Play testers for ETO II

[olivier34]

ok, just back from work and I received the folder. I will play the allies. this is my first PBEM in my wargaming life. I will do an AAR but maybe not less detailed than my first one.

[gwgardner]

I use gamer's gate, and the 1.70 hotfix installer doesn't recognize the gamer's gate serial. What files are in the hotfix, and can someone zip them up and send them or post them for download somewhere? I hate to play without the hotfix, doesn't that correct the problem rolling 6s?

[gwgardner]

ORIGINAL: Uxbridge


PS And, Olivier, maybe you can do one of your splendid AAR:s if GW promise not to look. [:)]

No attempt at obfuscation or denial of access will foil the Abwehr.

[gwgardner]

Where is the definitive explanation of the original ETO, which I assume is still the basis for ETO II? Is the original explanation in this mod forum for ETO I the place to go? Or is the mod explained somewhere else?

[Uxbridge]

I can't say there is a definite explanation. The scenario has evolved constantly from the first version to the present. In fact, the roots was back in Road to Victory and many aspects was imported to Time of Wrath. My very first explanation of "ETO" was in the beginning of this thread:

Version I

I would advice some caution reading the old rules. You might pick up things there and inadvertenly apply it to ETO II.

When I begin to write down the rules you can now see on HQ, I removed things either not important or liable to cause confusion.

Anything in particular you're wondering about?

[gwgardner]

ORIGINAL: Uxbridge

I can't say there is a definite explanation. The scenario has evolved constantly from the first version to the present. In fact, the roots was back in Road to Victory and many aspects was imported to Time of Wrath. My very first explanation of "ETO" was in the beginning of this thread:

Version I

I would advice some caution reading the old rules. You might pick up things there and inadvertenly apply it to ETO II.

When I begin to write down the rules you can now see on HQ, I removed things either not important or liable to cause confusion.

Anything in particular you're wondering about?

Everything. The ETO II notes seem to imply that they were merely the changes for ETOII. I was thinking I needed to review what came before.

[Uxbridge]

I will try to locate the Blitz explanation also. That was the mid-game of sort. I will mail it to you directly.

[Uxbridge]

ORIGINAL: olivier34

ok, just back from work and I received the folder. I will play the allies. this is my first PBEM in my wargaming life. I will do an AAR but maybe not less detailed than my first one.

The very first, eh? Well, from now on, nothing will ever be the same. [:)]

[olivier34]

the very first PBM but I got a little problem when I try to launch the scenario.
I did put the unitsskin and mapskin folders in the gfx folder, the event file in the events folder and the ETO II TEST folder in the scenarios'folder.
I get this:

[olivier34]

And when I click on it, the game crash...

[olivier34]

Am I the only one to have a problem ? I have tried on a different computer, it didn't work either...The french army is not ready for the war I guess...

[Uxbridge]

Not good. [:D]

I will try to see if there's something that we others have, since we have played each others before, but that is not present in your files.

You are running 1.70 with that hotfix?

Can you also mail me the ConsoleOut located in the WW2 Time of Wrath folder. It has to be a file taken immediataly after a crash.

By the way, are you in France or the USA?

[olivier34]

I am in France, south of France near the city of Montpellier. I am running 1.70...i mail you the ConsoleOut file

[Uxbridge]

Then we're on the same side of the Atlantic. Could you start the game now?

[olivier34]

no...I can load my ETO I game but when I try to launch a new game of either ETO or ETO II TEST, the game crash...I am planing to reinstall the software and the 1.70 hotfix...

[olivier34]

shame on me...I had not install the proper 1.70....now everything is fine...hope that you didn't waste to much time on my "problem"

[olivier34]

I email Gary that he can begin...

[Uxbridge]

Lovely. No, I didn't waste any time in vain. Everytime you try to fix something you'll learn something new.

Good you're on.

[gwgardner]

The only rule I don't approve of is allowing minors to send any amount of pps to other countries. Should be restricted just as for majors. The whole emphasis of the mod is on realism and historicity, so allowing such wholesale transfers seems out of character with the rest of the mod.

[olivier34]

i just red the rules again. About pps, and regarding Great britain, it seems that all of the Canada, middle east and India PP's are part of the "british" pps but have to get to great britain by sea. Which minor countrys should keep most of his pps ? For my part, Belgium, Netherlands for exemple will spend all their pps for himselfs when at war...
ok, I play and email you the file.