FitE2 version 1.9 David (Axis) Hellen (Soviet)

[Hellen_slith]

David has the move, let's watch news from Moscow!
The Soviets are on the move! Good shooty parts at about one minute in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkcyEvMGwc

[Hellen_slith]

Well I dood it again, that newsreel was from the future of 1942.

Which we now begin

[Hellen_slith]

Winter, 1942. Soviets move 058
7 January 1942

Storms seem to have abated.
Stalin has sent 7th NKVD Motorized to "bolster" Red Front.
Red Front's goal: Trubchevsk.

Green and Blue Fronts aim for Novgorod-Siverky.

I thought this screenshot was informative: n.b.
how Red, Green, and Blue "fronts" (i.e., armies)
all have the same brown background color on their chits.
This means Red / Green / Blue will all cooperate to some extent.

Note also the delicate arrangement of Red HQs (all w/ their artillery pieces pointed East)
who will "fire for effect" at range, relentlessly,
for at least two combat rounds to soften up the German entrenchments before advancing the forward Red Infantry.

Also, note well how the Soviet units are not subdivided.
But nearly ALL of the Germans are subdivided.

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: cathar1244

@Hellen

Unrelated to this thread -- please see https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4954562

Thanks and Cheers

Hey cathar! I hope The Next War Expanded is still in the works ... w/re/to that, I MADE FItE2 CRASH!!! Just like the other!!!!! I recreated it inadvertently but ah sure did it <pumps fist> YES!! Here i did what happened:

A few moves ago as Leningrad was falling, I thought, "That Baltic Fleet. Its done. But cannot disband." So I decided to run the boats up along Finland coast and suicide them by Finn coastal artillery. And it was working .... I was doing it, unit by naval unit. Scrolling the map. When ... the ... game ..... started ...... herky jerky slow down .... and I was like ..... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! ITS THE CRASH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG !!!!!!!!!!!!"

And show nuff, she tanked. CTD it did. Thankfully it happened at the beginning of the move, I had just started moving units.

So there ya go. Crash from Next War Expanded recreated in FitE2. By doing the same thing: move naval units about, scroll map.

Mr. D opined that he figures it is a leak in "virtual memory" whatever THAT is. EDIT: scratch that Win10, I just checked, it is a pure Win7 machine, air gapped from internet and I use it solely to play TOAW and just one other non-internet game (and me personal works in progress). I transfer PBM and other files for TOAW from laptop via thumb drive

Hope to see more Next War! And hope you can use this info to help plug the leak? Maybe forward

info to Ralph? Maybe Bob knows what to do with it. I think maybe I should have a crash log? I forget where to find or what called.

[Hellen_slith]

Move number 060: Soviets fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUnzgXPrDg

[cathar1244]

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith

ORIGINAL: cathar1244

@Hellen

Unrelated to this thread -- please see https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4954562

Thanks and Cheers

Hey cathar! I hope The Next War Expanded is still in the works ... w/re/to that, I MADE FItE2 CRASH!!! Just like the other!!!!! I recreated it inadvertently but ah sure did it <pumps fist> YES!! Here i did what happened:

A few moves ago as Leningrad was falling, I thought, "That Baltic Fleet. Its done. But cannot disband." So I decided to run the boats up along Finland coast and suicide them by Finn coastal artillery. And it was working .... I was doing it, unit by naval unit. Scrolling the map. When ... the ... game ..... started ...... herky jerky slow down .... and I was like ..... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! ITS THE CRASH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG !!!!!!!!!!!!"

And show nuff, she tanked. CTD it did. Thankfully it happened at the beginning of the move, I had just started moving units.

So there ya go. Crash from Next War Expanded recreated in FitE2. By doing the same thing: move naval units about, scroll map.

Mr. D opined that he figures it is a leak in "virtual memory" whatever THAT is. EDIT: scratch that Win10, I just checked, it is a pure Win7 machine, air gapped from internet and I use it solely to play TOAW and just one other non-internet game (and me personal works in progress). I transfer PBM and other files for TOAW from laptop via thumb drive

Hope to see more Next War! And hope you can use this info to help plug the leak? Maybe forward

info to Ralph? Maybe Bob knows what to do with it. I think maybe I should have a crash log? I forget where to find or what called.

Thanks, that is good info.

Yeah, I need to get off dead center and finish the touching up of TNW-Expanded scenario.

Your info above suggests there may be a bug with naval movement in certain scenarios. How much of a turn-off would NWE-Expanded be without naval forces (events would have to simulate battles at sea) ?

Cheers

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: cathar1244

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith

ORIGINAL: cathar1244

@Hellen

Unrelated to this thread -- please see https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4954562

Thanks and Cheers

Hey cathar! I hope The Next War Expanded is still in the works ... w/re/to that, I MADE FItE2 CRASH!!! Just like the other!!!!! I recreated it inadvertently but ah sure did it <pumps fist> YES!! Here i did what happened:

A few moves ago as Leningrad was falling, I thought, "That Baltic Fleet. Its done. But cannot disband." So I decided to run the boats up along Finland coast and suicide them by Finn coastal artillery. And it was working .... I was doing it, unit by naval unit. Scrolling the map. When ... the ... game ..... started ...... herky jerky slow down .... and I was like ..... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! ITS THE CRASH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG !!!!!!!!!!!!"

And show nuff, she tanked. CTD it did. Thankfully it happened at the beginning of the move, I had just started moving units.

So there ya go. Crash from Next War Expanded recreated in FitE2. By doing the same thing: move naval units about, scroll map.

Mr. D opined that he figures it is a leak in "virtual memory" whatever THAT is. EDIT: scratch that Win10, I just checked, it is a pure Win7 machine, air gapped from internet and I use it solely to play TOAW and just one other non-internet game (and me personal works in progress). I transfer PBM and other files for TOAW from laptop via thumb drive

Hope to see more Next War! And hope you can use this info to help plug the leak? Maybe forward

info to Ralph? Maybe Bob knows what to do with it. I think maybe I should have a crash log? I forget where to find or what called.

Thanks, that is good info.

Yeah, I need to get off dead center and finish the touching up of TNW-Expanded scenario.

Your info above suggests there may be a bug with naval movement in certain scenarios. How much of a turn-off would NWE-Expanded be without naval forces (events would have to simulate battles at sea) ?

Cheers

While it is fun to have the boats as did Bob in the original, I recall that he also had event ... I think it was Battle of the Atlantic that determines something about NATO reinforcement arrivals, not sure. I never did much w/ the boats in Next War, I think it wouldn't be any great loss to simply take out the boats. That would take out the ability of a user to inadvertently cause the crash from the naval movement. They play a very minor role, and as you say and as Bob demonstrated in the OG version, naval events can be modeled at the strategic level.

Well, I think I'll give a try at making other scenes crash if they have boats. I don't think Larry ever reported any crashes in his Pacific scene that he did AAR on recently. I know he had the crash during our game of NW: Expanded (Beta). I think I'll try to crash the Pacific one, that has lots of naval.

Anyway -- well eager to play NW:Expanded! Love the Next War!

FitE2 is pretty cool, too. Have a great day!

[Hellen_slith]

here is screenshot from during playback of Mr. D's move 61

[Hellen_slith]

That fool Jerry Clower managed to grab this shot from during the inter-turn processing:

[Hellen_slith]

at Soviets move 64

A breakthrough, right betwixt AGN and AGC.
Love da smell of Katyushas in the mornin'!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWt81vhIyY

[Hellen_slith]

Here come some more bottle rockets for Herr Schickelgruber's Kerschnozzle!

[Hellen_slith]

Leningrad sector(Front "Shostakovich")

[Hellen_slith]

The Red Colossus gathers momentum.

They seek Nazi War Criminals.

"Hopper" designated "Shoot on sight" as revenge for execution of Russian Orthodox Priests in cold blood, a rather distasteful act of criminality under cover of war.

[Hellen_slith]

1 Nazi down, five million to go

[Hellen_slith]

turn Soviets 067

Roosevelt sends stuff now to Stalin. Like these P40.

French Traitorous Collaborators found translating Russian to French to German!!!

They have been sentenced in absentia to hanging until dead by Free French Courts!

Execution to be carried out by Sergeant Nickels of the British Expeditionary Armored Engineers
who has been loaned to Stalin by the Brits in that Iran thing (he flew in from Cairo for the job.)

Its complicated.

[Hellen_slith]

I finally figured out how to do the space view




oh and the news (includes more pix of armored trains)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_snl__VqHSg

[Hellen_slith]

at Soviets move 69
I think we'll try to hold at the Volkhov
Storms are storming, more mud soon

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith

I finally figured out how to do the space view

With the walls caving in, the Germans really need to get out of that salient.

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: golden delicious

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith

I finally figured out how to do the space view

With the walls caving in, the Germans really need to get out of that salient.

They rush to grind bones and hide the evidence of their atrocity!

But it is too late! Films were made! OH, the HUMANITY!!

It is truly ... a SACRED WAR!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUnzgXPrDg

[Hellen_slith]

at move 072 Soviets (22 Feb 1942)

Sgt Nickels, embedded w/ the "Bon Bons" he calls the Sov SF,
continues the hunt for the Evil Frog Lady
recently escaped from Free French interrogators who almost nabbed her
for counterfeiting.