Small Europe Scenario

[doomtrader]

Sad but true.
No time and no place, as the kids/cats/dogs are able to destroy even the largest armies within a blink of an eye.

[Hairog]

ORIGINAL: doomtrader

Hi everybody,

Soon after releasing official 1.01 patch, I'm planning to make some extensive test for this scenario.
I'm looking for couple of people who would be willing to play it to the death
Scenario is only 70 turns long, so you will be able to finish it in single player in one evening and PBEM probably within a week if you will be in the same (or similar) time zone.

I would like you to play it as the majors and in the offhand mode (as Switzerland for example), to observe how the AI is doing.
Scenario is more historical than the original campaign, but we would aim it to be balanced especially for PBEM.

If you are interested in early play and testing this, please post in here.

I'm in.

[bcgames]

ORIGINAL: doomtrader

I'm looking for couple of people who would be willing to play it to the death
Scenario is only 70 turns long, so you will be able to finish it in single player in one evening...

If you are interested in early play and testing this, please post in here.

I'd be interested in helping with single player.

[doomtrader]

Below a series of screenshots from my German gameplay.
I'm really having fun.

Africa:

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Ukraine:

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Central Front:

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Finland:

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General View:

[bcgames]

Wow! Well done. I am enjoying the play of this game in its current state but I think this scenario may be the optimal application for the game engine. I'm very interested to see how this progresses. It reminds me of an old SPI title...World War II? I can't recall now but I played the heck out of it way back when. Nice.

[mbar]

Nice map. It has a similar look as the Commander Europe at War small map.

Looks real good! Can't wait to try it out!

[doomtrader]

I just finished campaign as Germans (took me something around six-seven hours).

The scenario needs little more adjusting and polishing, however at the current stage can provide quite lot fun. I think that the beta version can be released next week, and the full version just after the release of 1.02 patch.

Here are some screenshots

The remnants of Soviet Union:




North Africa, Italians were doing well until the end of 1942, then the Brits pulled a lot of units and I must intervene, due to the supply problems I have lost two Panzer Armies




Yanks, surprised me with their landing in April 1944 and were doing pretty well until I produced couple of inf corps and armies

[doomtrader]

The scenario looks to be ready for betatesting, so all of you interested in trying that should get the scenario during this week.

[Wolfe1759]

Is this going to be a public beta / members beta release ?

[doomtrader]

It is going to be delivered for volunteers only

[doomtrader]

If any of you would like to try the scenario, just write in this thread, send me a PM or write an email to me.

[Wolfe1759]

Where should we post feedback on the Lightning War beta ?

In this thread, create a new thread in Tech Support or create a new thread in the main ToF forum ?

[doomtrader]

Depends on the issue you would like to post.
However if you would like to keep everything together, the best place might be the AAR section

[Wolfe1759]

Just played a couple of games as Germany for the first few turns through to the fall of Poland so not really AAR worthy.

Noticed that nearly every unit had it's own commander. For Germany - 16 land/air units on the board with 14 commanders between them (87%).

Given the proportions in the Grand Campaign (17 commanders between 106 units = 16%) I think this probably needs to be reduced down to 3. Probably 2 ground and 1 air commander.

The same is the case for all other nations.

[Wolfe1759]

Played through to T11 as USSR - didn't do much with the USSR just wanted to observe the German AI

Observations on the German AI

1. Didn't attack at all with the Tac Bomber unit
2. For the first 4 turns (until fall of Poland) all German air units rebased themselves each turn
3. From then until T11 with attacks happening against the Low Countries and Denmark by ground units all of the air units including the Italian fighter clustered within 1-2 hexes of Berlin with the Tac to the East and therefore again making no ground attacks.
4. German ground units didn't seem to combine to make any multi hex attacks on a target unit.
5. German units did not occupy objective hexes where an enemy unit had been destroyed even though multiple units had AP to reach the hex and no enemy units were nearby - they did however then occupy it in the following turn.

Also noted that the French 5e and 3e Armies abandoned the Majinot Line to fall back on Paris.

[Wolfe1759]

Any developments on the Lightning War beta ?