Slitherine

Thank you very much for this Mod. I just started playing and finding it very challenging and fun to play.

It is a pleasure.

As for the difficulty: setting it correctly is still the hardest part for me. For some players it can be very challenging, for others it could be even harder as it is now. I think, at the moment, it is somewhat harder than the original German campaign played at the same difficulty level. Thus, if you want to achieve the same results, you might want to play it at a lower diffuculty level. (Or try harder ) The difficulty of the campaign is meant to be gradually increasing, but, as historically, things are getting really hairy from 1942-43 and onwards. Luckily, in the latest, v1.20 patch of PzC, the player can change difficulty setting during a campaign after every sceanrio, so if someone feels it is too hard he can lower the difficulty a bit. Prestige is usually low, so elite replacements are only recommended at the start of a scenario, when it is cheaper, in most cases.

Also, in this mod, in most cases, the player can continue the campaign even after losing a scenario. (But, he will get much less prestige points, if any.) I think, especially at higher difficulty levels, it is not possible to achieve DV in all of the scenarios, and an otherwise skilled and experienced player might even lose one or two scenarios. This is not in stark contrast with reality, as historically Hungary lost WW2 in the end, being one of the last allies of Germany. Still, all this can be changed by the succesful player.

I am on the Uman scenario now. I barely finished the Barbarrosa campaign with a Marginal victory on Colonel level. I might try it again on the same level but with a little different troop placement and movement. I do like the units and the terrain. Look forward to completing this one and any others you may have in the works.

Hi!

I downloaded the Turan campaign I made everything as it was in the install guide, but somehow after the first mission at the Don river, the program can not recognize further missions. Or if I would like to play scenarios after 1942, the program can not load the maps, I just see a black page. What can be the problem, how can solve it?
Thanks

My experience shows that the black/blank screen comes up when the game cannot find the neccessary scenario files. Please check if you have the Uryv.pzloc and Uryv.pzscn files (the files for the next scenario after Don river) in your \Panzer Corps\Data\ folder after installing the campaign with JSGME. These files (along with the later scenarios) are in the zip so they should be there after the installation.

Some people reported strange behaviour with JSGME under certain circumstances. It is possible that some files are not copied correctly. So, what I can reccommend is to manually check if you can find these files in the \Panzer Corps\Data\ folder, and if not, re-install or copy them manually from the zip.

Hi thanks for the help. I checked the files you mentioned are all there. Unfortunately they still don't work. :S
The only map I can start after the first Don mission is the Transylvania scenario. Any other ideas what to do?

Did you tried other mods (which uses GME too)? Did they work?

Did you tried the other starting points of the Turan campaign? Do they work?

philip87 wrote:Hi thanks for the help. I checked the files you mentioned are all there. Unfortunately they still don't work. :S
The only map I can start after the first Don mission is the Transylvania scenario. Any other ideas what to do?

Hi thanks for the help. I checked the files you mentioned are all there. Unfortunately they still don't work. :S
The only map I can start after the first Don mission is the Transylvania scenario. Any other ideas what to do?

Well, this is quite interesting, so I checked the scenario files and found that all the scenarios that you could start (from 1939 to Don + Transylvania) were last modified BEFORE 6th June, and those that you could not were last modified AFTER 17th June, this year. And I downloaded and installed the official v1.20 patch of Panzer Corps during the making of the Turan Campaign v1.1 on 6th June, just between those two dates. So it seems that you have a problem with starting those scenarios which I have modified and saved AFTER I had installed Panzer Corps v1.20.

Therefore I must assume that you are still using PzC v1.14 or earlier and that is why you cannot start the scenarios that I modified and saved with PzC v1.20, even though this version (or later) is requested to be used with the Turan campaign v1.1, as stated on the first page of this topic.

Thus I recommend you to update Panzer Corps to v1.20 (or later) and then try again. If you are already using v1.20, well..., then I have no clue.
Anyway, here is the earlier, v1.0 version of the Turan campaign, which should work with no problem as it was made with with an earlier version of PzC:

http://rapidshare.com/files/119630098/HunModv10.zip

This version is also playable to the end, just not as polished as the (currently) final v1.1.

I just finished watching the YouTube video, and all I can say is: Wow, talk about quality work! I play a lot of Silent Hunter, (mostly 3 and 5), so the ambient music really reminded me of some of my WWII era gramophone mods. For me, it really helps bring the game to life. Great job!!

Thanks,

Silent Hunter 3 is a big favourite of mine as well, I played a lot with it couple of years ago. Obviously with a modded version, and I had the WWII era tunes, too. Still my main inspiration was another old game called Operation Flashpoint, and the FDF (Finnish Defence Forces) mod for it. In it there were some WWII era Finnish songs played during the mission intros and altough I did not understand a word, it really added to the immersion. One such song is called "Njet Molotov" (No Molotov), which I find very fun and entertaining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pWcVxl9v6Y

I totally hear you on the immersion. There's just something about listening to the same music they listened to. It's almost magical in its ability to take you back.

Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed that. Although the one line about getting an ice cream in Helsinki made me chuckle. You'd think with all that snow something warmer might come to mind, but hey, each to his own.

Yeah, the song seems to suggest that the Soviets went to war with Finland in 1939 wishing to eat some cold ice cream, but the Finns greeted them with a rather warm welcome instead...

McGuba wrote:
Yeah, the song seems to suggest that the Soviets went to war with Finland in 1939 wishing to eat some cold ice cream, but the Finns greeted them with a rather warm welcome instead...

Yeah, it was supposed to be a walk-over but somebody forgot to tell the Fins...

I'm a big hockey fan, (born and raised in Canada), and it's often been said of all the hockey playing countries in the world, Finland is closest to our style of playing with a real physical edge. It kind of makes them our hockey cousins. So yeah, I admire their grit. They showed a ton of it during the Winter War and they still show it on the ice today.

Also, while we're on the subject, I find it interesting how often the Winter War ends up being a footnote in most history books. For me it depreciates its importance on subsequent world events. For example, if the Winter War had never happened how might Barbarossa have been impacted in 1941?

Would the Germans have been as eager to seize the opportunity to capitalize on perceived Russian weakness? Would the Russians have remained oblivious to their military shortcomings and delayed reforming the Red Army? Either way, the ripple effect from the Winter War seems huge.

Also, while we're on the subject, I find it interesting how often the Winter War ends up being a footnote in most history books.

I think it is not surprising at all - this war was much publicised in newspapers, newsreels, etc, as a battle of David vs. Goliath only until the Soviet Union became an ally of the Western Allies. And it was a very short period between 1940-41. 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' so they said, and from that point they just tried to quickly forget about this 'small local war' in which the British and the other Western Allies actually supported Finland in its defensive war against the mighty Soviet Union. And after WWII it was just somehow left like that. As a footnote at the bottom of the history books, for everyone's 'benefit'.

For example, if the Winter War had never happened how might Barbarossa have been impacted in 1941?
Would the Germans have been as eager to seize the opportunity to capitalize on perceived Russian weakness?

Probably to a much lesser extent.

Would the Russians have remained oblivious to their military shortcomings and delayed reforming the Red Army?

Probably yes.

Either way, the ripple effect from the Winter War seems huge.

Agreed. So it seems that the Soviets should be very thankful for the Finns for their determined defence.

McGuba wrote:I think it is not surprising at all - this war was much publicised in newspapers, newsreels, etc, as a battle of David vs. Goliath only until the Soviet Union became an ally of the Western Allies. And it was a very short period between 1940-41. 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' so they said, and from that point they just tried to quickly forget about this 'small local war' in which the British and the other Western Allies actually supported Finland in its defensive war against the mighty Soviet Union. And after WWII it was just somehow left like that. As a footnote at the bottom of the history books, for everyone's 'benefit'.

Yeah, you make a good point. It doesn't look good to trumpet the fact you became allies with a blatant aggressor. Which nicely explains why Western historians tend to sweep it under the rug. What was it Churchill said? Something along the lines of: 'If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.'

Agreed. So it seems that the Soviets should be very thankful for the Finns for their determined defence.

Life can be so ironic.

Dear Finland: Thank you very much for making us look so bad. Signed, Uncle Joe.

Hello everyone, i would just like to know if it is possible to make this mod work with the Steam release of PC. I tried installing it with GME and the Manual install (by copying the files) and while the game launches alright, as soon as i load up a scenario, the music goes all hairy (some *bleeps* and *bloops* happen) and soon after the game crashes.

I would like to say that i have tried all DMPs mods and the Italian Campaign mod and they all work fine with the Steam release. It seems only this one is giving me trouble so far.

Does anybody knows any way to fix that aparent sound error (although i suspect its not sound related)?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

It is indeed a sound related problem. Interestingly enough, while the earlier versions of PzC could handle mp3 files encoded with many codecs, the latest Steam version only seems to support certain codecs and if the game music is not encoded with these the game crashes.

So what you have to do is to overwrite the "battlefield.mp3" file in your "...\Panzer Corps\MODS\Hungarian Mod v1.1\Audio\Music\" folder with this corrected "battlefield.mp3" file, which is encoded with the right codec:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/qqoqc ... efield.mp3

And then you have to disable and reinstall the mod with the GME.

This should make the game run on the Steam version.


P.S.
I do plan to release an update to this mod as well, which, among other changes, would fix this known problem as well, but I still work on the next update for the Battlefield: Europe mod and I would release that one first. One at a time...

McGuba wrote:Hi,

It is indeed a sound related problem. Interestingly enough, while the earlier versions of PzC could handle mp3 files encoded with many codecs, the latest Steam version only seems to support certain codecs and if the game music is not encoded with these the game crashes.

As far i know Rudankort changed the sound engine for the steam version to improve compatibility and reduce the amount of sound problems but the new engine possibly don't have the ability to play some codecs the old one used to be able to play. Don't ask me tho if the change was/will be applied to the non Steam version.

Hello McGuba,

I wanted to play your campaign, but both of your download links are empty.

Greetings!

Hi,

I have reuploaded to Medifire:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/k8wi7 ... ranv11.zip

which should work for now. However, I am planning to update this version soon as I made some better icons in the meantime and this version is not compatible with the steam version of PzC, see as above.

Thank you!

Interesting story and it looks great!

After spending so much time to create icons and other stuff I found now the time to test/play some of the new mods from various modders.
In the meantime I loaded also your newest work, the "Battelfield", enough fun for the next month!


Greetings and keep up the fantastic work!