a beer.

AI can do ...

Yes - https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?p=5261043#p5261043 .

It gets down to amazing details to consider - like where stragglers from the Barbarossa border battles went, and therefore things like the 22nd Army at the Dvina/Dnepr should have more proficiency than the 20th Army because ...

I've gathered enough information to get into detailed battles in Army Group Center versus the Western Front in Summer 1941. I'm working on both games, TOAW and WEGO, concurrently.

That TOAW being hard work getting the OOBs entered is frustrating, and, that Governato and I have talked about the ...

Thank you - it was a me issue.

I followed your steps and got it.