P210 wrote: Mon Aug 27, 2018 7:54 am
Some feedback. 1.32 exe does not work with v1.9. For example, it immediately triggers several scripts in beginning of Barbarossa turn one. Vichy France, Leningrad siege etc. 1.30 works perfectly.
Yeah, Intenso told me about this, even though I still did not have the time to check it out. The next version of this mod which I work on uses PzC v1.31 anyway, and that one looks flawless so far.
Still I have a feeling that it would be better to have Budabest, Bucharest and Helsinki on the upgrade city list.
I have already added Helsinki to the list. However, for some reason only to the single player version until now. But I will add it to the multiplayer version as well.
I am not so sure about Budapest and Bucharest. Especially Bucharest is much closer to the frontline of Army Group South and I think it would be weird if players would send their German tank units and other equipment to Romania for upgrade.
I believe equipment availability schedule is somewhat delayed in v1.9 in order to simulate actual appearance of new stuff in field. I do have constant feeling of lagging behind in arms race with soviets due to longer upgrade cycle.
In v1.9 most German equipment shows up around 1-2 month after they became historically available. There are some exceptions, though, for example the towed 7.5cm PaK 40 AT gun becomes available after enough had been produced historically. Altough produced from early 1942, initial production was farily low with less than 200 produced per month and it was not until October/November of that year that the first 1.000 examples were produced and production only exceeded 500 per month from January 1943.
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waf ... anonen.htm
And in this mod a towed AT gun unit represents 1.000 actual AT guns. So whereas in the base game this unit is available from February (right after its production started), in my mod it only becomes available from late August, which is even a bit too early. I believe that the slow initial production of this AT gun had a major role in the Axis defeats during the 42-43 Soviet winter offensives. The Germans just did not have enough to equip there own units with this AT gun and they could give even less, if any, to their Romanian, Hungarian and Italian allies. And it was basically the only really effective weapon against the frontal armour of the T-34 and KV tanks. So these armies were doomed.
Negative effects. I did encounter unwanted equipment upgrade. StuG B in Dresden automatically changed to StuG G. Should this happen only in Berlin? I really miss my artillery
This Marder upgrade from tanks (and StuG) feature is good and realistic, but it should happen only in one city.
I am aware of this issue and will look into it. Currently due to the limited number of AI zones I cannot really fix it.
We have to wait for the fixed 1.32 executable or I might try to allocate another AI zone for that purpose. But that would come at a cost elsewhere.
I wish that there would not be too many artificial restrictions for Finns in next version. Maybe taking train, air and ship transports away would suffice.
For now I only added these. But realistically there should be more. May or may not add them later.
I do have minor change proposals. I would swap the initiative value order between Pak 38 and Pak 97/38. Latter used mainly low velocity heat ammunition and therefore the effective range was relatively short against tanks and in contrast the Pak 38 is a very high velocity gun. Also I would like to boost towed AT effectiveness in ambushes (mainly thinking later part of the war). Therefore I suggest initiative 7 for Pak 40, 6 for Pak 38 and 5 for Pak 97/38 (for all countries that used these).
I will consider this. But then it may effect similar AT guns of the Allies as well. For example British 17 pdr has currently ini 7. So then it should maybe go up to 8. Which may or may not be too high.
It would also be nice if Italy had some AT available through the whole war.
Yes, I think they could have the PaK 40 as well like the other minor Axis nations. Especially now, that these can only be bought at certain places.
I also sent you a Private Message. Please check your inbox.
Nevertheless, I am finishing the next version which will bring a lot of changes. I wrote about the road map and the possible improvements in my previous post. But all these will take time.
