War in Spain 1936-39 is the first in a new wargame series, using a new Land-Sea-Air engine inspired by War in the Pacific - Admiral’s Edition. Gameplay and realism are improved by TRUE AI and a detailed Logistics systems. A hyper detailed OOB reaches down to battalion and company level. A beautiful, hand drawn, 5 nautical mile per hex map massively increases player immersion.
A bug fixing update that stabilizes War in Spain further.
Fixes center on Land Combat Units, Data Changes, as well as changes to the Play-by-Email system. We recommend players interested in PBEM read the following forum thread for important procedure changes: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=416370
Crash Fixes
• Fixed crash when loading troops in ocean hex
Preferences
• Added in another video resolution option
• Fix display of current resolution on Preferences
• Fixed an issue with display settings in Preferences
• Fixed the Amphibious Invasion setting in Advanced Preferences
• Preferences now will adjust the top and bottom bar sizes
User Interface
• When sidebar is hidden, mousing over where it would normally be no longer causes a change in focus
• Fixed jump map position in zoom out
• Fixed some mouseover on LCU stack being too large
• Fixed issue with hex ownership color on Combat Group window
• Remove AFV and Armaments rows from bases
• Adjusted sidebar default location to make screen scrolling to the left work more reliably
• Fixed several display issues with land groups in the sidebar
• Fixed a display issue when you change replacements with multiple units selected
• Fix to prevent the sidebar from doing anything during a turn execution
Campaign
• Rebalanced FOW on ground unit losses
Order of Battle
• Fixed issue when detached BN cannot be added to OOB again
Land Combat Units
• Creating a unit works when not in a base hex
• Creating a unit creates the correct unit type
• Fixed issue caused by fixing LCU XP from replacements
• Fixed occasional issue with moving DIV / BDE being formed up from children
• Fixed a bug in tactical reserve command for LCU
• Fixed an issue with land groups and one element that is set to static, disabling movement for the entire stack
Naval Combat
• Fixed issue where AA guns on ships fired AP shells at ships
Land Combat
• Rebalanced rules for defensive artillery
AI
• Fixed AI merging RSV units without clearing the fuel out (fixed in earlier version, documented here)
Data Changes
• Corrected templates for scenarios 01, 04, 08.
• Removed AA german unit in Falset (Ebro scenario)
• New color for Portugal en strategic map
• Corrected Pollensa in 01, 05, 06, and 07 scenarios
• Removed duplicate L3/33 unit in scenario 01
• Reduced mobility of the nationalist artillery in Madrid at the start of the main campaign.
• Corrected "Cruces Negras" militia
• Reduced the initial experience of the Falange militias and the Requetés
• Removed train depots in bases without railroads.
• Updated Scenario 08 (Teruel)
• Typo errors fixed
• Removed 32 T-26s in "8o batallon de carros de combate"
• Corrected La Corunna hexes: one hex for La Coruña and one hex for El Burgo
• Removed air base in Ares (not historical)
• Removed Train depot en Arguedas (not railroad)
• Corrected data of XIII, XIV and Dabrowski international brigades
• Corrected data of 66 Mixed Brigade
• Corrected OOB of scen 01, 03, 05, 06, 09 and 10
• The experience of republican units has been increased in scenario 03
• Corrected TOEs in the update of the republican militias into mixed brigades
• Fixed Bases in same hex + arrival dates Play-by-Email
• Fixed issue with turn summary in PBEM
• Added more text to ops report in case of PBEM synch mismatch
• Fixed issue with time scale starting in 1 sec and switch to 5 only after that in PBEM
• SCN checksums are now different due to a bug fix in the encryption - this will force all players out there to update their PBEM games by the keycode system
• Added file time stamp check for find PBEM import game to use
• Some preferences now locked with a PBEM save is loaded
• The sidebar now disappears when turn processing for PBEM
• Fixed crash bug when running PBEM turns
Bug Fixing
• Fixed nation AC pool numbers that got caused by wrong SCN data. Unused AC slots had nation and a pool number
• Fixed issue when starting SCN in a row could change text sizes
• Fixed a case where a player managed to get RR cars move off track
Manual
• Section 3.2- Updated PBEM sequence of play
• Section 2.2.2.1.1- Fixed replacement model descriptions
• Section 2.2.2.1.1- Updated Preferences descriptions for combat groups
• Section 7.7.1- Changed section callout from 7.6.3 to 7.7.3.
• Section 16.5- Changed section callout from 7.6.4 to 7.7.3.
• Section 6.17- Updated wording of section to be clearer
• Section 9.9.1- Updated wording to be clearer
• Section 8.2.8- updated
• Section 6.7.2- Updated port information screen
• Section 6.16- updated section pointer location from 9.1 to 10.2.1.
Thank you for your continual updates and pursuit of perfecting this game. My first question after every update is, "is this save breaking?" I assume that this would be noted in the change log if it was needed? My concern with this update in regard to breaking my current save are the data changes that were made. I'm playing a non-PBEM save but the data changes may require a new save?
Thanks. I look forward to WIS further evolving and also seeing what is next for this engine.
Thank you for your continual updates and pursuit of perfecting this game. My first question after every update is, "is this save breaking?" I assume that this would be noted in the change log if it was needed? My concern with this update in regard to breaking my current save are the data changes that were made. I'm playing a non-PBEM save but the data changes may require a new save?
Thanks. I look forward to WIS further evolving and also seeing what is next for this engine.
It seems to have broken the LCU sidebar for me, reports from the previous turn (seemingly resolves itself upon passing a turn), as well as running visibly slower. So I would update at your own peril.
