Ostfront H2H

[jjdenver]

Ah g'luck CC - hope to see you in a few months.

[british exil]

Captain thanks for introducing out a monster scenario, will try to get a grip on the size of it. Looking forward to trying out the new idea of refits and such.

Have fun with your battles in the Pacific.

Don't forget us here in the forum.

[bwheatley]

cruft i am going to get a copy of AE tonight too i am a big witp/ wpo fan and would love to do a game if you wanted.

[bwheatley]

man mid ocean intercepts sounds awesome:) you can finally do a proper blockade. I <3 matrix games

[bwheatley]

boom copy of WITP:AE purchased hit me up and we can try a pbem

[Jeffrey H.]

bah, was looking forward to a conclusion.

[Captain Cruft]

I think it will be a while before I try AE as a PBEM. Playing the AI is pretty good and there is a lot to learn.

[Captain Cruft]

Updated Scenario

Following this game and the bwheatley/arabullian one I have made an updated scenario. It is just a patch and does not extend the duration.

Changes:-

1. Refit Centres removed as they cannot be made to work.
2. Initial Soviet armour units experience increased from 20 to 40.
3. Soviet infantry reinforcements have 50% more Rifle units (12 -> 18).
4. Soviet armour reinforcements have 200% more T-34 units (1 -> 3).
5. Infantry and Wagon (horse) movement types have been slowed down by 30% on road/rail and plains.

I felt that the Soviets were a bit too weak, and also that the German infantry and artillery had little trouble keeping up with the panzer divisions.

As always, it's very experimental.

You can download the file at http://s1.anomalus.net/pbem/Ostfront-0_97.pt2

N.B. The strange URL is just because it's a direct link to one of my web servers. There is (sadly) no "Captain Cruft" website as such ...

[Khanti]

You can download the file at http://s1.anomalus.net/pbem/Ostfront-0_97.pt2

Can someone re-upload this version? This link seems dead now.

[Captain Cruft]

Hi Hanti,

I'm not sure what happened to version 0.97 but here is a link to 0.96

http://forsdaa2.miniserver.com/ostfront-096.zip

[Khanti]

Hi Captain!

That is rather strange saying by creator of the mod that he is not sure what happened to his mod
Anyway what about version 0.98 of the existing scen (the first objective) that was announced somewhere in 2009 (War in the East\Ostfront II thread)?

I just ask because I discovered that in ATG 2.15i your scenario can be launched with working AI.

I started campaign in 0.96 against German AI and it plays quite normally like any other AI game. Of course AI can do a lot of stupid things, but at least it is now possible to try it. AI attacks, encircles and kills my units, moves forward to Moscow, so far, so well. Soviet AI works too.

Now while it can be played against AI, it is possible to actually use it. It takes a lot of time and involvement to make a turn, but AI has enough patience for everyone I consider your scenario as one of the very best made for all versions of AT. It is complicated, but playing on Soviet side it gives player a real feeling of all their mess and disorder

[Captain Cruft]

I lost version 0.97. It is a long time since I looked at this and I won't be doing anything else with it. WitE does everything I wanted to do and better.