Anyone want to playtest a ToT scenario?

[Marko]

JULY 1940 – The Fall of Thessaloniki

Germany captured Bayonne (the last French mainland city) and after two months siege Thessaloniki. Now I expect the fall of Greece during next few months.
Allied battleship was sunk by Italian infantry when it tried coastal bombardment in The Mediterranean!
Naval battle in North Sea is lost but I try recapture Narvik with ground and air forces.

Suggestions: Maybe make battleship more powerful and let only Allies build it (Germany can get some via events). Also battleship could carry 1-2 units – so Allied coastal bombardments are much more dangerous: they can occupy emptied cities.


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[Marko]

AUGUST 1940 – Battle for Greece

Germany’s army group South captured Valos and start moving toward Athens. Italy’s battle fleet blockaded Athens from the sea. Allied made heavy air raids over North France and their battle fleet bombard relentlessly Norway. All my air and ground forces in North Norway are destroyed...
I completed Propaganda Campaigns front of Russians.
Events triggered texts appear one month earlier than they must: “August 8th, 1940...” text appear at July, “September 13th, 1940...” text at August.


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[Marko]

SEPTEMBER 1940 – Battle for Greece II

Army group South captured Athinai and Petrai and started preparations moving to North Africa.

Better if Allied pillbox in Northen Greece (loc. 72,104) belongs to Athinai, so it doesn’t survive when entire Greece is captured.


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[Marko]

OCTOBER 1940 – Norwegian Rebellion

Norwegian partisans liberated Oslo! There are also heavy ground battles between Narvik and Trondheim.

I discovered strange ToT bug: I moved accidently transport ship (full with reinforcements from Italy to Africa) to open sea to same square where was also my battleship. When it sank because of far from the coast, battleship was also sunk!


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[Marko]

NOVEMBER 1940 – Battle for Cyrenaica

Allies started strong offensive from Egypt and captured Tobruk. Seems that all Cyrenaica will be lost. German army group South sit in Greece and make preparations to invade Crete and later land on the African coast between Tobruk and El Alamein. In North I recaptured Oslo.

I compared stats of Soviet and German tanks. Seems that Soviet heavy tanks KV-1 and KV-2 are strongly underestimated:

Main gun – front armor – speed
Attack – defence – hit points – firepower – move points

KV-1
76,2mm – 130mm – 35km/h
13 – 10 – 4 – 4 – 4

KV-2
152mm – 110mm – 26km/h
14 – 6 – 4 – 4 – 4

T-34/76
76,2mm – 45mm – 55km/h
20 – 13 – 3 – 4 – 4

Pzkpfw. IV ausf. H
75mm – 50mm – 38km/h
15 – 11 – 3 – 4 – 5

KV tanks must be at least as strong as T-34 (T-34 was medium but KV heavy tank; both were elite tanks in Soviet armor forces in 1941) and certainly better than Pz IV.
KV-1 could be something like 21 – 14 – 4 – 4 – 4 and KV-2 23 – 11 – 3 – 4 – 3.


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[Archangel]

Hi Marco,

are you sure about the event dates being off? It was fine during my game. I may have tweaked some things in the events...

The soviet kw-2 tanks was a very poor tank. The KW-1 was good. I made the stats for playability more than historical accuracy, but if you think historical accuracy would be better then I guess I'll change. Wait till you fight Russia before you decide if i should increase Soviet statistics.

[Stefu]

Hey, ARchangel, for some reason file didn't work.

[NickC]

You need all the upgrades.

[Archangel]

Yes Stefu, Nick is right. You need to download the patch found somewhere here on apolyton. Nick, you said you'd playtest, what do you think of the scenario so far?

[NickC]

Well, the units, when they walk, stay as the default unit, so I need some help fixing that...

[Archangel]

Nick, you need to remove all the sprite files from the "original" directory.

[DarthVeda]

The KV-2 was a very poor tank. It had a low velocity cannon (really a howitzer). The ball bearings in the turret couldn't take the weight and the turret took a very long time to operate. It could not aim while moving either. By 1942, all KV-2s had been converted to KV-1s.

[Marko]

DECEMBER 1940 – Battle for Cyrenaica II

Only some unimportant battles in Cyrenaica and Norway.

I like the winter graphics and also that ToT allows simulate some kind of climate zones so there aren’t much snow in North Africa.
There are warnings about winter and summer only at 19, 24 and 48 turn in Events-file. You need to make them because it is so easy to forget switching the files.


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[Marko]

JANUARY 1941 – Battle of Crete

Allies renew their offensive in Libya and captured Benghazi. German army group South made successful landing on Crete and captured Iraklion. On North Sea I managed sank many Allied ships with sea and air attacks.



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[MGamer07]

I wanna playtest too!

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MGamer07
Email me here:
matt_holmes07@hotmail.com