Eastern Front: Soviet Storm v1.96b (Link Fixed)

[maho1973]

Hello Akkula,
Excellent work , but am I wrong, or the debriefings of missions no. 19. Star (MV), 21. Suvorov (DV,MV, Loss), 22. Dnieper-Cross (Loss), 23. Dnieper-Bridge (Loss), 26. Kingisepp-Gdow (Loss) and 29. Jassy-Kishinev (Loss) are still missing?
Keep up your fantastic work on an excellent campaign.

[Akkula]

Hello maho, thanks for your nice words man!
I will take a look at those briefing files and see if some are missing. Will fix in any case by the next release.

So, it seems you almost finished the campaign. Did already reached Berlin or Prague?. Could end WW2?.

Best regards.
Akkula.

[Akkula]

I have a request for all those who played The Great Patriotic War scenario: do you guys found the prestige balanced?. too few?, too much?, its ok?.
I am about to starting to work on some fixes and additions to the scenario and I want to be sure to have a strong starting point regarding this topic.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.
Akkula.

[RobertCL]

Hi Akkula,

Since you will work on fixes, please check the sounds.
This really destroys gameplay, I do not have such issues with other mods.
Thx a lot in advance!

[truth80]

Let me to congratulate to this excellent mod. I extremely enjoyed the early defensive missions (even with significant loses on my side). I´m hoping there are more defensive missions after defending Moscow

[peterw]

There are defensive missions later too.

I personately prefer to be on attack.
Especially if I have the first turn I know the weather at the enemy turn; I like this and use it for my advantage.

[Akkula]

Let me to congratulate to this excellent mod. I extremely enjoyed the early defensive missions (even with significant loses on my side). I´m hoping there are more defensive missions after defending Moscow

Thanks a lot for your kind words friend!
As always, I am glad to deliver some good enjoyment to members of this great community, it really pushes me to keep working on my project.
I hope you enjoy the campaign and the big scenario as well

There are defensive missions later too.

I personately prefer to be on attack.
Especially if I have the first turn I know the weather at the enemy turn; I like this and use it for my advantage.

Yeah, but I think I like both 50-50

[truth80]

I created two field fortification units as an experiment and after one scenario I got the option to convert them into further infrastructure. They have been upgraded to Maxim Gorky and work excellent in the battles

The only thing which I do not find anywhere (also in the manual) - how can I repair them? I cannot use the option neither in the battles nor between the scenarios. Isn´t it possible? Should I simply let them die and create new ones?

[Akkula]

Lol, that is something unexpected of course!.
I will fix it for the next update, enjoy it while you can

Thanks for that strange catch!.
best regards, Akkula.

PS: Maxim Gorky cannot be repaired for balance reasons.

[truth80]

Oh... you will remove these guys... My ranged firepower will be decreased Nevertheless I found strange that Maxim Gorky can be transported by vans

[Akkula]

[maho1973]

Hello maho, thanks for your nice words man!
I will take a look at those briefing files and see if some are missing. Will fix in any case by the next release.

So, it seems you almost finished the campaign. Did already reached Berlin or Prague?. Could end WW2?.

Best regards.
Akkula.

Hello Akkula,
First I want to apologize for my late reply. To get back to your question, I must confess that I am not yet progressed as far in your campaign as you might suppose.
But besides playing your fantastic campaign I work also on a German translation.
The following Mission texts are missing, unfortunately, still (version 1.4): Mission No. 8: MV; mission no. 9: Loss, mission no. 14: Loss.
Among the previously reported lack of Mission texts on all missions 19, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 29 are still missing in the following missions no. 31: Loss, no. 34: DV, MV, Loss, no.35: DV, MV, Loss, no. 36: MV, Loss, no. 37: DV, MV, Loss and mission no. 38: MV, Loss.
Maybe you can add one or another missing text in your next update.

[Akkula]

Wow, I need you for the beta testing for sure . I had a mess with the files lately (backups, old and new versions, etc), I hope to fix them all for 1.5 which is coming soon

Thanks for the reports. If you find more please let me know.

Regards.
Akkula.

[truth80]

Hi Akkula, for the fix I also have some proposals (beside the above described infantry-infrastructure conversion issue)

- On the strategic map the axis is really hard to identify. The small grey cubes fade into the environment, sometimes it causes bad surprises
- On several maps (e.g. Narva, Debrecen) there are some axis units on the very top of the map. They cannot be attacked because they stand only on half hexes.

The rest is excellent.

[Akkula]

Hi truth, first at all thanks for your kind words . Im glad you enjoy my work

Now to answer your asks:
- Yup, I agree. I noticed that in normal scenarios the strategic map is useless, but its perfect for The Great Patriotic War scenario (thanks to McGuba of course). To solve this, I will include both options in the next release: vanilla and "big maps style".
- Yeah, I received several reports about that and I have fixed them in this new version.

Again, thanks for your feedback.

Best regards.
Akkula.

[Akkula]

Some more screenshots of some of the new additions for the upcoming new release:

[Akkula]

Hi everyone!. Finally Version 1.5 is up!

The main highlight of this release is the introduction of the Scenarios option. So far I have added 7 new scenarios (1 from the campaign) to play as German or Soviet, my aim is to add many more by the next update, I hope you find them interesting .
Also I added two options regarding the Strategic Map icons to fit the different characteristics of huge and standard scenarios. Basically they are a McGuba style icons or the Vanilla ones, check the Readme file for further details.

Remainder: The Great Patriotic War scenario is designed to be played as Colonel (or higher) difficulty, otherwise is boring .

Download Soviet Storm 1.5:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/88qkn ... m_v1.5.rar


This mod REQUIERES the fantastic Massi tiles mod, otherwise it will not work properly. You can find it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7in6yxqxi86l ... 0massi.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fhpta ... +massi.zip

Please take a look at the Readme.txt for detailed installation instructions.

Version 1.5 - What´s New
* Stand alone scenarios available (Soviet and Axis sides playable).
Vyborg 1941
Tula
kerch 1941
Rostov 1942
Little Saturn
Polar Star
Dukla Pass

Balance/Fixes
* New units: OT-134, OT-34-85
* T-34-85 series modified: T-34-85/43, T-34-85/44, T-34-85/45
* IS-2 series modified: IS-2/1943, IS-2/1944
* Wehrmacht Riflemen family modified: 1939 and 1943 variants.
* IAR81M fighter added.
* Field Fortification (Structure mode) upgrade fixed.
* Soviet AT Infantry Soft and Hard Attack decreased
* Soviet MG Inf 42 changed to 43. Available by 1943.
* German Volkssturm Hard Attack increased
* Soviet and Axis Engineers (1943) Hard Attack decreased

General
* Many winter skins for German units corrected.
* Yer-2 unit icon changed to Asuser version.
* T-43 skin changed to soviet green and winter variant added
* Finnish Vickers unit icon improved
* Guards T-34/41 sound issues fixed
* Soviet trains sound corrected
* German icons colors for strategic map corrected.
* Some Library corrections and additions.
* Some sound issues in a few units fixed.

The Forgotten Campaigns
* Pe-2 series placement on the campaign scenarios fixed
* Several new units skins added in several campaign scenarios
* Scenario 19: German SPG unit outside scenario limits removed. Soviet airfield added in the east side.
* Scenario 31: End turn screen objectives description corrected.
* Some briefing texts missing fixed.

The Great Patriotic War
* Now a message will appear indicating when the Italy area is not accessible because of Allies Operation Husky.
* Stalingrad later tank production conditions fixed
* German Case Blau forces slightly strengthen
* Soviet units near Kandalaksha redeployed
* Airfield hex at Kolozsvar fixed
* More reinforcements entry points hexes added
* More historical Heroes added
* More events added (Mainly on the Barents Sea and Baltics area)
* New units announced in this release added to the scenario
* New Stavka missions with new special units as rewards.

I hope you enjoy, and, as always, feedback is always welcome!. I am planning to release a major release in the next months so for those who are interested in this: stay tuned!.

Best regards.
Akkula.

[Magic1111]

Thx for all your work Akkula, very nice!!!

[uzbek2012]

Hi everyone!. Finally Version 1.5 is up!
Akkula.

Excellent, already downloaded and will test )

[Cataphract88]

Thank you, Akkula.