Combined Historical Scenario Status

[Don Bowen]

The scenario is in Alpha and we are working through some problems. A lot of progress has been made.

1. Andrew has resolved some issues with the new bases on his map and Aden/Middle East and the Canal bases now seem to be working fine.

2. Tankerace has finished a major revision to the artwork for US submarines and the sceanrio has been reworked to incorporate them.

3. I've accumulated enough data to add the Japanese Type B Standard Cargo ship to the OOB. Platoonist has provided the artwork. Note the the Type C and Type D are follow-ons to pre-war classes that we already have (Akagane Maru and Amakasu Maru) and the Type E and F are too small to be incorporated (no more ship slots anyway).

4. A new class of China Gunboat has been added and new artwork has be worked up for another. The Wake class previously used the icon from the larger Panay class - it now has it's own icon. The British Insect class has been defined and 5 ships added at Hong Kong and Singapore.

5. TheElf continues to work on aircraft art (please send me an updated copy when you get a chance).

6. Platoonist has gone through the ship art and cleaned up a number of items. A very big effort on his part - we've got a lot of of icons! I am in the process of going through all the accumulated art and building a complete set of "haze gray" art. There will be at least two other versions of ship art - camo by Tankerace and cameo by CobraAus.


As Ron suggests, it's about time for a late-alpha, early beta distribution. And to a larger set of individuals to get more testing from more points of view. Ron is currently looking into distribution.

Matrix update V1.5 is in the works and I am looking forward to comparing/merging it with the Combined Historical Mod. Hopefully there will be few issues. I do think we have both used some "vacant" slots in the device table and will need to resolve that.

[rhohltjr]

[;)] Thanks again Don, and to each and every one of you working so hard to pull this enormous scenario mod together. I am looking forward to it more than the 1.5 patch.[:)]