Let me explain: I have included a function to "punish" players trying to cheat by repeatedly saving and reloading during the same turn First of all, happy new year and thanks for the fantastic mod. Here's my problem with this. I hate the fact that the game randomises results so much from ...

Thanks. I suspected this was because of those events. It's not explicit in the descriptions, but it doesn't matter. It makes perfect historical sense. Thanks as ever for indulging my fetish for weird CP alliance configurations :). In another game I even got the Romanians on my side, perhaps the firs...

I am sorry to keep coming back to this sequence, but I still think there's something odd here (or again I don't fully understand it). R1: Tirpitz plan, Diplo Poker (Stavka fooled into not attacking early), Ultimatum (rejected) --> Russian Army mobilising. R2: Moltke to high seas, Turkey closes Ds R3...

As Bond reported above, there are some "invisible" units, due to missing icons. Specifically Type 89A and Type 89B. Using the "all eqp" cheat, I can also see missing icons for J1N1-S (tactical support). I have no idea if the opposition countermix has any icons missing, since I ca...

Interesting campaign. I admit I have never felt the urge to play the IJA in PzC. My books on the Pacific war, as most people's in the West, only care about the naval campaigns, or the post-1942 campaigns in Malaysia, Burma etc. The Mongolian battles are always presented as a foreshadowing of what wi...

OK, thanks for the clarification. It's fine, it makes sense as a sequence.

OK reloaded Round 2 from AutoSaveEndTurn to try with a new random seed: Italy Stays Neutral didn't fire. Played "Violations of Neutrality (Lux only)" and "German Army Redeploys", played my Austrian moves in Serbia. Round 3, Russian Surprise Attack, Italy joins CP. Perhaps I don't...

Round 2 of same game. Entente plays "Serbia Shall Not Bow" and... "Italy Stays Neutral"! Baffled. I guess I can redownload the mod entirely and reinstall the game from scratch completely, but I don't have a reliable connection for such a huge download (I'm travelling). I can try ...

Confirmed. Clean mod installation of 26 plus the 12 files in the last attachment above replacing the ones in the mod. Applied via JGSME on a clean game install. Diplo Poker (result Entente breaking off negotiations) followed by Ultimatum to Serbia (rejected): special event, Russian Army Mobilising (...

Hm, something may be wrong with my setup. I get the "Russian Army Mobilising" event instead when I get the Diplo Poker-Serbia Ultimatum (fail) sequence, with Russia due to enter in 3 rounds (as normal). Full Russian Mobilisation is also possible in these cases. I have got the Surprise Atta...

Hm, I think there may be something wrong with the removal of the "Italy stays neutral event". I started a new game where I followed the correct prescription: Diplo Poker + Ultimatum to Serbia (failed). In one case Italy was a bit further away from entry (no problem - I invested diplo point...

Thanks for this great effort. I love the idea of prestige winding down if you take too long. It's exactly the "hard choices" every game should give players. You can take too long to get prestige up by taking all objectives/growing experience for all your units, but it will cost you end pre...

Pretty tantalising teasers. Is this going to be a campaign (presumably for the IJA - or for the Soviets?), or just the two historical battles? I'm still holding out hope for your returning one day to the Soviet DLC '43 ;) Or perhaps do a proper British campaign, starting with the Phoney War (planes ...

Thanks. I will use it in the next restart. I have nonetheless managed to start a save with my ideal Italy-as-CP setup and it's great fun. It's very different - a very European conflict with quite good balance in the first 10 rounds. The early Russian invasion is quite tough for the CP, even with fre...

OK, I tested the new event sequence and it works BUT: In this particular game (always the Historical maximum events scenario) Italy started at 90 friendly. No problem, but I can't invest any diplomatic points to nudge her towards me as I get the error message that she's an ambiguous diplomatic count...

Thanks. I may have some time today to give this a spin.

I haven't had any success replicating what for me is the "best" Italian-as-CP scenario: this means Serbia resisting the ultimatum, but Italy getting roped in by her treaty obligations anyway. Option #2 (failed ultimatum, but Russia goes for quick mobilisation) hasn't come up since that fir...

Thanks. I tried another 5 starts this morning, 4 came out "successful" (=failure for the purposes of testing Italy).

I'll try this now.

Thanks. I have been trying to test the French spawning with Italy in the CP (by launching and quitting if the conditions are not there) and noticed that Serbia surrendering to the ultimatum happens way too often. I've no idea if the probability has/can be adjusted but it was something like 7 out of ...

Yeah, Round 5 the Italians got Marseilles. The French need beefing up in the south IMO.

I'll stop this playthrough here and try an Aufmarsch Ost now.