I gave it another shot with renaming the .exe file for each game. It does seem to work for Waterloo but NIR still gives me "error reading file" messages and PTW gives me a message of "duplicate unit" and places a Marshall Ney icon out for every French unit in the scenario. After the error messages ...

There used to be some instructions about how to do this manually - at least for the Napoleonic maps.

[...]

I seem to recall that the instructions were hosted on the site run by Al Amos and Greg Gorsuch, but most of the pages on that site are no longer available.

If anyone knows where this ...

... imagine it's 1998 and ... yeah, here we are: (the hype is real!)

Battleground™ Series version 2.0 ~ The Command Accelerators :D

all hot keys, keyboard shortcuts and accelerators - corrected, verified, listed and ready to go - finally!

it's 2026, baby - you better believe it!! :mrgreen ...

here's one for the napoleonic games (BG engine):

https://web.archive.org/web/20030223204 ... ml#TOPPAGE

https://web.archive.org/web/20041010181 ... ditor.html

and here's a link 'how to...':
https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=149021

first & second bull run 2d map fixes ready for download - enjoy.

... i know, old post—but hey, i'm currently researching the possibilities of these old games and found this dead parrot in a dusty corner of the internet ... the parrot would say:

it could be one of those problems with pbem.yyy file from back in the day ... delete these files regularly and you'll ...

Here is the handy-dandy shell script (I gave it the name 'install') that I used to help ease the otherwise very lengthy, tedious, and error-prone Napoleonic Archive install process for Linux WINE:

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Hope somebody finds this to be useful.


berto, your shell scripts are very useful indeed ...

I was informed recently that my "Invasion of Prussia" mod is still available for those who are still interested. You will find it a few lines down at the old NIR project website. You need "Prelude to Waterloo" to play this campaign. I don't have much time to support this anymore, but it was play ...

East Front II.

East Front was the game that started the series, had some issues, those were fixed in West Front. Instead of updating East Front the original, East Front II was released as a new game. More scenarios, new features added, with one of the most complete manual sets ever seen in a ...

dear Ronnie, thank you so much!

grabbed from here: http://ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=365&p=412606#p412606

attached is a slightly more complete list of shortcut keys for EAW as a printable quick reference on two A4 pages.

please feel free to comment on problems or better descriptions...

cheers!

this is no .zip-archive ...

bump (instead of bookmarking...)

bump

if nothing dramatic happens to steve or matrixgames the game in all it's glory will still be around for the next decades, i'm sure of that.

i feel your thoughts and i just wanted to let you know, i will be around, too.

merry christmas to all of you.

debian 13 here, installs, runs and works not so very well under wine - since there ARE some problems so far...


yep, i already found some weird glitches with a few forms while doing the tutorials... thought i don't care BUT nope, this won't do the trick. i'll need these forms working when i'm ...

... imagine a world without flames, a world without MWiF

watch a mortal, in this case mr. calandale, try to master the monster in his own unique way and behold the joy in NOT having to make space, sort, setup and study the rules while chugging along.

here are a few of his vids - some folks might ...

dear Ronnie, you're truly a treasure!

thank you very much.

... or do the interactive tutorials. (btw)