Here's a way to play multiplayer

[rmmwilg]

Heya Jeff, finally got done with the day's stuff. I've reinstalled and activated Steam, so lemme know! [:D][:D]

Ohh...Just now seeing your last msg. Lemme check for that Steam ID.

[rmmwilg]

Ahh, no msg anywhere (Forum inbox or email)

[rmmwilg]

My Steam ID is rmmwilg

[rmmwilg]

Just sent you a friend rqst in Steam. Least I think it's you [:D]

[Deepstuff3725]

I’m logged in.

[rmmwilg]

Hey everybody, Paullus, LN59 et al, it works! Jeff and I have just been enjoying some TotH multi-player action. TotH takes another giant leap forward! Playing against another person is so much more engaging!

[Deepstuff3725]

That was a blast.

Mike and I played the first 3 turns of “Desperate Counterattack” online and it went really well. I saved the scenario and we’re planning on playing turns 4-7 next week. He took the Germans and I’m defending with American units. So far both of us have experienced times of success and times of hardship in the scenario. What I like is how I could imagine the events that have transpired so far through 3 turns happening in real life. Very cool and realistic squad level combat, and being able to play against another human player makes it really fun.

We chatted on cell speaker phones as we played online via Steam. Mike knows ASL really well so he was able to point some things out as we played. Great game.

Thanks for playing Mike and looking forward to resuming this scenario next week.

Jeff. 😎

[rmmwilg]

Good times [:D][:D]

[Paullus]

So nice to hear. This is something many has wished for but what we were unable to do. Keep us posted. Maybe an AAR?[;)]

[rmmwilg]

Sorry for my illiteracy Paullus - AAR?

[Deepstuff3725]

Believe it means “After Action Report”. It’s a write up describing the battle details and how things went down.

It would be fun to do on this battle, sure.

Mike has brought his Panzer II into a open square and he’s lined up on my Bazooka unit. Looking forward to seeing what happens.

Jeff

[rmmwilg]

Ah ok. Yeh, This is the scenario '011 - Desparate Counterattack':

We're till in the thick of it, but having pushed back the forward posts, I've moved through the first half of the village with minimal casualties and now closing in on the last line of row-buildings. His right flank has pretty much collapsed, and I'm putting heavy pressure on the other, plus the centre simultaneously.

This is not an easy scenario to win as the US, even against the AI, but having said that, ya never know!

The blood letting continues on Monday!

If anybody would like to try do some MMP in this new format, let us know!

[rmmwilg]

Hi Jeff,

Was looking thru Steam to prepare hosting on my PC, but I think I'll wait till we're on the phone again on Monday, and can have you lead me through it. I want to make sure I'm loading this in the right place.

[Deepstuff3725]

Sure Mike, be happy to help when we play tomorrow. No problem.

To make the process a little simpler for anyone interested:

Right now there is a game on Steam called Planet Bounce, and it supports the Remote Play Together.

1. Go on Steam and Search for Planet Bounce. Select play game. Get out of the game.
2. Go into TotH and copy all the folders and files in TotH
3. Open Steam, Steam Aps, Common, and then open the Planet Bounce folder.
4. Paste all TotH files into this folder
5. Delete the Planet Bounce.exe
6. Rename Tigers on the Hunt.exe to Planet Bounce.exe

Done

Run Steam and select to Play Planet Bounce. TotH will launch instead.

Now you can run that game and host a multiplayer game of TotH. You just need to connect in the Friends section, then select Remote Play Together when the game is running.

[rmmwilg]

Thanks Jeff,

My issue was finding the free games associated with Remote Player and maybe that was my hangup. Maybe any free game will do? I want to try something other than Planet Bounce in case the right-click issue is associated with that particular game.

Looking forward to chatting with ya tomorrow. What sorta time do ya think?

[Deepstuff3725]

Would around 1pm Central time work?

[rmmwilg]

Absolutely

[z1812]

@Deepstuff3725, I am always in awe of those who develop these inventive work arounds for software and games.

[rmmwilg]

ORIGINAL: z1812

@Deepstuff3725, I am always in awe of those who develop these inventive work arounds for software and games.

Ditto

[rmmwilg]

Everyone, it absolutely works!

As I said before, this scenario is tough for the US as it is, and I'm afraid things did not improve for Jeff. His left flank collapsed, and with too few squads as it is, the rest just rolled up.
Now that said, playing the AI and playing another person require very different balancing. But the really good news is that we now have proven, MMP TotH!!