Another try [Closed]

[Mundy]

If nobody's up to try the Bottleneck mod, I would also be willing to give the Big-B mod a shot. Here's the link, as from Anachro's post:

Big-B mod

I'd prefer to take the Allies, as my Japanese skills have historically been pretty bad.

I'll re-post some of the desired settings and such from my other thread here:

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Below are my preferred settings. I tend to be a minimalist with regard to house rules. I will, however, buy out units before exiting national boundaries. I will also run anti-shipping B-17 at at least 5,000 ft. I know some people want them at 10,000, but at the Bismarck Sea, they did come in at that altitude. I could also see them skip bombing at night, as they were used that ways also.

You'll want a copy of a fresh "virgin" install to put this one into. Due to the map changes, you don't want this clobbering any other games you have. WITP is nice in that you can simply make a second copy of the existing game directory and set up shortcuts to that one.

Some of the game settings. I don't want any "surprises" this time.

Realism:
Historical First Turn - Off
Dec 7 Surprise - On
Player Defined Upgrades - Your choice
Reinforcements - Variable is nice. If you want extremely variable, I'm fine with that. I just don't want everything arriving like a train schedule

Game Options
Combat Reports - most definitely ON
Auto Sub Ops - most definitely OFF
Accept Air & Ground Replacements - On please. I hate flipping everything that arrives.

Try to keep the scenario file the same number. Tracker doesn't seem to like it when the file number is flipped every turn.

This will come up as Scenario 199.

I would like to get about 2 turns a day in, so that the war progresses. I could live with one a day if need be. If you're near the US CDT time zone, it'll probably help. If we have breaks now and then, that's fine. And yes, I know turn 1 may need a few days.

I'll most likely put this in an AAR.

[SierraJuliet]

Hi Mundy

I'm interested. Currently in game hiatus. Intrigued with Bottleneck and would like to have a go at that one but hopelessly lost with the mechanics of getting the game set up. The whole premise of a fresh "virgin" install is where I go ok... where to from here!

Any way you have my interest but probably need some time to get up and running and then work out how to re-orientate myself to to new playing conditions. Naturally I would be happy to order the red side around.

I'm generally a steady 1 turn a day player and at times raise myself to a couple of turns a day. So if you're keen to help me set this up at my end perhaps we can set up terms of engagement.

Steve

[Mundy]

Sounds good. LST's mod can be a little tricky to get all the art files into the right directories. I'll look at making a quick guide tomorrow after work. To start with, you can do a copy and paste of the main WITP folder within the 'Matrix Games' folder. I add 'Bottleneck' to the end of the new WITP folder's name.

[SierraJuliet]

Excellent. I shall tinker with it tonight and see how far I can progress on my own. I will send you a PM with a little more about myself as well.