Lebensraum- 1939 PBEM Test

[Pavlov]

Coup in Madrid!
Yesterday generalissimo Franco was arrested and replaced by the lovable Capitan Paulov.

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Military exercise gathered Society
The rich and famous rubbed shoulders at this public exercise south of Madrid. Many exile Polish noblemen were seen, for example the countess Jiachovna of Strydnia who showed her support for the sufferings of the Polish people by wearing no diamonds.

Spain wants peace with western nations!
That's about it.


(Y'all don't get any crazy ideas just because I have 109's, I had them from the start of the scen. There's no mucking going on between me and Germany)

The 4th Airbrigade practising with the 65th Field Artillery and the 9th Infantry

[Pavlov]

One question FMK, let's say I managed to fool a big nation into letting me get "Armoured warfare", would I then be able to build those crappy tanks? Or do I have to stick with the light tank?*shudder*

[klesh]

NIce screenie Pavlov

Originally posted by Pavlov


One question FMK, let's say I managed to fool a big nation into letting me get "Armoured warfare", would I then be able to build those crappy tanks? Or do I have to stick with the light tank?*shudder*

Nope, Spain and Turkey are limited to the light tank. This is so even if they get techs for the better tanks. Unfortunately, they have no fighters either. Spain gets a few bf-109's, but I havent decided how to let the two minor players have planes...

-FMK.

[Case]

Pravda

Comrade Stalin Dies in his Sleep

The citizens of the USSR are deep in mourning following the news that their beloved and gentle leader Chairman Stalin has died in his sleep.
In a sombre meeting of the Politbeuro, the ministers unanimously elected Comrade Case as the new leader of the progressive world.

Brest-Livorsk Liberated

The city of Brest-Livorsk has been freed from the clutches of the capitalist-imperialist Polish government. Polish townsfolk have rushed to greet their Soviet liberators, and are looking forward to life in the worlds most progressive and advanced nation.

Neutrality Declared

The peace-loving Soviet Government has declared that it will be following a policy of strict neutrality in the future. However, the government reserves the right to attack the pathetic nations of the Balkans who dare to challenge the rightful Soviet hedgemony over the Balkan peninsular.

[Henrik]

Updated map:

Thought i'd update the map FMK posted earlier:

[Henrik]

Originally posted by Pavlov


One question FMK, let's say I managed to fool a big nation into letting me get "Armoured warfare", would I then be able to build those crappy tanks? Or do I have to stick with the light tank?*shudder*

No,

You could however buy individual units from major nations (like those mesershmidts you start with)...

[SetuSinger]

Sorry for me rushing into this post, but I find the german units are to weak!


They are good for invading poland, but when i try to invade France, i never get throught more than the netherlands.
Even with massive air raids i can't get the british EF out my way.

[SetuSinger]

And for some strange reasons, there is global warming...

[Darius871]

(Thought I'd post my comments here instead of the CF thread, since there's more discussion of the scen here)

Klesh, my only question so far is about Britain's unrest at the beginning. It's obviously intentional and I understand it, but did you really mean to have London blow up? At first I thought it was because I did my started SP game on deity, but it even happened on Prince.

Also I'm still worried about Pavlov's problem; I thought the events file has to engage for every player, regardless of the savegame. It's moot since Pavlov is playing Spain and probably won't be capturing any cities, but just FYI any major player has to have the events file working. Otherwise, for instance, say SunTzu's events aren't working and he captures Berlin. The text message saying so won't pop up and tech #53 won't go to the Germans, since the event would be have triggered in his file; it has nothing to do with the savegame he loaded from the previous player.

But, as I said, I guess for a minor player it's no big deal.

edit - Forgot another question: what made you decide to not have a carrier in this game? They did have a lot of importance in the European theater.

[yop73]

Also, could you give Russia some more factories at the beginning of the game? Or allow to have factories been build at plains?

[Pavlov]

Klesh, my only question so far is about Britain's unrest at the beginning. It's obviously intentional and I understand it, but did you really mean to have London blow up? At first I thought it was because I did my started SP game on deity, but it even happened on Prince.

I got that one too in singleplayer. It sure hurt.

Forgot another question: what made you decide to not have a carrier in this game? They did have a lot of importance in the European theater.

There are carriers in this scen.

[Henrik]

Im not FMK but I know the answer to some of your questions.

Originally posted by Darius871
Klesh, my only question so far is about Britain's unrest at the beginning. It's obviously intentional and I understand it, but did you really mean to have London blow up? At first I thought it was because I did my started SP game on deity, but it even happened on Prince.

This was a bug and should be fixed in the latest version (just download from the link earlier in this thread).

Also I'm still worried about Pavlov's problem; I thought the events file has to engage for every player, regardless of the savegame. It's moot since Pavlov is playing Spain and probably won't be capturing any cities, but just FYI any major player has to have the events file working. Otherwise, for instance, say SunTzu's events aren't working and he captures Berlin. The text message saying so won't pop up and tech #53 won't go to the Germans, since the event would be have triggered in his file; it has nothing to do with the savegame he loaded from the previous player.

The events for the entire game is saved in a save file the minute the scenario starts, this is something every scenario writer will quickly discover as it creates great difficulties when one wants to change the events manually (you have to run a program called "delevent" on the save file to remove the old events).

Try it yourself, start a game, save, remove the events file from the folder, and keep on playing from that file, the events will still work.

[techumseh]

Italy undertakes a minor peacekeeping mission in the Balkans.

[Darius871]

Thanks Henrik, that clears it all up except for his rationale about the carriers. My fleet needs fighters!

[Darius871]

Hmmm, I don't know what to tell you guys but I loaded the version here and London still blew up (at Prince). Anyhow I'm sure the version I had is the same as the one here, since SunTzu gave it to me and he got it here. Is there something wrong with my Civ2 or something?