Red Front 1.5 Final Version here for Civ2

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Arthedain
@ Mercator: Why can't you play RF? There are alternatives to using the batch-file (do it manually).
Sorry for the OT guys!

I don't have MGE... But, wait a minute, Red Front 1.4 is for FW isn't it? So atlon, you can try that, it's available from the Spanish Civ2 Site (http://spanish.apolyton.net).

Originally posted by atlon
Merc I showed two different problems because I tryed to redownload the file and unzip it again to the folder in Civ2 which I named redfront. For some reason two different problems came up.

I dont think I have a .sav file could that be why.

Right... What the hell are you doing?! Can you please explain everything you're doing step-by-step, from the moment you download it, to the moment you try playing it. Oh yes, and what Civ2 version do you have?

You said you had a savegame earlier, and now you say you don't.

[atlon]

Same problem in the Spanish site. Im not sure what version of CIv2 I have all I know is that it made in 1996.
IM going to take u step by step of what Im doing.

First I download the zip file. THen I create a folder In Civ2 named Redfront (My version of Civ2 does not have a scenerio folder). THen I unzip the file into the redfront folder. Then I click on REdfront.bat and press 1 as the intructions said and this comes up.

1. Load Summer 1941
2. Load Winter 1941-42
3. Load Summer 1942
4. Load Winter 1942-43
5. Load Summer 1943
6. Load Winter 1943-44
7. Load Summer 1944
8. Load Winter 1944-45
9. Load Summer 1945
X. Exit without Loading

Enter your selection[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X]?
Summer 1941
1 file(s) copied
1 file(s) copied
1 file(s) copied
1 file(s) copied
1 file(s) copied
1 file(s) copied
1 file(s) copied
Error opening RF.sav for update

Press any key to continue . . .

THe read me file says the game will not funtion unless im using the FW version of CIV2. I think thats why the game doesnt work

[Mercator]

Yep... The absence of the scenario folder is enough of a clue, I guess... You have the original version of civ2.

You're going to have a hard time finding any scenarios at all. There are hardly any scenarios that work with civ2 classic. Those that do certainly aren't anywhere near as impressive as Red Front.

[atlon]

LOL. Gee thanx for rubbing salt on the wounds.....Awwww!!!!

I dont think I would have liked fighting as the Commies anyways being a right winger and all.
I guess the game isnt sold in stores anymore is it?

[Harry Tuttle]

Not usually, but I have heard reports. Go onto Amazon, Yahoo, or Ebay and there should be some CD's for sale. Try and find Fantastic Worlds.

[Boco]

I've been out in the ToT wilderness for so long that I've forgotten. Will MGE work for this as well? It might be easier to find.

[Leonidas]

Here's a site that lists all the available "Civilization" games that are for sale.

These are among some of the best games that have ever been made:

http://alpmedia.com/shopping/bookDetail.php/ek/_BAAAAC_S_V_B_V.html

[Harry Tuttle]

$27.99!!! MGE is a 7 year old game! Cripes.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by atlon
LOL. Gee thanx for rubbing salt on the wounds.....Awwww!!!!

My pleasure! ... I mean, sorry.

Originally posted by Boco
I've been out in the ToT wilderness for so long that I've forgotten. Will MGE work for this as well? It might be easier to find.

Yep, any pre-MGE scenario will also work with MGE.

[Leonidas]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
$27.99!!! MGE is a 7 year old game! Cripes.

Goes to show you what a great game it is.

I couldn't locate a single copy of Civ2 MGE on Ebay. No one wants to part with it - heheh

[Scouse Gits]

Has Agricola's bug-report for RF 1.5 reached these shores?

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118549

[AGRICOLA]

@Scouse Gits
Thank you for your kind concern.

I did post the RF 1.5 Bug Report in the General/Help forum at Apolyton, where it seems to have drawn somewhat less interest than an obituary for a squished cockroach.

I console myself with thoughts like

1. The General/Help forum is as dead as the cockroach.
2. Hardly anybody is playing RF 1.5. Colwyn's posted Nov '42 save is certainly enough to discourage all but the most unbridled optimists.
3. The optimists that tried it got their brains kicked in at Leningrad in the fall of '41 and said to hell with it.


I try to avoid paranoid musings such as

1. The bug report is just one more example of my finding fault with scens and definitely, positively should be ignored.
2. The bug doesn't matter. Everybody who tried RF 1.5 had no difficulty in marching triumphantly into Berlin before June '45 to receive an award of both ears and the tail (Hitler's).


Colwyn seems to be doing whatever it is Aussies do during what passes for winter down under. After 3 weeks, I have still been unable to contact him about the bug and a few more minor points.


It really is a good scen, amazingly close to history in many instances. With the right strategy it is quite winnable by Colwyn's criteria. My game has reached Dec '43. Berlin goes red next month.

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
$27.99!!! MGE is a 7 year old game! Cripes.

Gadzooks!

Lucky I had the foresight to buy two copies of all the CIV2 releases from local Game store!

[AGRICOLA]

Egad! You, Sir, are a spendthrift.

My original CD's for CIVILIZATION (Great), CIV II (Magnificent), SMAC (Lousy) and CIV III (Much worse than lousy) are secure in a vault (back of lower right hand desk drawer). For the last 18 months, a burned copy of CIV II has rarely left my CD drive. When it wears out, I'll burn another one from the original and keep on gamin'.

Thank goodness the CD's are not copy protected so that one can use the copy for playing while keeping the originals in pristine condition.

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA
Egad! You, Sir, are a spendthrift.

My original CD's for CIVILIZATION (Great), CIV II (Magnificent), SMAC (Lousy) and CIV III (Much worse than lousy) are secure in a vault (back of lower right hand desk drawer). For the last 18 months, a burned copy of CIV II has rarely left my CD drive. When it wears out, I'll burn another one from the original and keep on gamin'.

Thank goodness the CD's are not copy protected so that one can use the copy for playing while keeping the originals in pristine condition.

Thats what I did, Im not smart enough to copy the CIV 3 disk though, so Im just careful with my Conquests disk.