New Scenario: "Atomic Eagle"

[curtsibling]

Any chance of a late-war nightmare before xmas?

[Harry Tuttle]

Yet another Update...

Unit.gifs have been completed for the first 4 out of 5 chapters in the scenario. I had to make some minor cuts to some nice units, but they had to be made. Ah well.

To accompany the slight cut down in units I'm going to have to change the tech tree just a smidge.

I just have to do some trade routes for the Nazis and I can start writing the next couple of event files.

But hey, the beast is coming along nicely. After the events are done I can start playtesting to work out the major bugs and then realease it to you guys for the outside playtesting! Sound good? Alright!

[Harry Tuttle]

Hmmm, before I start getting into the nitty gritty of utter war I thought I'd get some help from the experts. I need a few tips on overall AI tenacity. Does anyone have any good "unit supply line" tips? As in getting one civ to funnel units toward another civ, over long distances.

For example:

American and British aircraft and ground units funneled over the Atlantic, preferably through Iceland or by transport.

British aircraft and ground units funneled from India to the Middle East.

I have the airfields and roads set up, but I'm just afraid that even with Vendetta turned on towards the Nazis and Axis, and the Edit Kings options all turned to their highest to generate the usual utter rage the Americans and Brits will just sit on their butts. How effective is the City Objective option? Any ideas?

[Harry Tuttle]

Ok, improvements done across the board. Still need to put in Nazi and Soviet trade/food routes. I'm starting work on the second chapter where there will be war on a grander scale than the usual squads. Once I get the units figured out for the second chapter and then the final chapter I can start to playtest and tweak this monster. The second chapter events shouldn't be to hard as there will be a smaller quantity of selective unit triggers. Hope to be playtesting by Xmas. Wish me luck!

[Harry Tuttle]

Food Routes for Americans and British complete. Extra economic trade routes tying British Home Islands with territories in Middle East and India complete. Key American and British cities are now dependent on distant city resources (food, trade routes) adding a definate strategic balance. Nazi keystone trade regions will be added soon.

Off on a business trip for the next few days. So no new updates probably till next week.

[Harry Tuttle]

Update:

-Tech Tree finished
-All Wonders and Improvements given prereqs
-Terrain values given for all terrain + special resource tiles
-Food Routes started, 12 done, 36 when done.
-British Indian unit route laid, will be working out bugs.
-Icons completely done, finally.
-"Strategic units" to be given stats.
-Events for Strategic part of the game to be written.
-Improvements for most of Europe still need to be done.

And no, sorry, no new screenshots as of yet. The units have been almost completed anyways, so no new graphics to shock and amaze. The guts are being worked on right now.

[Arthedain]

Sounds justgreat Harry!

A screenie maybe?

[Harry Tuttle]

Update:

-Tech Tree has been mapped and will be implemented tomorrow.
-Beginning synopsis written and built into game.txt and events.txt.
-Special opening storyline campaign completely finished and all bugs worked out.
-Half of the worlds cities have had improvements added, other half will be finished tomorow.
-Beginning units have had prereqs assigned.
-Barbarians have not been given the option to build units - to much concern over unit limit in game.
-A premium sound editor may be coming from a friend, so don't be surprised if there is a soundtrack included.
-City limit has been met.
-"City" units used to mimic random cities on map have been cut out over concern that the max unit limit will be reached. And no, the units aren't going to be wimpy defensive units. Think about controlling divisions on the scale of Barbarossa and you can start to see what could be.

That's it for now folks!

[curtsibling]

The latest of many terrifying bugs that threaten to derail Atomic Eagle, then are conquered!

Phew!

This thread is almost as exciting as the scenario's world!

[Harry Tuttle]

Gerry was right! Thanks Gerry. The square I had the units created on did not exist... Now that's really odd, because I remember going through that event multiple times before and I had no problems... Hmmmm... Damn Gremlins.

[our_man]

Sounds like an odd-even co-ordinate error to me. Check your events.txt to make sure.

[gerryandersson]

I think that hapens when the square on wich the unit is created dose not exist. Im probobly wrong thow.

[Harry Tuttle]

Ok, this is a new one...

I have an event that creates two units when a "signal flare" is killed. Problem is that once these units are created they seem to be made out of the mythical element either, as they disappear as soon as I view another part of the map. If I do not move my view, the units remain intact and moveable. Keep in mind there is nothing special about these units. They are ground attack units.

What ze hell is going on?

Edit - Ok, now I can left click by the spot where they diappeared and they reappear, but only as long as I don't move my view again. There is some displacement of the terrain graphics behind the disappearing units. I do have an event that diplays two text files in the same turn... That may be screwing something up.

[curtsibling]

Well said, Harry!

Hitler took all the genius, manpower and potential of a great nation
and handed it over to maniacs who made a junk heap out of Europe.

Tragic.

[Harry Tuttle]

Well I don't know. He really didn't really have many places to go after WW2. I mean, the guy was a fanatical dictator for sure, but his vision for a future reich was just one with big, plain buildings, a job for all the german folk, and crappy ones or death for the "undermenschen". Besides his obsession with hi-tech military machines and taking over the world his vision of the future was as sterile as can be. In fact, I just read Harry Turtledoves' "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" and I think that his portrayal of a world with Hitler is a good summation of what would have hapened - A police state, run by long viscious regimes, dependent on other countries for resources, too wound up in Nazi propaganda to have any real sort of society. Blah!

The only reason why WW2 and the Nazis were so different from other wars and other militaristic regimes was the fact that they were out to destroy the society as we know it - and almost succeeded. They used hi-tech weapons, new styles of warfare, and fought some of the most charismatic leaders our countries have ever known. Besides that, and the incredible death they left behind, there is nothing really all that special. Yes, I concur, the autobahn was an engineering marvel and looks, even today, like one hell of a fun ride, but after that, it's just a road. And, at least for me, big domes are only good for the Super Bowl and teams named after Blue Jays.

The only really interesting Nazis I know of are not really the "party-minded" ones. Take for instance Rommel, Mannheim, and Von Braun. Two generals and a scientist/engineer. Their careers were spent doing things we can look at and say: yes, I can admire that. With Hitler I can't do that. He was only good at politics and providing a vehicle for bad men to do bad things.