A Playtest Too Far

[fairline]

B: Here's the Sherman Crab. I've had to save as a gif to display here but it can be repasted back into a bmp and no colours have been lost.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by Mercator
I can't be of much help here, except for Dutch spell checking purposes (though I can't be 100% sure the names were the same back during WWII. I'm using an '88 atlas).

s'Hertogenbosch should really be spelled 's-Hertogenbosch, but that's just one character too long. I guess you could either leave out the hyphen or the apostrophe. Or you could use Den Bosch instead. 's-Hertogenbosch is the official name, but it's usually called Den Bosch.

Nijmegan must be Nijmegen
Vegel should be Veghel
Zon should be Son
I think you can spell St Oedenrode in full as Sint Oedenrode.
I think Sommern must be Someren, but it's misplaced quite a bit.

I can scan in the two maps from my atlas, if you want. It's not the most detailed though, some of the villages on your map aren't even shown on it.

Thanks, Merc, I'll make those changes.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by fairline
B: Here's the Sherman Crab. I've had to save as a gif to display here but it can be repasted back into a bmp and no colours have been lost.

Thanks, Fairline. What's the badge? Should it be on the other engineering unit?

[fairline]

It's the 79th Armoured Div (Hobart's 'Funnies') who operated all the wierd and wonderful tank conversions like the flail, crocodile and AVRE. They didn't operate as a single division, but were farmed out to whichever unit needed them. Leave the XXX Corps sign on the Engineer unit.

[typhoon]

Wow...

Once again fairline, your skills leave me speechless... that must be the most realistic looking Sherman, made for Civ2, ever.

If the flails come off, this will be the one M4 to rule them all

[fairline]

Thanks Typhoon. Buy yourself ToT, sign up for Tech's playtest and you'll be able to see the vanilla Sherman and a Sherman Firefly as well. There's also a Daimler armoured car, new Achilles, M5 halftrack, 6-pdr, 17-pdr, 25-pdr, Pack 75mm, a new Typhoon and reworks of the Sexton and various new German grapics as well. They are all ToT-optimised and will not look as good with civ2 palette.

I'm not posting them 'til Tech releases this though

[curtsibling]

ToT and fairline does indeed rule them all!

[fairline]

Stop it Curt

Here's the Bofors 40mm SP:

[N35t0r]

Originally posted by fairline
B: Here's the Sherman Crab. I've had to save as a gif to display here but it can be repasted back into a bmp and no colours have been lost.

Just one nitpick:

AFAIK, minesweeping tanks turned the turret the other way round when minesweeping, in order to avoid possible damage to the gun...

[curtsibling]

I think I can overlook that little detail!

[Arthedain]

Originally posted by curtsibling
ToT and fairline does indeed rule them all!

Indeed, I must try this scenario when it's released..

[N35t0r]

Originally posted by curtsibling
I think I can overlook that little detail!

It's just that with all the overwhelming knowledge about mostly everything you guys here have, (_especially_ about WW2 stuff) I just couldn't let one by

[fairline]

You're right about the flail and I deserved it

The Crab was a simple conversion of a Sherman I'd already drawn, and I didn't want to change it too much.

Sometimes it's difficult possessing overwhelming knowledge

[fairline]

Tech: I've sorted my problem with zip attachments and Outlook Express. Had a quick couple of turns with version 3 and I like the changes. One issue, however: every town taken so far has caused a canal bridge blowing event. I thought you were going for 50% chance of this?

[typhoon]

I do have TOT, but for some reason there's a problem with the civ2.exe and its keeps crashing

Unless I can find a new civ2.exe i can't play this wonderful scenario