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those officers are looking great.....

Thank you, but that is just the most obvious change, there are lots more, even some in this screenshot

ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz

A small hint of things to come? Anyone spot any differences?

Quite a few PP's for a starting turn. Also the rate is quite strong. Combat and morale mods for the leaders. Not much else catches my eye in a 30 seconds look.

Mukden and Hokkaido supply centers are marked as "1". So factories and resources can be upgraded.

Thats the one second longer for a look. [8D]

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz
A small hint of things to come? Anyone spot any differences?

Quite a few PP's for a starting turn. Also the rate is quite strong. Combat and morale mods for the leaders. Not much else catches my eye in a 30 seconds look.

Yes, you are right about the PPs and the PP rate

ORIGINAL: RufusTFirefly
Mukden and Hokkaido supply centers are marked as "1". So factories and resources can be upgraded.

Thats the one second longer for a look. [8D]

Sadly no, they are not able to be upgraded. That "1" is also present on the current versions of the game.

Do the Soviets have a bit stronger industry now? Some cities in Urals for example?

ORIGINAL: kombrig
Do the Soviets have a bit stronger industry now? Some cities in Urals for example?

Yes the soviets have a bit stronger industry. It was something Bombur and I felt was needed. Bomburs initial thought was to raise the efficency of soviet industry, but instead I suggested, and it was agreed to upgrade the existing cities to have more industry instead. And no, there are no more new cities in the Urals. And by a bit stronger we are speaking some 20%.

Some countries during the 2nd world war embraced total war from the beginning the Soviet Union Great Britain. They brought Women into the workforce replacing men who were released for frontline fighting. Germany took several years to embrace Total War. Not until Albert Speer was appointed in 1942 did Germany become fully geared for total war and women released into the armaments workforce. So perhaps a card could transfer a nations economy from consumer peace time goods to armaments production. The Soviets were the most enthusiastic total war advocates women not only produced but were used in frontline combat roles. So perhaps levels of total war would be in order.

Yes, that too, could be introduced...

ORIGINAL: ernieschwitz

Yes, that too, could be introduced...

Hopefully at the cost of national morale.

Well I haven´t introduced it yet, so, anything is possible...

I'm hoping that a racheting down of German/Italian production is in the offing.

Also, I'm beginning to notice that manpower is not currently any sort of constraint. I'm thinking they all need to be scaled down.

Yes, i too wanted manpower to be more of a constraint, but Bombur has so far vetoed any changes on it. So that is not really in the cards, yet...

Not sure if moving to Total War would require a hit to national morale. The card I assume would only be played when a nation was at war. The Nations that implemented Total War suffered no morale hit after all the Women were mostly happy to be included were paid a wage and got to support their men at the front. I would think that would be a plus to morale not a minus. Going to Total War during peace time that would be another matter.

Manpower is a problem especially if you increase production. France is the worst which is not historical, France sent men home because they had to many.

The inclusion of a card, to increase production, and probably manpower too, representing the "Total War Effort" is not something I am going to do before I take a long hard look at the games Productivity calculations and the like. Since I plan on having this update out, no later than Monday, there will not be time for that.

Currently, I am writing bios for the officers that are going to be included in the game. More than 175 bios had to be writen, and I need to do about 30 more. Later there might be added more officers, but for now, 175 will do. Now if you think 175 is a large number, try dividing it by 8. Then you have the number of officers each regime will have, aproximately.

Some of course have more than others, as they are big nations, and need to staff more HQs, others simply began with bad officers and got better ones as the war progressed. Both things needed to be taken into account. This is not a small update, it is a pretty large one, in manhours. But you cannot please everyone, in the end, i guess.

ORIGINAL: Twotribes
Manpower is a problem especially if you increase production. France is the worst which is not historical, France sent men home because they had to many.

I will try to see if I can get Frances man power at more historical levels.

When did you remove the ability to build allied units in allied countries? This means I have to either ship by transport a hqs to the foreign Country and build ALL my units in home Country.

I can see how that would be a pain in the as as how do I ship aircraft to England from the US? And no I do not intend to send all American aircraft to a British hqs as that would require I pay the 400 PP for the ability to raise allied forces to 100 percent for Britain