DaBigBabes Beta errata

[JWE]

Ok, so …

8th Field Rgt: after break-up of 70th Div, assigned to 25th Indian Div in ’43 as a Jungle Field Rgt.
51st Field Rgt: after break-up of 70th Div, assigned (as infantry) to 16 Brigade – 3rd Special Force Div in ’43, becoming 51 Column, 16 LRP Brigade on 10/43.
60th Field Rgt: after break-up of 70th Div, assigned (as infantry) to 23 Brigade – 3rd Special Force Div in ’43, becoming 60 and 68 Columns, 23 LRP Brigade on 10/43.
45th Recce Rgt: after break-up of 70th Div, assigned (as infantry) to 16 Brigade – 3rd Special Force Div in ’43, becoming 45 and 54 Columns, 16 LRP Brigade on 10/43.

Prior to the creation of Wingate’s private army, 70th Div was a cohesive, experienced unit, so why not keep it that way till the break-up date. The TO&E of the LRP units (columns) was considerably different from a nominal infantry Regt (Bn), so it makes little sense to have three regular Brit brigades just change their name to Chindits.

Chindits didn’t have any of the cool “stuff” that a regular division had, so … ok, let 70th withdraw, dump all its “stuff” into the pool, and a month later … hey, presto – 3 LRP brigades with the right stuff.

Yea, nay, maybe ??

[witpqs]

Sounds good from here...

[Weidi72]

If the separate units will get a delay, so they won't come as reinforcement, why not.

[JWE]

ORIGINAL: Weidi72
If the separate units will get a delay, so they won't come as reinforcement, why not.

Why not, indeed. So we'll keep 70th Div as a Div and let it fight as a Div till its withdrawal date. We'll kill 45th Recce as a separate unit because it became part of 16 LRP. We'll also kill 8th Field Rgt as a separate unit because God spoke from the high place (actually, Nigel Evans spoke in more mundane terms) and said they kept short 25#'s and went to 25th Div. And after 70th Div gets broken up (and is removed from the game), the remaining constuitent units appear as 14, 16, 23 LRP brigades with their particular TO&E.

Gosh, how many more of these things are there? Please ... I don't really want to know.

[Andy Mac]

The main reason we did it the way we did it in stock was to avoid having a full Brit Div set of devices dumped into the pools

[Andy Mac]

Other one to watch is 3rd NZ Div HQ thats also a weird one from stoick

[oldman45]

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

The main reason we did it the way we did it in stock was to avoid having a full Brit Div set of devices dumped into the pools

Would it really effect things considering the combat losses it would incur? I remember what you wrote about the finite replacements and if the 70th is in heavy combat it could be a problem down the road. Am I out to lunch with that theory?

[JWE]

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac
Other one to watch is 3rd NZ Div HQ thats also a weird one from stoick

Ok. Got rid of 3rd NZ Div (yeah, that was weird). To give Barrowclough something to do, added North, Central, South Mil Districts as static Corps HQs (just in case Japanese player gets frisky).

Tightened up a few more things. Moved stuff to keep the 4932 – 4946 slots empty. Couldn’t find enough of the right kind of stuff without an AI attribution to move there, so went for “ugly but no problem” as opposed to “fancy but maybe not”.

Waiting on a couple things from the Air people, and a final update should be out in a couple days. There should have no impact on any ongoing games; just tweaks, and twonks, and dinks here and there for smoothness and simplicity.

Have lots of input that suggests everything is working as expected, so this last cleanup should be the end of the Project, insofar as a release version. Boy, oh boy, what a journey – woof !!

[Alfred]

JWE,

I have always been fascinated as to how scenario slot numbers are allocated to mods. Who (obviously before the scenario number was publicly announced) determined the scenario number for DaBabes? How did you prevent any other modder from using the same numbers?

Alfred

[JWE]

ORIGINAL: Alfred
JWE,

I have always been fascinated as to how scenario slot numbers are allocated to mods. Who (obviously before the scenario number was publicly announced) determined the scenario number for DaBabes? How did you prevent any other modder from using the same numbers?

Alfred

They really aren't allocated, they are grabbed. The engine allocates scen slots 001 to 025 as 'official', non-editable, slots and this is reflected in the editor (there is a CRC check sum in the engine to make sure). Being developers, we got lucky and got on the pony early. Our peers respect out slot selection, and we respect theirs. But anybody who wants to can do whatever they want between 026 and whatever.

[oldman45]

Cosmetic bug:

ComAirNoPac arrives in PH
ComAirSoPac arrives in Anchorage

Might want switch those around.

[rockmedic109]

Well, I guess the transports I send to take ComAirNoPac to Anchorage can pick up ComAirSoPac and take them to Noumea.  Provided the SoPacers don't freeze to death in their Uniform, Lighweight, Tropical.

[Weidi72]

Unit 3745 11th BG/431st BG should be 11th BG/431st BS

[oldman45]

3 of my units are not showing the 81mm mortars; 5084, 8002, 5175. I looked in the editor and see no problems ie they are all pointing to device 1155 but on the unit screen in game there is a blank with just the number of mortars showing. The unit need for supplies is lower on the units not showing the mortars.

Has anybody else noticed this?

[Sardaukar]

I am in late 8/42 and Perth is requesting 85 000 fuel...I don't understand why it'd be doing that.

[Don Bowen]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

I am in late 8/42 and Perth is requesting 85 000 fuel...I don't understand why it'd be doing that.

What TFs do you have home ported there?

[Sardaukar]

Right now there are only 2 SC TFs, consisting of 3DDs and 2 DDs with Perth as Home base. But there is quite a lot of shipping disbanded. Might that be the reason? On the other hand, they have been there from fall of DEI and I haven't noticed this before.

[Don Bowen]

Yeah, ships in port are a major portion of fuel requirement.

[Sardaukar]

Yea, that was it, problem solved. [;)]

[witpqs]

I am in a PBM stock scenario 1, and I've noticed an issue that is also present in "DaBigBabes Full Campaign" (I checked in the editor and saw that it is present).

The issue is this: All the various nationalities have their infantry squads updated periodically. To facilitate managing this the have been given names like "Aus Inf 42", "USA Inf 43", etc. All except the Chinese. Device numbers 1301, 1302, and 1303 are all identically named "Chinese Rifle Squad". This makes it almost impossible to see which LCU's have upgraded versus which ones haven't.

They should be named by the year of availability, as:

device 1301 = "Chinese Rifle Squad 41"
device 1302 = "Chinese Rifle Squad 43"
device 1303 = "Chinese Rifle Squad 45"

While not a Babes errata per se, AFAIK the change would be easy and it sure would help managing an important sector of the war. Please consider it.
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