Pacific Assault - coming soon!

[jim panse]

Any idea of the colour of the Dutch Colonial Infantry?

[jim panse]

And one more screenshot.

Progress so far: some minor graphical adjustments are still to be done; the Russian units have been placed.

[fairline]

I bow to your greater knowledge Case

I think the 101st Airborne were slated to go to the Pacific as well for a planned invasion of Japan. I'd go with the 11th as they were the only division to actually see action in the Pacific (in Leyte I think). I think they only took part in limited airborne operations as most of the transport planes were used by the 2 US and 2 Brit airborne divisions in Europe. The 11th did see plenty of combat through '44 and '45 though.

I'd still replace the Brit airborne with Chindits. The Paras saw no action in the Pacific to my knowledge, while the Chindits saw plenty in Burma.

[fairline]

Jim - the units you've used for the Aussies would be good for the Brits as well (I'd give the Aussies one or two slouch hats). The British wore jungle green after 1942 I think. They also wore slouch hats and tin helmets in equal numbers, like the Aussies. I'd distinguish the Australians by giving one of your units an Owen gun, which was an Aussie SMG with a vertical magazine. I think Case did a graphic.

Dutch East Indies troops troops wore a green uniform with brown putees and equipment, and a straw hat thing, turned up at the side like the slouch hat.

[Case]

Originally posted by fairline
I bow to your greater knowledge Case

And so you should

I'd go with the 11th as they were the only division to actually see action in the Pacific (in Leyte I think). I think they only took part in limited airborne operations as most of the transport planes were used by the 2 US and 2 Brit airborne divisions in Europe. The 11th did see plenty of combat through '44 and '45 though.

There were enough transport planes in the Pacific for the 11th to have made larger scale jumps, but MacArthur didn't like paratroop tactics, and believed that they were ill-suited to jungle warfare. His plans for the invasion of Japan called for landing the paras from ships and using them only as elite assault infantry (much like how they were used in Leyte and Luzon).

Jim, http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/ is the best source for all things related to the Dutch East Indies.

Here are my Australian infantry units. I've also includded my attempt at a British armoured carrier, the kind of carrier the British mainly used in the Pacific (the Ark Royal never went anywhere near the Pacific).

[Case]

Attaching the file to my post would probably be a good idea

Note that the Australian Army changed over to jungle green uniform in 1943. Before that they wore standard British Khaki (I don't know where Guk Guk got his Australian uniform from!)

[jim panse]

HELP NEEDED!

I finished the scenario and wanted to see if the date works properly and it crashes every time.

* Why?
* How many units are allowed? I´ve included more than 1000. Is this too much?

[curtsibling]

Check your rules and events, it's likely to be a missing comma or something.

Each civ is allowed a few hundred units...

[Paul Hanson]

It's probably something to do with the events; they're notorious for causing scenario problems.

[jim panse]

there is no events.txt included yet ....

[curtsibling]

Can we help you check through your rules file?
If you want to keep it secret, that is OK...

But I'll bet it's a missing comma...or something...
Easy to miss during late night scenario editing, but causes a huge problem...
And also everyone must have access to the 'future techs'...
If they do not, it causes a crash.
I found this out recently...

[jim panse]

I do not think it´s the Rules.txt because when I did the unit placing via the Cheat option there is no problem with saving and loading the game. The problem occurs only when I try to load the pacificassault.scn file. I do not know what I did wrong. Maybe too many units?

[curtsibling]

Could be...
Is it possible to resave the scn file?

Do you have a backup save for making a new one?

[jim panse]

I have a couple of backup files. I´ll try to redo a *.scn file. I hope it will word. Does anyone know how many units are allowed?

[Case]

The total unit limit is way abouve 1000. From memory, it's roughly 3000 (where the AI simplys stops placing new units, and doesn't crash the scenario!).