<t>Thanks, Wild Bill, I'm doing allright so far. I only played 5 turns yesterday - the real world kept interrupting! <img src="wink.gif" border="0"> <br/>
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Anyway, so far, things work fine. Just to be sure I removed SPWaw and installed first DF with 5.3, then the upgrade to 6.1 and then the 7.0 ...

Thanks, I will try to upgrade as soon as possible then!

<t>I have still not completed the first scenario in Desert Fox and I am already rather cross...<br/>
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So far, the program has dumped me back to the desktop at least four times! And, as you cannot save the game and it only makes a save when you exit everything is lost! I get the drift that you ...

This was more or less my standard trick in the old Steel Panthers campaigns.
Now though, I guess it would depend on which campign you are playing. I tried to start a long war campaign as German from Jan 39 and got 3800 points to spend!! I backed out as something must be wrong there...

<t>Now, just to stress how completely wrong you were, let me take this one more time:<br/>
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I don't really like the desert settings. Never did, and in those long war campaigns in SP1 I was always glad to get out of the desert.<br/>
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And still, I go off and buy a megacampaign built arond ...

<t>No, no, Wild Bill, you misunderstand me completely!<br/>
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When I say that I fear too little variety in the desert I don´t mean the missions but the terrain. It is just a matter of preference, I prefer the european mix of field, gullies, hills, houses and forests to the more bleak desert. <br ...

<r>I wrote some time ago that I would forego the Desert fox and head for the Lost Victories mega campaign. The main reason for this was that I feared that the desert battles would offer too little variation, I mean a desert is a desert, isn't it?<br/>
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Then I started thinking about how much I ...

<r>Bradock, it seems you have the same problem as I had. Look in the thread named "I know I am a novice, but still..."<br/>
Appearently there is a bug in those first scenarios. I have received scenarios from mosh, as he offered me, but have not yet had the time to try them out. <br/>
The other ...

<t>Thanks Voriax and Skukko. For the immediate time being, I'll try to adjust the settings - for this scenario at least.<br/>
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Skukko, I'll mail you so I can have a "proper" scenario. I understand thing like this may happen when you tweak the versions - that's one reason this forum is so great ...

<t>After playing a numer of scenarios and doing rather well, I thought it was time for a campaing. I tried the "long, long road to victory", bought a mix of armor, infantry with some engineers a few mortars and AA guns and started to advance against the french positions.<br/>
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However, I am cut ...

<t>As I haven't bought a mega campaign yet (only a matter of time...) I may not know what I am writing about, but what the...<br/>
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I would like to see variation in the types of battles. IMHO, there is not a lot of variation in the Pacific theatre - you have to get those japs out of their caves ...

<t>I came into wargaming with the original Squad Leader and moved up to GI:Anvil of victory, but never really mastered all the rules past the "Iron Cross" stage. However, opponents were hard to find and thus I never invested in ASL.<br/>
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When Steel Panthers came I bought it, but not SP2 or 3 ...

<t>I played one of the early scenarios, "Mice vs Marshall", and did well. I managed to completely rout the russians and inflicted casualities of all 54 AFV:s and some 430 men while only losing 11 AFV:s and 87 men. Of course I held all the victory hexes at the end. If there ever was a decisive ...

<t>Thanks, bigtroutz! I have now done what I obviuosly should have done from the start: Loaded the editor and experimented a little. Still, I thought it might be in the manual....<br/>
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It turns out to be exactly as you tried to illustrate: Only the hex just in front of the cave mouth is ...

Yep, count me in! This game will fill my gaming needs for a long, long time....

<t>Resisti wrote:<br/>
"I suspect you misunderstood the term "entrance": it is not the place where its..inhabitants enter from, but the place where they fire thier weapons from... so entrance it is exactly the front of the cave."<br/>
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Yes, but this is my question: How can I see on the map ...

Thanks, bigtroutz, for trying to answer the question.

However, in that thread I only find how to take out/or ignore the caves but not the answer to my questions:

1. How do I know where the entrance is?
2. What area can the cave fire into?

<t>I am still in the process of learning what is special in SPWAW compared with the old SP.<br/>
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It is stated in the manual (ver 5.01) that caves cannot be hit except through the front entrance.<br/>
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So, how do I know where the entrance is? The graphical representation does not make it ...

<t>The Duen series (from memory, so no 100% guarantee):<br/>
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House Atreides<br/>
House Harkonnen<br/>
House Corrino These 3 are the "prelude", by Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson<br/>
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Dune<br/>
Dune Messiah<br/>
Children of Dune<br/>
God, Emperor of Dune<br/>
Heretics of Dune<br/>
Chapter ...

Don't even mention the film! *shudder*
The books are marvelous, but the film was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever seen!