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Heh. Thanks. For recurring errors, it's either "Casablanca," which I am on guard against, or "Copacabana," which seems to be up and coming. No matter; I believe we are finished with Casabianca after this.
Free France 1940-1945 v0.30 has been uploaded. It includes the new Operation Vesuvius scenario as well as these changes:
Wonderful, now that's some good news!
First look at this scenario, feedback for its first parts (until the Frenchies do show up for the landing): 
Move the cam over Bonifacio (in the SE) as you’re talking about it… (the player is still discovering the map at that point) 
Well, it’s more about destroying or, at least, disabling them, right? (They’ll be blown up as other structures a little later.) So, a little adaptation here… Spawn it on the hex very close to both spawned OSS units, under AI control but as purely “static”, just for the duration of one entire turn, before it disappears again (being simply exited by triggers)… 
the western one stays (whether it was already damaged by the fights or not)… 
For events “Divisione Cremona” and “Key Roadblocks”, move the cam, switch focus… first over these Italian that have now joined us, then over some nice spot more near the center of the island… if we don't tickle them a little, they are satisfied with a few artillery shots... 
which does not make the defense of Ajaccio very difficult at all! increase their aggressivity level, or putting them to S&D rather, in order to increase the interest of this part as well as a little the challenge too… We’ve a somehow worrisome secondary objective already checked: “Do not lose Bastia”… well, ok… but it’s at the extreme opposite of the island, it’s under shadow of war, it’s under Italian flag (well, this may be fine due to the presence of some Italian allies there), there is no unit under our command there… 
adding one unit of Tabors (to have a total of 6 of them) and giving some name to them: 2 units called “1er Tabor Marocains (Goumiers)”, 2 units “6e Tabor Marocains (Goumiers)” and the last 2 “15e Tabor Marocains (Goumiers)”… Sadly enough, only the later is just a little too long for being properly displayed… 
a “15. Tabor Marocains (Goumiers)” would do the trick… then, by overall coherence, perhaps just the number everywhere before “Tabor” or the number followed by a point before “Tabor”? 
complete their name as the “1er Tirailleurs Marocains”. (These would be properly displayed, I’ve made the test.) But instead of 2 units of them, perhaps only 1 B1 but 1 Somua as well? perhaps be named “69e Rgt Artillerie de Montagne” (this would be properly displayed, I’ve made the test). Motto of “1er Tirailleurs Marocains” is “Le Premier Partout” (=”The First One Everywhere”). Well, first of all, they were paratroopers and commandos ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1er_batai ... te_de_choc - to be translated using online Tools as this time it hasn't even some sort of equivalent in English... Well, see next post about them!), but we’ve a problem there as the French don’t have any commando unit within OoB… What to choose? The later is the more discrete one, the less obviously non-French unit… besides, we know that commando units in OoB have difficulties to hold a frontline (it’s not their job anyway)… but that shouldn’t be an issue at all as now we should have a 6th unit of Goumiers (represented by the excellent model of Gurkhas within this campaign), an unit perfectly able to hold some frontline. So this shouldn't unbalance the scenario at all. these 2 units of “Bataillon de Choc” (like “Shock Battalion”) represented by the SAS model? Does that sounds good enough? Perhaps this unit does deserve an short but cool and immersive event, by the way?! As I have written in the previous post:
Now, there should be enough relevant info to build-up some cool and immersive event, as well as putting them as SAS (from which they were - strongly - inspired).
There is a timer so that when "Breakthrough at Tebaga" happens, the reserve tank brigades are delayed before being offered to the player. The reason is, I don't want the reserves immediately thrown into the battle on top of activating XXX Corps on the Mareth Line. Let's have a few turns to see how the battle goes first, since the player must decide to split the reserves between two roads on either side of the mountains, or concentrate them on one road or the other.jeffoot77 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:33 am Feeback for Mareth line scenario : nearly perfect !! Awesome map! Very well done with many choices and possibles encirclements. The only problem is the tanks support by the est-side, the tanks are too slow and can't never arrive in time to help by the north.
One idea to improve the scenario : why not the possibility to destroy the italian supply fleet ? a kind of enemy supply fleet chase instead of make them vanish ?
I am going to drive up my post count by answering some of your comprehensive feedback individually, because the alternative of trying to answer it in an annotated, bold blue font reply is too time-consuming given this length. All of which feedback is most appreciated, believe me.
The way I learned it, a title is capitalized if it is followed by the person's name. Such as Admiral Portier, who was an active admiral before becoming de Gaulle's (fictional) chief of staff.ColonelY wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:51 am Intro messages:
2/5: The 2nd word “King” may appear with a capital letter…
3/5:
4/5: Then move the cam back (as focus back on Corsican resistants)
Ah, very good. You know where this came about? Of course not, so I will tell you. Originally, it was "capture" but two things subsequently happened. By the time the player takes Calvi, capturing coastal guns would perhaps become a bit tedious, so I decided to "capture" those coastal guns automatically. Then, the action around Bastia came into focus; how would those guns be "captured"? (The OSS Operational Groups are long gone by then.) So, those guns became an objective to destroy. Which lead to the further thought: Why were we capturing these guns, anyway? They would not be used, given the flow of the battle eastward. So "capture" became "destroy" for all of them but I forgot the mission description for the very first set of guns near Ajaccio. Fixed, thanks.ColonelY wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:51 am Very first pri obj txt, the “Ajaccio uprising in 6 turns” ends with “[…] in order to capture them.”
I had this very thought. Casabianca appeared as you describe, when the additional OSS units landed. The problem was, I could not get it to disappear and I did not want it to be floating around, doing nothing for many turns. No matter what I did, I could not figure why it would not go away. Frankly, this type of thing happens - not often, but occasionally - and sometimes it's me, and sometimes it's the game. In this case, hey, it's called the "Ghost Submarine," isn't it? It made its drop and swiftly departed.ColonelY wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:51 am Together with events “Uprising Continues” and “Ghost Submarine”…
When they’re triggered, I think it would be a splendid opportunity to let this Ghost Submarine make its very first apparition on this battlefield (moreover because you’re mentioning it and the fact that this sub brings men, the OSS, on the island)…
This may be one of those times when "sometimes it's the game," as I said above.
Well, as an easy solution, one can always simply remove this coastal gun...
So if it stays problematic, better simply removing it completely...
