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[Longasc]

Dunkirk scenario

Briefing:
Evacuation units -> evacuation units
Map:
Vieteren -> Vleteren
Fort Mardyck -> Fort-Mardyck (don't ask me why it is "Fort-Name" but that's the official name)

[Kerensky]

In the interest of a historically (more) correct scenario that should still be balanced (and maybe even more fun ).

Airfield 3,21 = Kjevik.
Airfield 14,5 = Fornebu. Move airfield to Sandvika 13,6.
Airfield 19,10 = Kjeller. Move airfield to Lillestrøm 18,6.
Askim 18,11 = Mysen.
Add airfield Gardermoen on 17,2.
Remove airfield at 4,10.
Add port Drøbak on 15,11.

Add coastal fort Rauøy (strength 5) on 16,16.
Add coastal fort Bolærne (strength 5) on 13,14.
Reduce strength from 7 to 5 for Oscarsborg on 14,10 and rename to Kopås.
Move Oscarsborg on 15,10 to 13,11.
Delete forts/strongholds on 15,9 + 16,10 + 15,11.

Rename unit on 10,19 to Larvik Sikring (and optionally reduce strength to 5).
Add Schnellboote unit to 10,20 strength 5 and name unit 3.Torpedobåt.
Rename unit on 7,17 to Porsgrunn Sikring (and optionally reduce strength to 5).
Add unit 40mm Bofors strength 5 to 7,18 and name unit Herøya Luftvern.
Delete artillery unit on 10,18.
Delete AA unit on 11,18
Rename unit on 13,15 to Tønsberg Sikring (and optionally reduce strength to 5).
Add Schnellboote unit to 14,16 strength 5 and name unit 1.Minesveiper.
Add Sub unit to 14,17 strength 5 and name unit 1.Undervannsbåt.
Rename unit on 13,13 to Horten Sikring (and optionally reduce strength to 5).
Add unit 40mm Bofors strength 5 to 12,14 and name unit Horten Luftvern.
Add Light Cruiser strength 5 to 13,12 and name unit Tordenskjold.
Rename Inf unit at 4,12 to II/3.Telemark, change strength from 5 to 10 and set arrival to turn 2.
Replace AA unit at 4,10 with 75/76mm AA, rename to Kongsberg Luftvern and move to 5,11.
Replace Inf unit at 13,6 with a Biplane Fighter unit (ie CR 42) strength 5 and name unit Flygerbataljonen.
Add small calibre AA unit at 13,6 strength 5 and name unit Fornebu Luftvern.
Delete AA unit at 14,5.
Rename Inf unit at 15,6 to HMK Garde (optionally increase experience).
Add AA unit 75mm Bofors strength 5 to 14,6 and name unit Oslo Luftvern.
Replace Art unit at 15,5 with Inf unit strength 5 and name unit Gamst/Kongsvinger.
Add Biplane Fighter unit at 18,6 strength 5 and name unit Speidervingen.
Add AA unit 75mm Bofors strength 5 to 18,6 and name unit Kjeller Luftvern.
Remove Inf unit at 18,11.
Add Fort unit to 18,11 strength 10 and name unit Trøgstad Fort.
Add 12cm Art unit w/trucks strength 10 on 19,11 and name unit 1.Motorisert Artilleri.
Add 10.5cm Art unit w/trucks strength 10 on 19,10 and name unit 2.Motorisert Artilleri.
Add Inf unit on 15,11 strength 5 and name unit 1.Landvern/2.Reg.
Rename unit on 15,13 to 2.Landvern/2.Reg (optionally reduce strength to 5).
Add Inf unit strength 10 on 17,16 and name unit Landvern/1.Reg.
Add 7.5cm (or 12cm) Art unit strength 10 on 17,15 and name unit II/1.Artilleri.
Add Fort unit strength 5 on 18,16 and name unit Ravneberget Batteri.
Add Fort unit strength 5 on 18,14 and name unit Greåker Fort.
Replace Inf unit on 12,3 with Engineer unit strength 5 and name unit 4.Ingeniør.
Rename Inf unit on 18,3 to II/5.Oppland.
Add Biplane Fighter unit on 17,2 strength 5 and name unit Flygeskolen.
Add Cav unit on 17,2 strength 10 and name unit 1.Dragon Reg.

The Gruppe V Kriegsmarine with destination Oslo should consist of:
Heavy Cruisers Blücher and Lützow
Light Cruiser Emden (and Leipzig as an option)
Schnellboote (Torpedo boats) Albatross, Kondor and Möwe.
One Raumboote flotilla, probably best represented by one Schnellboote unit.
(The cruisers Köln and Königsberg were not available at Oslo, nor the destroyers).

Rename the two Fallschirmjäger units on 16,18 and 10,23 to Schmidt and Gröschke.
Rename the He111 unit 15,23 to KG4.
Rename the Pioniere unit on 17,19 to 234.Pionier.
Rename the Art unit on 15,20 to I/234.Art.
Rename the Art unit on 11,21 to II/234.Art.
Rename the Pz unit on 16,19 to Burstin (name of commander) and change strength to 5.
Rename the Pz unit on 15,19 to Tölke and change strength to 5.
Replace the PzIIIF unit on 11,21 with PzIV strength 5(experimental PzIVA) and rename unit to Horstmann.
Add PzI unit strength 5 and name unit Niedrick.
Rename Ju87 unit on 9,23 to I/StG1.
Replace Ju87 unit on 13,23 with Bf110C and rename unit to I/ZG76.
Rename BF109 unit on 14,23 to II/JG77.

That's all
Erik

I changed a few of the airfield names, so it's Kjevik Airfield now.
The german light cruisers have already been renamed, and most of the destroyers replaced with schnellboots.

As for everything else. well it's pretty obvious you're very passionate about this scenario but I have to tell you that the vast majority of the items you requested are not acceptable.

Understrengthing units to 5 is not a historical tool as much as it is a game play tool. 5 strength turns into 1 strength on Sergeant, and turn into 10 strength on Manstein. More often then not, the AI can also not properly handle 5 strength units, and will simply reinforce them to 10 on its first turn.

Excessive renaming of units is absolutely not acceptable for a large variety of reasons. It detracts from the few units who do have special names, and something like II/JG77 is meaningless to most gamers. It only serves to obscure what the unit actually is (109E), this problem is especially pertinent when dealing with landing craft and other types of transports. Confusion factor goes through the roof, game play benefits are non-existant.

I would say your best bet to see your vision of this scenario is to fire up the design tools and put all your ideas exactly as you want them.
Trying to fit them all into a piece of a campaign is just not feasible and serves to hurt the campaign instead of help it, sorry. Thanks for the effort though, it's always good to see very passionate people.

Matter of fact, if you put that scenario together as you envision it, maybe you can turn it into an awesome multiplayer or single-play scenario map.

[Kerensky]

Dunkirk scenario

Briefing:
Evacuation units -> evacuation units
Map:
Vieteren -> Vleteren
Fort Mardyck -> Fort-Mardyck (don't ask me why it is "Fort-Name" but that's the official name)

Evacuation in the briefing is intentional to highlight the kinds of units the player is looking for. All of the relevant units on the map are all called 'Evacuation something'.
It's a trick with visual association. The appearance of the word 'Evacuation' is identical to how it appears on names of units on the map, which triggers association of the two.

The other two are fine though.

[Erik2]

@Erik, wow, that is a lot of changes. One thing, though, this thread is for text changes and you are proposing major gameplay/map changes. You may want to start a separate thread for these type changes. Also, pics might help. You could make a copy of the map, then open it up in the Editor and make your changes. Then, you could make screenshots which would make it easier to see some of the changes.

You cannot open these scenarios in the editor, I have tried.
Most of the changes are minor IMO (names and a few eqp changes), even the map changes (airfields) should not unbalance the scenario since the availability of the fields stay the same.

Erik

[AgentX]

You cannot open these scenarios in the editor, I have tried.
Most of the changes are minor IMO (names and a few eqp changes), even the map changes (airfields) should not unbalance the scenario since the availability of the fields stay the same.

Erik

First, make a copy of the scenario and paste it somewhere other than the main Panzer Corps program folder (like in the Documents folder; or create a folder on the desktop). I don't think you can make changes while the files are in the main PC folder. Then, start the Editor and open the copied file. You should be able to modify it now (I just checked and was able to do it). Save the changes and either make it a custom scenario or replace the original in the PC program folder.

To make it a custom scenario, create a Scenario folder inside Libraries/Documents/My Games/Panzer Corps (you'll see others named Log and Save). Put the modified map in the Scenario folder, start PC and go to the Scenarios menu. Scroll to the bottom and pick Custom. A list of custom scenarios will now show up and you can start it from there. If you're going to replace the original and see how it plays out in your campaign, make a backup of the original map so you can restore it later, if needed (like the changes end up being too drastic or you make some error that causes the map to crash).

[OmegaMan1]

Stonne, post briefing:
1. In the second line, "...routed the French they are in..." there should be a period between "French" and "They."

Wassigny briefing:
1. In the third paragraph, "counter-attack" should be "counterattack."

[Erik2]

Understrengthing units to 5 is not a historical tool as much as it is a game play tool. 5 strength turns into 1 strength on Sergeant, and turn into 10 strength on Manstein. More often then not, the AI can also not properly handle 5 strength units, and will simply reinforce them to 10 on its first turn.

Excessive renaming of units is absolutely not acceptable for a large variety of reasons. It detracts from the few units who do have special names, and something like II/JG77 is meaningless to most gamers. It only serves to obscure what the unit actually is (109E), this problem is especially pertinent when dealing with landing craft and other types of transports. Confusion factor goes through the roof, game play benefits are non-existant.

Thanks for the reply. I understand that the non-chrome changes may be too drastic.
But there are a couple of things I do not understand.
5 strength units are already used extensively in this and other scenarios. I think reducing a few units while boosting others or adding more 5 strength units should be trivial as long as the total balance is maintained.

I think you are underestimating the players. The Luftwaffe designations is pretty standard stuff...
Most players with even a casual interest in military history would be familiar with ie battalion desgnations like I, II etc.

My view is that historically correct unit names can only enhance the user experience.

BTW, I am unable to open the DLC scenarios in the regular (updated) editor, even after moving the scenario file.

Thanks
Erik

[IainMcNeil]

We're too late in the day to make any significant changes to the scenario design as we dont have time to balance any changes so please keep any changes from now on more focussed on a specific balance issue. Text changes are fine but balancing is mroe delicate.

[Longasc]

Reims Briefing:
-> remove second "once again"
-> to breech -> to break
Map:
Fere-en-Tardenos -> Fère-en-Tardenois
Suppes -> Suippes
Bazancourt -> Bezancourt
Brane -> Braine
Corbeny -> Corbenay (both exist but ours near Brane is Corbenay) <doh> Signy-l'Abbaye
Chateau Porcien -> Chateau-Porcien
Neufchatel -> Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne (this is something a native speaker should check, I think Neufchatel is okay, too)

[Kerensky]

I removed one of the 'once again' but I'm pretty sure I meant to say breech. It means 'to penetrate'.

Although apparently I spelt it wrong. The word I was looking for is 'breach'

[Longasc]

Maginot Line:

Debriefing:
The Great War -> the Great War (it's in the sentence, not at the beginning)
Map:
Saarbrucken -> Saarbrücken

[OmegaMan1]

Amiens post-mission brief:
1. There should be a hyphen between "build up" (no hyphen indicates verb form).

Dunkirk briefing:
1. In the first paragraph, where it says "...our scouts have detected the British..." sounds awkward; might be better if it said, "have detected that the British..."

[Longasc]

Stonne:
Beleville -> Belleville
Pouro-Saint-Remy -> Pouru-Saint-Remy


Wassigny:
Catilon-sur-Cambre -> Catillon-sur-Sambre
Le Cateua-Cambresis -> Le Cateau-Cambresis


Poznan:
Gorlitz -> Görlitz
Glogow (Germans call it Glogau but let's keep the Polish names for their cities, it's OK)
Frankfurt: Suggest "Frankfurt an der Oder" or "Frankfurt/Oder", the usual German names.

[Kerensky]

Just as a note, as we have in the base game, no cities will receive any sort of accent markings.
Any cities that 'could be' either X or Y will mostly likely stay as is as well.

[Longasc]

I just checked and noticed that Nürnberg, Würzburg and Brünn for example are Nurnberg, Wurzburg and Brunn.
Guess "Umlaute" (äöü) also count as accent marking then?

Suggested improvement for Panzer Corps: Put the ü back in Fuhrer!

[Kerensky]

I just checked and noticed that Nürnberg, Würzburg and Brünn for example are Nurnberg, Wurzburg and Brunn.
Guess "Umlaute" (äöü) also count as accent marking then?

Suggested improvement for Panzer Corps: Put the ü back in Fuhrer!

I'm just following the precedent. Although I'm pretty sure this was done intentionally (format of the files associated to maps may not allow special characters)
And actually, we can't even say Führer... We do have to play by those rules for our product.

Frankfurt on the Germany map is also just 'Frankfurt' BTW

[Longasc]

Lodz: Everything OK
Piatek: Everything OK
Wyszogrod: Everything OK

I see it coming, you will spell every Krzyrckreaqkyzw kind of city in Poland correctly but mess up wonderful city names in Italy!
Danzig S+N will be checked last, because the names are damn difficult for me.

Edit: Can't find Turskaw in the Kampinoska Forest map on Google maps. Besides that everything OK.
Oslo: Everything OK.

[OmegaMan1]

Dunkirk post-mission briefing:

1. Where it says, "Hello once again Herr General ... good to be in contact with you again..." remove one of the "agains" as this is redundant (probably the first "once again").

[OmegaMan1]

Reims briefing:

1. Where it says, "Greetings once again ... ready for action once again..." drop the "once again" after "greetings."
2. The word "breech" should be "breach."
3. "Counter-attacks" is one word.

[OmegaMan1]

Maginot Line briefing:

1. In the third paragraph, where it says "...first line of defense, how ironic..." replace the comma with a semicolon.