Home Before the Leaves Fall (Hellen [Entente] v Elmer [Germans])

[FelixHu]

can't get crash when i only did attacks.

[Hellen_slith]

I think this scene has some British navy in it? I wonder if the crash is related
to a naval "bug" we've seen in Next War beta, where that one would crash.

Anyway, I will look for the move, if I don't see it in next few days,
I will email the slitherine people and I think they can restore a save point.

[FelixHu]

Tried today,still facing crashes.After moved almost half units,i moved HQ 4eme DI to east Brussels 52,9,then crashed.But then i open the game again and moving the same HQ to the same position,nothing happened.Sorry

[Hellen_slith]

Mr. Felix, sorry to hear the problems w/ the scene,
I guess we need to just 86 this one. Wish we could figure out what the crash is.

Ok, well, we will start another, maybe? Have you a preference for our next go?
Have a great day!

[FelixHu]

How about Mars

[larryfulkerson]

hey you guys: I'm one of the beta testers so I see crashes every day from one version of the game engine or another. I've discovered that I can save my game in PBEM++ by going to the menu and choosing "close" and then a popup menu appears and I choose "save and close" and the game engine will write the game to disk as it currently is and then closes the game. When you choose that game again from the online menu the game will open where it was last time you saved it. So if it crashes you just load your latest save and continue. I use it all the time. I usually save every five minutes or so. Yes, sometimes it crashes that often. Once Ralph fixes it some other bug shows up instead. It's progress of a kind.

[FelixHu]

thanks i'll try.

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

hey you guys: I'm one of the beta testers so I see crashes every day from one version of the game engine or another. I've discovered that I can save my game in PBEM++ by going to the menu and choosing "close" and then a popup menu appears and I choose "save and close" and the game engine will write the game to disk as it currently is and then closes the game. When you choose that game again from the online menu the game will open where it was last time you saved it. So if it crashes you just load your latest save and continue. I use it all the time. I usually save every five minutes or so. Yes, sometimes it crashes that often. Once Ralph fixes it some other bug shows up instead. It's progress of a kind.

Thanks, Larry!

Well, I think we are at a sticky point in our HBtLF scene,
I leave it to Mr. Felix to decide if we want to 86, or continue?

I think I can persuade the Slither Lizard People to restore once more,
not sure which point they might grab,
but it is worth a shot, if you want.

If not, that's cool, we'll look at Mars. I tried to start that one against PO,
but man...that is complex scene.

Well, let me know!

[FelixHu]

i'll play today,with saves

[Hellen_slith]

All righty, I will keep an eye out!

[FelixHu]

Sorry, i want to abandon.
I was planning to save before the first attack,cause the past few times crashes happened while attacking or movements after first round.So i finished the entire frontline.Transferred reserves to front,and when loading train,crash happened.
Sadly crash always happened while almost finish.
My Bad,i should 5min per save and quit and rejoin.But i have no willing to repeat same round again.

[Hellen_slith]

No problem! I understand ... Well, we got to where about I was against the PO, I've still got that sav file, so I will continue back with the PO. PS: I will try to make mine crash, do you recall any specifics about any units that you might have moved or attacked w/ right before the crash? Esp., did you maybe click on a British naval unit maybe? I know in NWExpB, and maybe even in NW, that it sometime did not like clicking on a naval unit and then scrolling the map ... was just wondering, maybe HBtLF is catching that bug, too. Okay, well, let me know!

[FelixHu]

I have no navy,but once it happened when scrolling.
Not specific,different units while attacking,firing artillery,loading train and scrolling.

[Hellen_slith]

ORIGINAL: FelixHu

I have no navy,but once it happened when scrolling.
Not specific,different units while attacking,firing artillery,loading train and scrolling.

Thank you Sir, the "scrolling" seems to be a trigger .... this may be related to a Mem Leak that I think was ident some months ago. It is a very troublesome issue it seems, with some very few scenes. Hard to recreate, thus hard to quash.

Not sure. I will try to re-create and send crash log to Mr. Ralph .... THANK YOU!!

[Hellen_slith]

@Entente 22 (August 23, 1914)

Back now to playing against Elmer (he has Germans)
resuming that save (M. Felix had some crashes so we abandoned that go)

it has been a month or so since I've looked at this one,
and I did only minimal attack / move on my 21.
There are ~29 moves remaining, and I want now to observe Elmer,
to see how he will do against my minimalist approach

will reinfaorce Brussels,
continue getting Brits toward the line

I think this scene would benefit from further update in TOAWIV?
but I ma not familiar w/ editor, will observe and maybe it will give me ideas
at least on maybe improve Elmer's "tracks"

[Hellen_slith]

Somewhere in a forest in France, a bedraggled soldier drags himself up out of a long-forgotten trench where poppies grow.

And so, I revisit this fantastic scenario (no matter WHAT he says about his creation), and today decided to take this one to the EOS. It is a great scene. The briefing can be reached via post #1 in this thread.

The map as I resume the game is below. It is Entente move 32 Sept. 2, 1914 and I am aiming to finish this great scene today while Mr. David works on slaughtering the Soviets

[Hellen_slith]

One doesn't see this mode shown much but I like to look at
I wonder how the base of the men is colored? Can one choose that color?
Is it perhaps governed by the chit background color?
General Cross, which section of the manual do I need to read to find out about that?

Well, you can see below the Brit 1 Cav etc. getting a bit hemmed by them Boche

[Hellen_slith]

after German turn 33

Vosges to the Argonne shown below. It took Elmer about 5 minutes to do his move

18 moves to go, says engine :)Hi Larry

[Hellen_slith]

Entente turn 34

The Boche are only about 40km away from Paris.

[Hellen_slith]

Gay Paree and the Boche

Brits are the gold color bases