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Well my scenario is "busted" or "broken". After turn 1, massive amounts of all Axis held and controlled rail lines at the start of the scenario are broken.

So far I can't figure out why this is happening.

Steve took a look but so far we are scratching our heads.

Hopefully I can suss it out, it would be a shame to to be able to play this, as it is now after Poland is conquered running 4-6 HQs around the map and repairing rail lines which should never have been broken is not much fun at all.

Also having only 2 exclusion zones is making life difficult for Sweden, Turkey and Spain. If I had at least 3, I'd be set, actually 4 one for Finland and then to give the Soviets a Theater Option to initiate the Winter War.

ORIGINAL: Zovs

Well my scenario is "busted" or "broken". After turn 1, massive amounts of all Axis held and controlled rail lines at the start of the scenario are broken.

Guerrilla event perhaps?

I do have some guerrilla events but they seem ok as far as when they are invoked, thanks for the tip, I’ll make an edit and remove them and see if that fixes it.

I fixed it!

Man, it was an event that was linked incorrectly!

For the event 89, Event Activated: Guerrillas 2 it was Activated by event 16, but I had to set it to event 90 (16 had Axis entering a hex, which they did not but still it was triggered for some reason) and event 90 is an event which is activated by event 17 and event 90 removed the Jugoslavenska forces.

Man a tongue twister event lister...lol

No more crazy broken rails!

Going to re play test it with Gary!

Happy day!

Glad you figured it out, scenario looks really cool

Do you have any other playtesters?

I have a few, only have feedback from my current friend whom is pbem++ the game with me, it has been rewarding in that we have shaken out the bugs that are now fixed (still need to ride it to 40 and 41 and beyond though).

Unfortunately, I had to add a dreaded house rule since the way TOAW handles air interdiction, the game does not respect units in garrison and units that may be considered 'neutral' at the start of the war, so the house rule is no Air Interdiction until Barbarossa is initiated.

Also, the game currently only handles 2 exclusion zones so I had to 'wire' in a theater option for both sides (Declare war on Turkey and Spain) which revokes the option for the other side and either option (whoever selected it first, i.e. Axis or Allies) then the other side gets control of Turkey and Spain (there is still some issues with this however, with the rail lines getting messed up, so I may need to add a RR repair regiment for Turkey and Spain to cope with that artifice.

Also to simulate the phoney war I have locked down the Western Allies so that France does not invade Germany in 1939, I am still debating the best way to handle this, and may reduce the both the French and CW units TOE (down to 20% for example so they have to "fill up" with replacements. Still on the fence on this one.

Lastly, it's not perfect because TOAW has no political or diplomatic systems. In the original board game both sides had political/diplomatic options such as declaring war and what not and prior to that if a country was neutral you can not enter the hexes with out a declaration of war.

So with all that said, my cup is full, but if your still interested in play testing this monster (but very easy to play) hit me up and I'll update my dropbox with the newer version this week.

Don

Does anyone know where I can get just the maps for this game?

I have all the pieces in trays and instructions. I got this in 1977, while stationed in Germany. Spread it out on plywood tables in an empty bedroom. Didn't want my landlord to see it! He had rebuilt his house after WW2 from "all the rubble that was laying around".

Am now cleaning out the storage unit and found this, but only one map section - Spain and France.

Tried one site to download maps, but not working.

Thanks for any help!

You can download the maps to print out from this website:
https://www.simpubs.org/