Panzer Corps East - The struggle for Russia "Grand Strategy"

[Chris10]

The OKH announces that complete Army Group North consisting of 18th Army, 3rd Panzer Group and 16th Army has moved into position now...3rd SS Totenkopf and various other OKH Reserves have moved into the rear areas, 207th,281th and 285th Security Divisions have occupied Königsberg and surroundings while other Divisions such as 4th SS Police Division and 86th Infantry Division are still intaking personel in order to reach their nominal strength...
Army Group Center is scheduled to take positions soon...all preparations proceed according the planned time table

[Chris10]

OKH reports that after Army Group North, Army Group Center, consisting of Panzergroup 3, Panzergroup 2, 9th Army and 4th Army, has taken positions too. Reserves consisting of 10th Panzer Division, 2nd SS Das Reich, 2nd Army, 293th, 112th, 106th and 11th Infantry Divisions have moved into the rear areas....

[Josh]

Progressing nicely I see. Well done. I never ever would have thought that someday I would see PG/PC look like TOAW. It's almost as massive as the "Fire in the East" scenario for TOAW. 

[Chris10]

ORIGINAL: Josh

Progressing nicely I see. Well done. I never ever would have thought that someday I would see PG/PC look like TOAW. It's almost as massive as the "Fire in the East" scenario for TOAW. 

to be honest...only since I started placing the units on the map I truly realize how massive this really is...
and I wonder if my projected unit numbers may not be sufficient for the entire map...well..once I placed the entire axis forces,includung minors and air forces, I hope that I have a better overview

[Chris10]

May 1941...Army Group South deployment is in progress...
Panzer Group 1, 6th Army, 17th Army, the Slovakian Corps have moved into positions.
Army reserves consisting of 1st LSSAH, 13th Panzer Division, 97th,100,101th Mountain Divisions and 168th,16th,25th Infantry Divisions
have moved into the rear area...

[Chris10]

Army Group south has completed deployment
3rd and 4 th Romanian Army have moved into positions too
Pending operations are the Hungarian Corps, Romanian, Slovakian, Croatian, Bulgarian and Hungarian stock units, Finnish Army Corps and Finnish stock units...German stock units (AA mostly) , German Baltic Fleet and Air Fleets and Air Forces will be placed last.

Oh..and just on a side note:
95+% of all Infantry and Tank Units have their real names and positions...
Overall about 90% of all ground units have their real names.
Rest 10% is owed to engine limitations to model more sophisticated unit compositions so I had to make use of artistic freedom

[Josh]

"... Oh..and just on a side note:
95+% of all Infantry and Tank Units have their real names and positions...
Overall about 90% of all ground units have their real names...."
 
Splendid, I love it when there is at least some sort of historic resemblance, it adds to the gameflavour IMO.
I reckon this has 10 times as many units as the largest scenario in PC right? 

[Chris10]

Splendid, I love it when there is at least some sort of historic resemblance, it adds to the gameflavour IMO.
I reckon this has 10 times as many units as the largest scenario in PC right? 

hmmm...I would call 90+% a bit more than just "some sort of historic resemblance..." [:D]
If the engine would allow to model more sophisticated unit structures and different equipment per unit the number would be 100% but one has to deal with what he has
I dunno how big the biggest PzC scenario is....I havent played all DLC...I think there have been scenarios with 50-60 units in the late eastern camapign...
The one thing that is for sure though is that the map is 25 if not 30 times bigger than the average vanilla PzC Map...average map in PzC has between 2500-3000 hexes and this map has 77024 hexes...

[drw61]

Amazing! Will definitely give this a try when it comes out.
Daryl

[Georg1]

To Chris10 - very nice work!!
This is a great piece of work. Very appreciate it. I look forward to how the game will look like.
Do you have an approximate estimate of how long it takes a computer game?
O 2 World War I have been interested for many years and greatly appreciate your efforts.
Excuse my English.
Georg

[Chris10]

ORIGINAL: Georg1

To Chris10 - very nice work!!
This is a great piece of work. Very appreciate it. I look forward to how the game will look like.
Do you have an approximate estimate of how long it takes a computer game?
O 2 World War I have been interested for many years and greatly appreciate your efforts.
Excuse my English.
Georg

thnx for signing up just to comment Georg...however
Iam not sure I correctly understand your question...
You can also speak german or spanish...maybe I will understand better then [:)]

[Chris10]

Finally the Karpathian Army Corps and Hungarian 1st, 2nd and 3rd Army have occupied their positions....

[Georg1]

To Chris10 - Hi, Very nice work!
I was wondering, after the player has played one round, how long it will probably take a computer than played his move.
Sorry my English
Georg

[Chris10]

ORIGINAL: Georg1

To Chris10 - Hi, Very nice work!
I was wondering, after the player has played one round, how long it will probably take a computer than played his move.
Sorry my English
Georg

thnx Georg...Honestly I dont know how long the AI turn can be but I do know that Gary Grigsbys War in the East the AI turn can take 5+ minutes...Civilization II, III, IV could take between 5-10 minutes depending on map size and unit number (especially some very big mods like the WWII mod).
Since this is meant to be a bordgame I always wanted to have in the basement Iam not really concerned about how long an AI turn takes...it could be 5,10 or 15 minutes. I will have the same fun anyway...if its 10+ minutes I go do something else...just what I have done when we played the boardgames. When I was a boy we have build a 4 meter boardgame in the basement of my friends dads house...it was a super extended XXL version of the original Axis&Allies Boardgame which was banned in Germany back then cause it used original flags (how ridicolous is that ?...[:D])


Little Update: 17.10.2012


So while tired of fiddeling around with units for the moment I compiled a completely new soundtrack consisting of new main menu music and a new ingame soundtrack of 25 minutes which will give the entire game the neccessary epic framework .

[Chris10]

Finally managed to deploy ALL axis ground units including rear and garrison untis...
479 axis ground units deployed...next is axis air units...then russian ground and russain air
this is exhausting...especially when deploying on correct positions with mostly correct names...once Iam done with
axis air I need a few days off... [:D]

[Josh]

Almost 500 Axis ground units... I stand in awe sir.

[Chris10]

ORIGINAL: Josh

Almost 500 Axis ground units... I stand in awe sir.

thnx...
net fighting force for Barbarossa maybe around 350 aprox.
Rest is garrison,flak,security and home defense (axis minors)...
and its not advisable to rush rear units to the front until you dont want partisans taking over the entire balkan area and then spread uncontrolled all over germany too...[:D]

[Chris10]

PanzerCorps East - The struggle for Russia

1st Ingame Footage
click link to watch YOUTUBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7SHhvTr8oM

Download since YouTube blocks the content in Germany > 15Mb mp4 video

http://www.file-upload.net/download-670 ... e.mp4.html

[OttoVonBlotto]

Astounding work, I will certainly be spending a lot of time with this when it is done. [8D]

[Leatherface59]

___________________________________UPDATE 08.08.2012_____________________________________

In the meantime somewhere in the East...the OKH sends some Wallpapers your way
1027x768, 1280x1024, 1650x1050, 1920x1080
Volume 2 comes with PanzerCorps East release

Download: ...PzC_East_Wallpapers_V1.rar.html

Link is down [:(] Can you upload again please ? [&o]