Question after capain against computer

[Gruvan]

Hi,

Just finishing 1941 camapgn, as german, against computer. did not fell it so easy, very hard for me to conquest moscow. Only two weeks left before winter arrive, draw was not far away. Now, The victory condition are made, just finishing the work for fun(What if germany meeting japan, War in pacifiq developpement possible here, shurly not the first to think on it)


Questions :

I never succeded in creating a new geman head quarter Any idea about that ?

I usually have memory problems : I just could not do anything to change equipment for tank division : not enought memory (Windows 98, Pentium III, 320 Mo Ram). I think this is not enought dos memory. If someone has an idea without destroying unstable windoms register..

I fought against computer and feel it hard. On the hell, how can the german side conquer Moscow against a human opponent in that game. Reading posts in here, it sems possible but I can hardly imagine.

One last : I concentrat all my efforts against soviet air army in the beginig of the game. But, after a few turns, main of my airfield bombing just bomb deserted places. Does it mean surviving planes retreated in background HQ ?

that's all for this one.

Gruvan

Just one thing : I do not think I can manage regularity and time for PBEM now. I'll check in here if so.

[Preuss]

Hi, Gruvan

As far as I know, you cannot create any more headquarters than the scenario starts with.

I'm not a whiz a computers so will leave your memory problems to others who have mentioned them before.

The Germans can take Moscow before the first rains...it's been done to me...it just takes a quick drive it seems, not allowing the soviet player enough time to entrench well.

The AI seems to allow Russian air units to disappear from the map, then bring them back whenever it desires. A human opponent can't do this.

Hope I've been helpful

[RickyB]

On the memory issue, try this link, although you can do a search and possibly find better ones:
showthread.php?s=&threadid=9477&highlig ... ry+problem

As Preuss says, you cannot create HQs if none are available, and in the 1941 campaign none are. Otherwise, you would go to an empty hex and select Util-Add HQ. You can create new corps by going to an empty hex and Util-Add Unit or F5. For a corps/Soviet Army, you must place at least one unit in it or it will disappear.

And on the air units, I don't know if the Soviet air units leave the map, but the AI will place them in HQs toward the map edge east of Moscow for sure.

[czerpak]

Originally posted by Gruvan
Hi,


I fought against computer and feel it hard. On the hell, how can the german side conquer Moscow against a human opponent in that game. Reading posts in here, it sems possible but I can hardly imagine.


Gruvan

Just one thing : I do not think I can manage regularity and time for PBEM now. I'll check in here if so.

Gruvan,
take a time and read some strategy tips at Dave's Corner , and (strongely recommended) find a way to play against real opponent and you will find out how easy it is to loose both Leningrad and Moscow before winter comes
But that not necceserly means victory for Germans - if soviets keep enough reserves their blizzard drive can be devastating to Wehrmacht ( to quote Preuss : it's been done to me
Czerpak

[Rex Scaniae]

About the memory problems,
I solved it by editing my config.sys file (located in the root of your harddrive) with a text editor. To the line that says
"DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE"
add the word 'NOEMS' so it reads
"DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS"
then restart your computer. That should work.

[lupi]

The easiest to adjust your settings is via the msconfig control panel. You'll need about 590k+ to run the program without any errors. Use the mem command to see your current status.If you unload all TSRs disabling the EMS memory manager should clear enough.

[Gruvan]

Hi,

I also use my computer for work, so I'd better not turn on and of ms config options.

does any one know the way to create a light dos boot floppy disk so that to play with a maximum of the 640K DOS memory.

Thanks for all your responses to my previous post.

Gruvan

[Rex Scaniae]

Originally posted by Gruvan
Hi,

I also use my computer for work, so I'd better not turn on and of ms config options.

From my experience I can't see why you should have to turn it on and off. I have the NOEMS option on at all times, and I haven't seen the prestanda of either Windows or any of the applications being affected in any way.

[Gruvan]

I tried with noems. It did not changed anythig. too much windows programs runing I think, that is why I thing about a 1.44 dos prompt disk.

Will tel your more when I try, if I find info that about.

Gruvan

[Rex Scaniae]

Originally posted by Gruvan
I tried with noems. It did not changed anythig. too much windows programs runing I think, that is why I thing about a 1.44 dos prompt disk.

Will tel your more when I try, if I find info that about.

Gruvan

If you have to many programs running in the background there is a nifty little appliance called EndItAll.exe freely available on the net, just search for it on altavista or something like that. It lets you turn off a lot of the little procedures that are going on. It has worked well for me when I wanted to free up some more memory.

[Ranger-75]

to make a :boot disk" with winBLOWS 95 or 98, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, then doubleclick Add/Remove Programs. Then select Startup Disk".

This will allow you to make a boot disk that can read the large hard disk winblows partition on your disk. Just CD into the correct directory and fire up WIR (or PacWar for that matter).