All right. We played our first SPWaW match, hotseat as always. Thanks go to Paul who helped us getting the neutral zone bigger in random battles (Editor->Random->Deploy editor->change the lines->go save it in the Map editor->load it as a custom map in Battle->buy and deploy). That Deploy editor sure was hard to find
The match was Germans vs Russians, took about 8-10 hours straight, and yes, was very enjoyable.
Some observations:
Battle conditions said weather was a windstorm, and there was wind howling in the background. Nice
The command system took some learning, but was logical and added to the game.
The new armor penetration system is great! And that penetration table is very useful.
AA guns now do appropriate damage against infantry.
A german tank crew which bailed out was shown as a halftrack.
My SU-122 got his Main gun optics shot to pieces and his fire control dropped to zero. Yet he had good hit percentages and managed to blew up 2 Stug-IVs about 8 hexes away. Maybe I was just lucky
A tank crew blew up a passing Stug with a grenade (that I know was very lucky). Yet the crew had no weapons at all in the unit status screen?
My Sturmovik was shot down by a 88 (they can do both AA and AT now). It was still shown in Bombard screen, had 106 damage. Of course it was greyed out.
My 12.7mm DSK HMG placed on a hill killed 30-40 men. German footmen and tanks just couln't spot it.
Infantry (at least Bazookas) go into Buttoned frequently.
Partisans are cheap and a nasty surprise in the right place. Do they always get to the destination?
Alt-tabbing to Windows and back shows a black screen. Cursor movement reveals the screen under it. Just have to press e to go to ensyclopedia and then the screen returns.
Now to sleep
[This message has been edited by Kharan (edited 05-12-2000).]
