Erik, here is the Campaign Tree. It's fairly straightforward with one crossroad. Please check the branching from Berlin; it seems to make sense from the scenario descriptions. Berlin says "The final stand of the Wehrmacht" and if the player can "Hold at least 18 objectives at scenario end" but does not "Keep all Waffen SS units alive," that will be a Minor Victory and the campaign will be over. However, if he can achieve both objectives, that will be a Major Victory and the bonus will be Berlin Redux in which "German forces trapped in Berlin make a final attempt to throw the Soviet forces out of the capital." Viewed from the safety and comfort of an armchair, that sounds like fun!
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The campaign itself looks fine. I just have a minor qualm over the dates of Victory and Defeat; you will know better than I whether having their branches dated before the start date of the campaign will be an issue or not:
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One more thing, and you will definitely know more about this than I do (I just learned how to do this by looking at feedback in your campaigns thread). I gather that the core name is not important to match; how, for example, is the player to know when he saves a core that it is to be named "Wehrmacht"? I am reasonably sure that importing a core by any name will work as long as the campaign name matches. [* See below.] Apparently, when the player saves his core, embedded in the save is the name of the campaign from whence it came. Here, you provide for importing cores from the "Germany East 44" and "Germany West 44" campaigns:
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Now, oh wise and wonderful campaign designer, do those campaign names need to exactly match the official name of each campaign as recorded in text_english.txt? For, these are those names and you can see that, in version 1.0, the name is "Germany West 1944":
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[* Heh, you see how this works? I learned something new just now. It's the core file name that does not matter. The name of the core itself is established by this statement in text_english.txt:
// CORE NAMES
core_wehrmacht = Wehrmacht
Which in turn was established when you set it in Germany East 44 and Germany West 44 in the campaign editor. This is not controlled by the player; it is embedded in the saved core file and you are requiring it for Germany East 45. So core name is fine but still, I believe there may be a problem with mismatched Germany West 44/1944 campaign names, no?]
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but when it comes to the topic of SS core units, it may just incite the player to use them as a last line of defence when all other possibilities have been expended; something that isn't unlike what was done in 1945 Germany.
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