The Struggle for Europe 1.2

[Marko]

TSFE version 1.2 is nearing completion

This is a major rework of events and rules. Hopefully it answers to all players comments what I have got after the release of original version.
The scenario update will be released in 8 packages. This way the people who want for example only to play as Soviets, don't need to download all the scenario.

There are hundreds of bigger and smaller changes compared to versions 1.0 and 1.1. I don't list them all here, only a few for each package.

General changes:

* Infantry units are now much stronger
* Many other tweaks in units values for better balance or historical accuracy (sometimes irritatingly hard choice..)
* In events now AI don't get any new unit because you killed some of his units. All these unitkilled - createunit "trees" are gone (except in first stages of Barbarossa).


PART I - Axis

Axis medium level scenario, starting from May 1940.
* Strenghth of French army is more like it was in 1940. Still Germany has the first turn right..
* Axis science rate is faster.
* German tanks 1943-45 are now relativly stronger than they were in version 1.0

PART II - Axis levels

Axis easy and hard levels, starting from May 1940.

PART III - Soviets

Soviet medium level scenario, starting from May 1940.
* More events for Soviets in 1940.
* Soviet science rate is faster.
* Much more easier to stop the German advance than in original version.

PART IV - Soviet levels

Soviet easy and hard levels, starting from May 1940.

PART V - Allies

Allies medium level scenario, starting from May 1940.
* No premade Sealion operation for Axis
* Battle for Atlantic is more crucial (in version 1.0 it was important only after December 1941, when U.S. joined with war and transports full of tanks and infantry started crossing the ocean).
* More events, like rebellion in Iraq in Spring 1941.

PART VI - Allies levels

Allies easy and hard levels, starting from May 1940.

PART VII - Multiplayer and small nations

Scenarios for playing as any of small nation in all difficulty levels (starting from May 1940).
Multiplayer scenarios - team play against computer Axis and total multiplayer.
* Diplomacy is allowed for all nations in multiplayer and there are no events-forced war anymore.

PART VIII - Later scenarios

Scenarios starting from July 1940, June 1941, November 1941, July 1942, November 1942, July 1943, June 1944, December 1944 and May 1945.
* Everything is worked over to achieve a better balance.

All these packages are now more or less ready and will go one after another to playtesting.

About future plans and for people who are waiting Fall Weiss:

I haven't dropped any plans. In spring I decided that Fall Weiss will be Civ 3 scenario because it seemed pointless to design a Civ 2 scenario when supposedly superior Civ 3 is so close. I concentrated to TSFE V1.2 and postponed anything else until Civ 3 is out.
So, Fall Weiss will come as Civ2 MGE scenario after the release of TSFE 1.2. Also TSFE upgrade for ToT is planned.

[Leonidas]

Marko - I'll be looking forward to this scenario

With regard to Civ 3 - as you know the editor is broken in that game and scenarios cannot now be built with it. It does not even have an events editor, so designing a scenario like this in Civ 3 is going to take some time and it depends on what Firaxis will do for the Mod community.

Cheers

[Shaka Naldur]

those are great news,

I really enjoyed playing TSFE
I was surprised about the huge amount of time that you had dedicated to it, and now you are releasing and update, well done

[Cal]

Hey, that's great.

But... what happened to your scenario on the invasion of Poland by Germany?

edit:
note to self: read entire thread closely before typing out a reply.

[Case]

I'm looking forward to this (I can't get enough WW2 scenarios)

Just an aside: I bought the book 'The Strugle for Europe' by Aussie journalist Chester Wilmont* a couple of weeks ago. Was this one of your sources for the scenario?

*Wilmont worked as a correspondent with the BBC during the war [which included him parachuting into Normandy with the first wave of the British 6th Airborne on D-Day], and the book is very highly regarded

[Marko]

Yes, name for the scenario came from this book. I liked it very much.