Special features
Exit points
In the campaigns of this mod, I will refrain from using exit points throughout. Usually, in certain scenarios of the Panzer Corps campaigns, losing the scenario initiates a termination of the entire campaign. The player then either abandons the campaign game completely, reverts to an older save to repeat the mission, or uses a cheat to skip the exit. However, the campaign can also be abandoned without exit points, and without built-in exit points, you save yourself any additional effort in the event of a loss.
Prestige allocation
Instead, I have decided to use a slightly different approach to prestige allocation. In many Grand Campaign scenarios, players are awarded fixed amounts of prestige per round. I never particularly liked this practice, which is why I didn't use it in either DAW or D2R. It often leads to players artificially prolonging the mission in order to gain some extra prestige. In this mod, I will now take the opposite approach. At the beginning of a scenario, for which 20 rounds are planned, for example, the player receives 2000 prestige points. At the end of each round, 100 points are deducted. This gives the player an incentive to complete the mission as quickly as possible, as he can keep the remaining points if he finishes early. In purely defensive scenarios, such as those that occur in the first campaign in 1941, this advantage is not yet noticeable.
Purchasability of ships
As the player takes on the role of the USA, the focus shifts from purely ground and air combat to naval battles. One noticeable change here is the general possibility of purchasing ships. Players can add their own small fleet to their core forces.
Amphibious warfare
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The United States and Japan have amphibious units that can move more flexibly between sea and land areas. These amphibious units have special characteristics. It should be mentioned in advance that shallow sea terrain plays an important role here. Normally, this terrain type is rarely or never used in most scenarios. In this modification, however, it occurs more frequently in coastal areas. Visually, it looks like ‘sandy’ sea fields and represents sandbanks and beaches near the shore. Normal ships, such as destroyers (see image), cannot enter these fields.
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Only river boats (minesweepers) and amphibious units are capable of entering shallow sea fields and river fields (see image).
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On a shallow sea field, the marine infantry is able to leave the landing craft and fight their way onto the beach, as can the amphibious tank (see image). It should be noted that these amphibious units cannot land across the boundary between sea and normal land. This is reserved for ground units in transport ships, which in turn cannot move across shallow sea fields. Conversely, amphibious units can leave land from any shore towards the sea. They do not need ports to do so, but can enter ports either from the sea or from land.
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