Starting scenario as PBEM game

[Svar]

Does anyone know how to start a modified scenario as a PBEM game. So far I can't save it as a secure PBEM game even if I change it to Obwir and obwir.md and start it as the 1941 campaign game. As the 1941 campaign game it will start as a PBEM game asking for the player 1 password but you can't save it as a PBEM game, it just keeps playing as a 2 human game.

Svar

[RickyB]

Originally posted by Svar:
Does anyone know how to start a modified scenario as a PBEM game. So far I can't save it as a secure PBEM game even if I change it to Obwir and obwir.md and start it as the 1941 campaign game. As the 1941 campaign game it will start as a PBEM game asking for the player 1 password but you can't save it as a PBEM game, it just keeps playing as a 2 human game.

Svar

After playing with Svar's scenario, here is how to do it for anyone interested. Back up whatever regular scenario you want to replace as you must overwrite a regular one, unless you never want to have it back. Open editwir.exe and Load the scenario file you have created. Then simply Save the open file as the regular scenario that you want to use - obwir is the 1941 campaign for example and most of the others are easy to figure out, except the 1942 ones, which are named quite oddly. By the way, the scenarios are all ob... (4-5 characters total) with no extension, and each has a matching ob...md file, for map display or something similar, which will not get replaced by your scenario .md file, I believe, so you would need to rename that by hand if the map starts out differently than the regular scenario being replaced.

There must be a filename embedded in each scenario file which for some reason is used by the secure PBEM feature. Just renaming the scenario file doesn't replace this but the editwir renaming does, I guess.

[Svar]

Originally posted by RickyB:

After playing with Svar's scenario, here is how to do it for anyone interested. Back up whatever regular scenario you want to replace as you must overwrite a regular one, unless you never want to have it back. Open editwir.exe and Load the scenario file you have created. Then simply Save the open file as the regular scenario that you want to use - obwir is the 1941 campaign for example and most of the others are easy to figure out, except the 1942 ones, which are named quite oddly. By the way, the scenarios are all ob... (4-5 characters total) with no extension, and each has a matching ob...md file, for map display or something similar, which will not get replaced by your scenario .md file, I believe, so you would need to rename that by hand if the map starts out differently than the regular scenario being replaced.

There must be a filename embedded in each scenario file which for some reason is used by the secure PBEM feature. Just renaming the scenario file doesn't replace this but the editwir renaming does, I guess.[/B]

Thanks Rick. That did the trick.

Svar

[Svar]

Originally posted by RickyB:

After playing with Svar's scenario, here is how to do it for anyone interested. Back up whatever regular scenario you want to replace as you must overwrite a regular one, unless you never want to have it back. Open editwir.exe and Load the scenario file you have created. Then simply Save the open file as the regular scenario that you want to use - obwir is the 1941 campaign for example and most of the others are easy to figure out, except the 1942 ones, which are named quite oddly. By the way, the scenarios are all ob... (4-5 characters total) with no extension, and each has a matching ob...md file, for map display or something similar, which will not get replaced by your scenario .md file, I believe, so you would need to rename that by hand if the map starts out differently than the regular scenario being replaced.

There must be a filename embedded in each scenario file which for some reason is used by the secure PBEM feature. Just renaming the scenario file doesn't replace this but the editwir renaming does, I guess.

Rick,

I'm just bumping this thread up because I see this subject being discussed again.

Svar