Industrial Unit Graphics

[Boco]

Try wiping out the Sanussis and the Fur in El Aurens in 3 months. Then capture Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria in 3-4. For WWI you need to pick the right campaigns: e.g. 1914 in the West or East, Caporetto, 1918 Kaiserschlacht, Aug-Nov 1918, Dunsterforce and the Army of Islam, etc.

Overall, you're right. An accurate strategic simulation of WWI would involve economic micromanagement to generate just one more unit to make the difference in a campaign of attrition. The challenge would be to make it more fun than going for a record high score in vanilla Civ2.

[McMonkey]

I quite agree. I think WWI scenarios can be done for specific campaigns as El Aurens shows.

I had a Western Front scenario in mind. I probably still have the map with trench systems on my harddrive somewhere. In the end I decided it was way too complex for me to pull off.

I guess its the almost static nature of trench warfare that would be the stumbling block for a western front campaign scenario and a more general European game would not be able to represent the western front adequately.

Who knows, maybe one day someone will find the time and inspiration to pull it off. Sorry for the thread jack!

[curtsibling]

The secret of a good WW1 scen that represents the battles of Trench Warfare is to be honest about capabilities.

The massive and hard to crack defences, and hurling large amounts of cheap troops at them is the way to go.

Some weapons flung in that can break the deadlock for a short time too - Gas, tanks, and special stormtroops.

Of course, trying to make aircraft behave might be difficult. Though giving them high attack vs ground troops could work.

[McMonkey]

A two player PBEM of the western front may be doable but I would imagine that getting the AI to play ball, stay in its trenches, launch counterattacks and the like would be very difficult to achieve. If I can find the map I made I will start a new thread so we can discuss this further. This does not mean that I am planning to start such a project. It would just be interesting to discuss!

EDIT: Sadly I have just checked my external harddrive and the file is not there. Lost forever perhaps. At one time I also started planning a Cambrai scenario but that never got beyond the notepad.

[GhostOfDisco]

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, some Mexican soldiers from that country's war with Napoleon! (The Third, that is.)

Infantry taken from Manet's depiction of Maximilian's execution, and cavalry guy from a painting of the Battle of Puebla.

The preview:

[GhostOfDisco]

And the bmp:

[GhostOfDisco]

Watching "Fort Apache" the other day, I was inspired to make some late 19th-century US cavalry units.

The preview:

[GhostOfDisco]

And the bmp!

[GhostOfDisco]

Surfing the net, I read some stuff on the War of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Argentina and some other country vs. Parguay) and decdied to make some Brazilian troops, both line infantry and "Voluntaros pro Patria" (sp).

The preview:

[GhostOfDisco]

And the BMP:

[curtsibling]

Great stuff as ever, Ghost!

[curtsibling]

Originally posted by fairline
In-game bmp file for the above:

So when do we get the WW1 Central Powers aircraft?

It might entice me to do a ToT Kaiser!

[fairline]

Hey, Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney didn't invent colonial land-grabs; Queen Vic got there first (2 failed Afghan wars and 'peace-keeping' in Persia/Iraq anyone? Or 2 expeditions against religious fanatics in the Sudan...)

This is a compilation of Queen Vic's finest stiff-upper-lipped types made for PeG-ACW and some ToT scenarios like riverwar and BMB:

[fairline]

Here's the above in ToT-friendly bmp format:

[curtsibling]

Very beautiful as ever!
Some truly wonderful works of art here...

I feel a redux of 1870 coming on!

Makes me want to don a pith helmet and go tyrannize the Congo!