RHS 5, 6 & 7.7862 uploaded

[el cid again]

We are uploaded. I am not in Australia and I don't know what Cobra's status is - HE does the posting. Meanwhile you have to get things from someone on the primary distribution list.

I thought you might be being funny. Same same for New Orleans - the Japanese are not permitted on the ship tracks approaching it - or indeed in the Caribbean Sea (but they CAN take Panama - and they CAN send ANY SORT OF SHIP to Panama to try - a dangerous gambit IMHO but one always permitted even in CHS - and the reason there are defenses in Panama in the first place.

[el cid again]

Level 6 RHS scenarios packaged and uploaded. It is my sincere hope this is the final form for them all. I am not at this time maintaining Level 6 files - and won't unless a major reason appears.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: el cid again

Level 6 RHS scenarios packaged and uploaded. It is my sincere hope this is the final form for them all. I am not at this time maintaining Level 6 files - and won't unless a major reason appears.

I suspect most of us playing RHS have converted to series 7 now, anyway..

[el cid again]

Interestingly, it is not what I am hearing. Some people think it is too complicated with all those extra maps/tracks - and they have no idea what to do with them! I would have dropped support but for complaints. There also are people who prefer Level 5 - which is very close to what they are used to with CHS and the Extended Map system of Andrew Brown.

[m10bob]

Somebody suggested I move up frm series 6 and I don't see any reson to restrict my play further..
I also don't understand the complexity seen by using the channels, anymore than one might need to traverse the Sea of Japan, etc........

[el cid again]

Although it could not be posted - Matrix site was not accessable for quite a while from my part of the world at least -
I posted microupdates for Levels 6 and 7 - which mainly correct a problem with the Beaufort Nightfighter never being produced - and change a few Japanese LCU to the current year squad type when they appear (increasing economic efficiency - they will automatically change - but cost HI points to do so).

At the same time, I uploaded Level 5.7861 - and it is already at the same standard - so no update applies to it.

What was not uploaded - ever - anywhere - is the unissued EEO - which is not completed. That is next. The process of completing it will uncover eratta - and so you may expect a x.7862 microupdate folding that into other scenarios - but that will only be for future tense games unless something serious is found.

[m10bob]

Where are they posted?
I sent you my private res e-mail address as well..Thank you.

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

Where are they posted?
I sent you my private res e-mail address as well..Thank you.

Watch Cobras RHS Download thread for posting notices. The board has been down - so until he figures out it is up - he won't update.

If you sent an address, I will send the requested item. I have been doing it all day for all requests - it is my SOP.

[Historiker]

Where is 7.86 uploaded?
I find it nowhere and google can't help me, too...

[el cid again]

It does not appear Cobra is operational.

I am uploading directly - except for ol dog - whose ISP refused delivery.

If you can accept large enough files from AOL - send me your address.

[el cid again]

Due to a lot of requests for files, I am going to issue a slightly updated comprehensive file set tomorrow. I will work in as much eratta as I can, and I have already got some done. I also reworked the major class of Japanese DEs (not always as DEs), and some secondary ones. I also have reworked - and will re-rework- Mizuho and Nisshin for CVO/BBO.

I will then upload to a primary distribution list doubled in length.

I will then investigate posting to a site which can be downloaded from - or having Historiker do so.

And we will see if Mifune can update the RHS site?

But this won't be quite final - I have about 200 eratta to investigate from utilities - and the process of completing EEO will surely find ship and LCU eratta which - as discovered - are worked into ALL scenarios. That process will complete in a few days. Then we (hopefully) will freeze for a test period - and insure the RHS site gets that form.

For the moment - I am going to get some sleep.

[drw61]

El Cid,  (AIO 7.86 and CVO 7.86)
 
I was looking at how you had changed aircraft upgrade paths and noticed the following.
 
Slot 115 B-25H upgrades to 149 P-51D
Slot 118 B-26G upgrades to 154 P-80A
Slot 161 OSU-3 upgrades to 160 F-6D
Slot 171 Blenheim I upgrades to 210 Vengeance I
Slot 163 PV-1/B34 upgrades to 164 PV1 Night Fighter (should this be the PV-2 Harpoon?)
Slot 247 TBD upgrades to 101 SB2C
 
By the way, I really like putting the planes manufacture on the map.  (I hated that in one day I was suddenly producing 200 SB2Cs)

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: drw61

El Cid,  (AIO 7.86 and CVO 7.86)

I was looking at how you had changed aircraft upgrade paths and noticed the following.

Slot 115 B-25H upgrades to 149 P-51D

REPLY: Yes it does. This first of all because that is actually what happened at that factory! I started doing real factories at real locations - then added in the rest at the edges. Other cases are more related to getting production numbers right. But these are done so the Allied numbers are reasonably correct - and early types are sunsetted. It is a compromise - because Code interprets "upgrade" in another way as well. But some strange upgrade options are generated by code already - and players need to have some judgement when implementing them. I trust players to do the "sensible" thing. And - in fact - a few units DO make wierd conversions (particularly in USMC) - so if it happens - well that is what the game commanders wanted. Ultimately, pilots can fly anything if they have to. Note in the somewhat fictional movie Pearl Harbor (Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid are not exactly fictional) the characters switch from fighters to medium bombers! Marines for some reason thought fighter pilots should start out as observation pilots. And that might be just old thinking - WWI fighters were essentially army observation aircraft.



Slot 118 B-26G upgrades to 154 P-80A

REPLY: not because it did, but because I lack slots, the B-26G should not produce forever, and the P-80 needs to enter at about the right time - and the production rate is right. Modding is compromising - and here we are severely constrained by data base resources - or we must put production in the middle of the map.

Slot 161 OSU-3 upgrades to 160 F-6D


REPLY: I don't remember why - but it probably is deliberate.


Slot 171 Blenheim I upgrades to 210 Vengeance I

REPLY: Same as the P-80 case - more or less.


Slot 163 PV-1/B34 upgrades to 164 PV1 Night Fighter (should this be the PV-2 Harpoon?)

REPLY: Back to the top, this one is right - in production terms. PV-1 Night Fighters should come from the PV-1 line - and did.


Slot 247 TBD upgrades to 101 SB2C

REPLY: A compromise - where else do I get SB2Cs from in the right quantity at the right time? This is a first pass experiment with this concept.


By the way, I really like putting the planes manufacture on the map.  (I hated that in one day I was suddenly producing 200 SB2Cs)

The new system is full of compromises - but it seems to address several problems better than before. We get rid of old types in favor of new ones. Many - not enough but many - aircraft phase in from 1 - or they phase in at the rate of the line they take over but increase from that point up to the real peak. At least not all start out at large values. And this approach - sunsetting some types - means the monthly rates during a limited run are much larger - and when that is small - it was wholly impractical before because we had to spread it out for a long time (or sometimes I gave you enough to out fit units - but the rate for the whole war ended up way too high - in particular this was a problem for USN night fighters).

[eloso]

Any reason why Bombay doesn't have a port in AIO?

[el cid again]

Not a good reason - all RIVER ports became airfields - but Bombay isn't a river port. It needs to be a major port.


Fixed in x.7852 review.

[ny59giants]

In RHSRAO level 7 the one SBD squadron aboard the Saratoga that you designate as (AP) actually has GP bombs as its load. The other 2 CV's at start are correct (1000lb AP x 1). 

[CobraAus]

I am on stand by for for the next version which has not appeared yet

cobra Aus

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

In RHSRAO level 7 the one SBD squadron aboard the Saratoga that you designate as (AP) actually has GP bombs as its load. The other 2 CV's at start are correct (1000lb AP x 1). 

Fixed for x.7852 review - wrong in all scenarios at all levels. This sort of error is easy to get - because the unit DIFFERS from the aircraft norm - any click on the airccraft type will change to the default weapon. RHS is riddled with "errors" of this deliberate sort - we call em "multiple loadouts" for a plane type.

[el cid again]

ORIGINAL: CobraAus

I am on stand by for for the next version which has not appeared yet

cobra Aus

But it will appear soon. A good deal more ship eratta occurred than I like - no ammo for light AA guns - no facing for some update class main guns or DC on the revised Japanese DDs - and all are fixed. Some revision of the Allied aircraft production scheme to reduce things which have unfortunate interactions with code.

[m10bob]

Did you intend to change those Australian corvettes to DMS's? (If so, RHSCVO.7 still shows them as standard MSW's..)
Bangor/Bathurst class in RHS.