Garrison Surrender bug?

[Taxman66]

A very minor one.

[PvtBenjamin]

I always fill those forts with corps, agreed its very minor 70MPP or so. I'm certainly not ending my game (i'm Allied) because of it.

No I didn't install hotfix

[James Taylor]

total 46 MPPs to correct the garrison disappearing act. is it really worth it? Play on!

[PvtBenjamin]

they are 35 each correct and there are 2 of them.

What am I missing.

[LordOfPants]

They would be 35 to buy new, but they count as destroyed while in supply so have the asterisk beside them and only cost 23 to rebuild.

[Guderian1940]

What if this bug affects other turns that we do not know about. Other things may still not be right. It does not feel like the same.

It should be fixed right away. IMHO

[Guderian1940]

You forget the 6 strength and experience level. When The USSR only gets 10-20 points a turn, at the beginning, not so easy to replace. Certainly not a handicap the USSR needs early on.

And you guys are forgetting the combat loss bug with the non 01 version.

[PvtBenjamin]

In my games its only the Brest garrison that is missing an it costs 21 mpp to replace, there is no option for a 6 str garrison.

Now that we can get out of the weeds.

Yes Guderian it should be fixed, I never do this hot fix things

[Christolos]

ORIGINAL: Guderian1940

You forget the 6 strength and experience level. When The USSR only gets 10-20 points a turn, at the beginning, not so easy to replace. Certainly not a handicap the USSR needs early on.

And you guys are forgetting the combat loss bug with the non 01 version.

+1

This is clearly a bug and has been fixed with the hotfix. Why the fuss about playing on with a bug?

IMHO, I think the Allies are clearly disadvantaged by this, especially against a very experienced and calculating Axis opponent where every single MPP counts (i.e., someone like Sugar...).

C

[Taxman66]

2 Garrisons for Russia (even with an elite pip) are not going to make a difference one way or the other.
If you could cash them out for MPP most players probably would.
You shouldn't leave them in front of the Germans, as they won't slow them and they do nothing but give away easy experience.
I shipped one into the Russian controlled port in Finland (as Finland was about to join anyway) simply as a nuisance, but I think they are better off either Garrisoning Black Sea ports (other than Sevastopol and Rostov of course) or shipped to Northern Finland to block the roads from Finnish GARR/Corps from encroaching on the rail line to Murmansk.


The higher randomization of damage fix affects both sides equally so shouldn't be a help or hindrance.

[Christolos]

Good points!

Having options of doing other things with them other than leaving them to die uselessly in the forts, only reinforces my thinking that they are still important nonetheless, and I don't like the idea of losing them for this reason.

I also like the idea of swapping them out with corps, as indicated/suggested by PvtBenjamin.

Thanks,

C

[Christolos]

ORIGINAL: Hubert Cater

Here is a hotfix link that should resolve this issue. It is also backwards compatible with v1.13 and current saved games, as well as PBEM++ games in progress, will not be affected:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/donuu4jmi0nnm ... x.zip?dl=0

To use this hotfix, please download from the link above, de-compress the file, and place it into your SC3 installation folder pasting over the existing EXE. Typically this folder can be found here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Matrix Games\Strategic Command WWII - War in Europe

When you then launch the game it should show as v1.13.01 in the bottom right hand corner of the MAIN MENU screen.

Note, this hotfix should work fine for the Matrix installation, Steam users may find that Steam will complain and try and overwrite this file with the Steam version of the EXE which is currently at v1.13.

Is there now a version of the hotfix that Steam users can use?

C

[Hubert Cater]

Not an official version but you could try dropping it into your Steamapps folder and replace the current Steam version of the game EXE. It should work but often Steam will change the file on you without warning if it recognizes it is not "their" file.

We should have an official update soon enough, we are just testing a few more things before we finalize.

[Hubert Cater]

Typically the Steam folder for the game would be this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Strategic Command WWII War in Europe