Between the Storms

[John 3rd]

Working my way down the list of 'to do's' with the Treaty Mod. Have 22 items needing addressing and am over halfway there. Solid progress.

Have created the Scouting Force and placed it between the Pensacola TF and the Chester TF. This is a FORMIDABLE TF: 2 BC, 2 CA, 2 CLV, and 6 DD. How 'bout that for something EXTRA!

[John 3rd]

In this Mod Arc, it appears that Cebu will become a subsidiary of Manila for the Asiatic Fleet. We've moved and AS, AV, and 6 SS there for the Opening of the War. Additionally a small Base Force, some supply, and fuel are now there as well.

[btd64]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I've downloaded the Mod Files from Juan for both the Treaty as well as RA. Michael will continue for a day or two to work RA while I tidy up Treaty.

Lew and I are going to start a Treaty Mod Campaign. Are there others who want to do some playtesting or browse through it some more?

Figure that I need about 1-2 hours of time to get everything finished on the Treaty Mod and it will be good to run. Need to put together a scenario description, do some placement changes--as we talked about on the previous page of this thread, and switch Vindictive over to the Kiwis. Air Art will be a mess for Melbourne and Vindictive but it will have to do for the moment.

Will Post when files are ready.

Any takers?

John, I have played the beginning of 45 a few times with the art and chems map. All looks good. Waiting for the next one.... PM me the files. I have time tomorrow. GP

[oldman45]

John, this mod does not use the extended map does it?

[btd64]

oldman45, I'm sure john will answer, but yes it uses the extended map. GP

[John 3rd]

Treaty Mod is complete. I spent time yesterday morning and last night going through and making little tweaks and catching small errors. Am going to ZIP all the files together and send them to our playtesters/checkers. Give this a few days then we'll shift over to RA 7.0.

[John 3rd]

Have sent the Mod to playtesters so they can do a serious look-through. Will plan to release this by Friday.

[John 3rd]

Changes made the last two days:

1. Transferred Vindictive to New Zealand and named her the HMNZS Wellington. Air Group now upgrades along the same lines as the Aussie Melbourne.
2. Moved the two Hong Kong DDs to Singers.
3. Cebu gains the USS Ely (sister of Langley) to go with an AS and 6 SS. Added supply and fuel to the base as well as an older squadron of Fighters.
4. FIXED Casablanca and Bogue Class CVE AA Issues.
5. Created the Scouting Fleet TF of BCs Ranger and Constellation, 2 CA, CLV's Charlotte and Jacksonville, and 6 DDs.
6. Moved CL Naka and DDs from Formosa to Cam Rahn Bay to provide escorts for Japanese CAVs and new CAs.
7. Changed Constitution Class 16" guns to MK 3 version as per Juan and JWE's specs.
8. Pulled BB Pennsylvania and have her arriving--damaged--on Dec 8th.
9. Damaged ships historically under repair: At PH--Cassin, Downes, and Shaw. At Manila--SS Seadragon and Sealion.
10. Concentrated the Japanese BBs at Hiroshima along with Hosho and Ibuki (sister to Hosho).
11. Disbanded TF 123/124 at Home Islands so the 56th and 2nd ID can be reloaded correctly.
12. Removed USS Mississippi from game to rflect Treaty Changes allowing the two BCs to added to US OOB.
13. Made sure the Lex and Ent have a pair of CAs for escorts.
14. Saratoga has an actual Battle Group on the West Coast to protect it when the CV sails.

[John 3rd]

Just took a serious look at RA6.7 with JWE’s work and he did a FANTASTIC job! I’ve got some work to do on the Japanese Naval LCUs but that appears to be it. Think a few hours of work should get RA 7.0 completed. Integrating 7.0 and Treaty into BTS should not be too rough. Think this can safely be accomplished in good time.

Juan: I am not touching Treaty until you get your work done. Keep us informed and then I’ll send RA over to you to import the Off-Base stuff. Should be the only time you’ll have to do that because I shall copy RA 7.0 into a new folder to create Between the Storms.

Thanks for all the work team.

John

[John 3rd]

GOOD news. I had some time to work tonight and got all of RA taken care of. Treaty is FINISHED and RA is now FINISHED. Have got to shift it so the art, scenario description, and other minor items are handled but RA 7.0 will be available in days.

This means that BTS shall be ready, perhaps, a day or two after that.

How about that??!!

[oldman45]

Thanks to all of you for your service to this community!!

[btd64]

I have run the RA 7.0 mod out to turn 12/15/41 with no issues other than a couple of things that I have personally never come across. 1. 2 successful midget sub attacks on turn 1( will not say were[:D]) and 2. Very light air attack on a TF that normally gets hammered( again you have to guess) Of course we all know it is just a die roll. The allied airframe purchase system works very well. Thank you juan for your work. If you do have a little trouble managing air groups, this will help you. But when you figure the PP cost, use the value in the CO's line. Will explain this with a picture later. Anyway John3rd will post when complete. Happy hunting.
GP

[DOCUP]

I don't think the air replacement boxes are suppose to look like this. What did I do wrong?

[EHansen]

From JuanG's thread, that is exactly how they are supposed to look.

[John 3rd]

PERFECT!

We need Juan to create a short cheat sheet on how to use his system and then attach it to the Mod pages on the RA website.

[JuanG]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

PERFECT!

We need Juan to create a short cheat sheet on how to use his system and then attach it to the Mod pages on the RA website.

Hey,

Will put together a short explanation with imagery for you and email it. And preference as to format? PDF perhaps?

[btd64]

Juan, pdf would be best. Everyone should be able to read it. Send it to me and i'll take a look after your done, if you like...GP

[John 3rd]

Concur about pdf. Think it will help players a lot.

DOCUP found some minor issues within RA that I need to examine and fix. Nothing too bad just some little stuff.

The family is taking a wee bit of R&R by going up in the mountains Wed--Fri. We'll do that and then I have Saturday OFF with wife and kids going to a B-Day party. If I can have 3-5 hours home alone I can get all the major work finished. Lots of details to do but if the major work is completed then we can get these babies out and running while we track down the little stuff.

[btd64]

John, Enjoy the R&R.[>:] GP

[John 3rd]

RA 7.0 is FINISHED! Got the work done tonight. Looks A OK. Will Post the new files to the website tomorrow.