US Civil War 2012 - Scenario Idea/Discussion

[curtsibling]

It looks a bit cluttered, due to the large graphic.
A smaller city tile might help, I have one here if you want it.

[GhostOfDisco]

Thanks.

[:) Smiley]

ahh, that last picture brings back fond memories of my home state, New Jersey.

[GhostOfDisco]

A graphics update (units, a "fort" and a combination of CS buildings & roads with a catfish/Eivind terrain tile.

[GhostOfDisco]

Just some update thingys...

• The "forts" will represent urban buildup around several major cities, such as New York, Chicago and the like. This is to make it harder for the Union to take these cities (playing the scenario a bit, it seems that Chicago falls way too early.)
• There will be no trade in the scenario; I've finally converted the last "free" unit slot, that of the Freight, into a game one - the Mercenary (with a graphic taken from "First Strike"). You'll see him guarding some of the Commonwealth's cities at first.
• I've put some Neutral cities in the Pacific, and placed Commonwealth units in them (so CNA forces can be in there. Why? Well, I mentioned (or at least insinuated, perhaps) that China supports the CNA for its own geopolitical ends and/or the right's antagonistic stance toward the PRC, rather than any sympathy for the CNA's cause. So, when the Chinese lose some important Pacific ports (such as, say San Diego or San Francisco) to the Union, they'll send a sea/land task force to take it back. Given that land units will only spawn on land, and, a civ can move into another city (without taking it) if it has a unit in there, well... (Will the Commonwealth units spawn in the Neutral cities? I hope so.)

[GhostOfDisco]

Sorry to double post, but...

Having some computer problems recently, the possiblity came into my mind that I might have to get another computer or something, or repair my current one, and my scenario might get lost. Not wanting all that work to go to waste, I decided to post the unfinished alpha (if it can even be called that) online, lest all my work be in vain.

Link here

Now, keep in mind that the is very much a work in progress - the events aren't finished, Mexico's cities don't have the right populations and the tech tree is anything but done, but you can still do a decent USA/CNA war (I hope) and the units are still there, sorta.

Though the de Gaulle class should be just a "Carrier" as the graphic, it seems to me, could represent both the upcoming British/French carrier project as well as some proposed next-generation US carriers (and, by extension, CNA carriers.)

Feedback and constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated.

[GhostOfDisco]

Has anyone succesfully downloaded it and unzipped it? Becuase I tried to unzip it on my Mac side of my Mac and it said it couldn't.

Maybe I'll try from the PC side or something. I dunno. Hope someone's playing it!

[McMonkey]

There is a problem. I dl it and got the following error message:

[McMonkey]

I'm no expert but I think the problem is with the way it displayed on the SL after uploading. Copy the [[Image:blablabla.zip|thumb|Describe]] text and post it on another page (in edit mode) as[[Media:BlaBla.zip]].
Files have to be called Media rather than Image.
Does that make any sense?

Feel free to tag it onto one of my pages for now. At least that way you can provide a link to it from Apolyton so people can download it.

Alternatively read the Uploading guide and make a new page for it.

Upload Guide

Hope that helps

[GhostOfDisco]

Well, I did what you said. here's the page (as it is.)

Hope this helps.

[McMonkey]

Step 1

Upload the file

[McMonkey]

Copy the text and paste it into a wordpad (or whatever) and change the name to [[Media:Example.zip|ScenarioFiles]]

[McMonkey]

Go to an existing page (as I said you can put it in my WWII Europa page for the time being) and click on Edit (bottom left).

Paste your file into the space under a heading like:
==USCivil War 2013== (or whatever you want to call it)
[[Media:Example.zip|Scenario Files]]

Then save the page. Don't worry, you can undo any mistakes and rehome your files later on when you make your own page.

At least this way people can download it and you have a page to link to.

Hope that makes sense.

[GhostOfDisco]

Well, I've made a page (which you can find in my sig.) I think the download will work.

So feel free to download it; I'd love to hear what you'd have to say!

[GhostOfDisco]

Well, I uploaded it to your page, and then downloaded it, and it seems to work fine.

The sounds are missing, but I think that's because I forgot to put them in the file.

Anyway, if anyone's interested: a semi-working version of this scenario can now be downloaded! As I said above, it's not yet complete, but you can competently wage a USA-CNA war in this scenario (another thing; the latest version is the 2013war.scn, and it's for MGE only, and can't be used with FW.)

I wonder how I could link to such a thing in my sig...