Stalingrad, Come and Get It!

[greeny]

Originally posted by Shaka Naldur
I think there should be a few more units around the objectives cities to make it more challenging

Just you wait until your attacking the city in part 2!

[Insurgent]

Originally posted by Caspian
Hey, I just thought. Has any one realised that yesterday (2nd Feb) was the anniversary of the final German surrender at Stalingrad?

No, that was just the day they celebrated it (because of it being a Sunday methinks), the anniversary was on January 31st when the Germans surrendered (I believed the capitulation was signed on the 30th)...

[Shaka Naldur]

Originally posted by greeny


Just you wait until your attacking the city in part 2!

yes, you are right, the second part is harder,
I´ve just played two turns and had to start again

[Caspian]

Originally posted by Insurgent


No, that was just the day they celebrated it (because of it being a Sunday methinks), the anniversary was on January 31st when the Germans surrendered (I believed the capitulation was signed on the 30th)...

As far as I understood, at the end the German forces in Stalingrad were split into two pockets. The largest group surrendered with Von Paulos but the smaller group fought on a little longer. Von Paulos was actually made Field Marshal on the 31st and he surrendered the following day.

[Insurgent]

Paulus was proclaimed Field Marshal on the 30th and surrendered on the 31st.
General Strecker surrounded with the Northern pocket on February 2nd.

So, apparently I was wrong - the last Germans surrendered on the 2nd - I must have been thinking about Paulus' surrender. My mistake...

[Caspian]

LOL Insurgent, it's back to the text book with you!! And don't come back until you have memorised the order of battle for Army Group Don!! just kidding of course

[yaroslav]

Hi, FMK

I haven't played it - because I'm a fanatics about WWII scen, but I'm going to do that as soon as possible. I have read in CFC that you need to hex-edit it in order to stop global warmimg. Well, I've edit it. I believe that you still get the message about pollution and global warmimg, but without effects. Try it if you can

[klesh]

Hola yaroslav.

Hey thanks alot. The fellas here will appriciate it I believe. I'll go about changing the game.txt as well now, so as to provide 2 spicy 'random' text popups that'll merely add some atmosphere.

Henrik is my resident hex editor, but I havent seen him online alot in the past while. May I call on you in times of need to solve funky issues like this?

Man, I have studied spanish for more years than I'd like to admit. I wish I could speak to you in Spanish more fluently than I could now.

-FMK.

[H Tower]

Dammit!! Why isn't this a news item??? I would have seen this days ago!

[klesh]

Originally posted by H Tower
Dammit!! Why isn't this a news item??? I would have seen this days ago!

Lol, its hardly that big a deal.

-FMK.

[H Tower]

i'm having trouble with the ms-dos batch file the window pops up and then dissapears really quick. i managed to get a screen capture though. i'm not pushing any extra buttons or anything

[techumseh]

Are you running windows XE? The DOS based batch file won't work with that operating system, even if you install the 'choice' file, which has been suggested as a fix.

[Boco]

For debugging, throw in a 'Pause' or two.

Tech, what exactly have you seen with choice.com in XP? Since this has come up in a couple of forums, it might be worth a new thread, just to warn designers.

I think I still have an old dos utility by PCMag called Batchman that does the same thing. I'll try to dig it up and test it under XP. In industry, XP stands for eXplosion Proof. Yeah, right Bill.

Plus, wasn't there a VB program that someone wrote to do this sort of thing? If not, maybe we could beg Merc? I'd do it myself, but then I only have the VBA in Excel.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by techumseh
Are you running windows XE? The DOS based batch file won't work with that operating system, even if you install the 'choice' file, which has been suggested as a fix.

i'm running xp pro. do you mean that none of the scenarios that use batch files will really be playable anymore? There's got to be some other way!

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh
Hola yaroslav.

Hey thanks alot. The fellas here will appriciate it I believe. I'll go about changing the game.txt as well now, so as to provide 2 spicy 'random' text popups that'll merely add some atmosphere.

Henrik is my resident hex editor, but I havent seen him online alot in the past while. May I call on you in times of need to solve funky issues like this?

Man, I have studied spanish for more years than I'd like to admit. I wish I could speak to you in Spanish more fluently than I could now.

-FMK.

Yes, you could call me when you need it. I love to hex-edit and it's not difficult for me. In your scen, I've edited one byte that is described in the Allard H.S. Höfelt's Hex-Edit document this way:

"This is a fool-proof way to switch off pollution without the restrictions of the normal cheat-menu switching off of pollution. The message “global warming occurs/will occur soon” of course will need to be changed."

BTW, I'm pretty sure that your spanish is better than my English. Anyway, I can read English without too many problems, so don't worry