Potzblitz V26.01 OCT 26th 2025

[LepetitKipetchi]

Hello Robotron and happy new year to everybody,

I have played few games and I find the relationships between nations and the event management surprising : I played with the CP and in 4 or 5 games and each time, Italy joined Entente at the end of 1914 even when I played in easy and captured Paris, I have attached you my save if you can check please ?

Thanks again for everything you are doing !!!

[Robotron]

Oh dear...

I can see from my magic crystal ball of knowledge that you have saved the game 70 times and reloaded 57 times which has messed up the internal difficulty settings quite a bit.

Let me explain: I have included a function to "punish" players trying to cheat by repeatedly saving and reloading during the same turn: if you do this the game's difficulty keeps rising by 0,1 each time, so by saving and reloading during the same turn every 10 times the difficulty rises by 1 (from "easy" to "normal", then "hard" etc.) until, well the game becomes almost impossible to win because every combat result and every morale or alignment shift is negatively modified for the player by the difficulty setting.

I'll remove this feature in the next update for the easy setting so players can cheat to their heart's content when playing on easy.

[LepetitKipetchi]

Ahh guilty !
I prefer to save the game and reload when I play to get the best scenario I want, I admit. I didn't know about this evolution, you got me
I was getting completly crazy, so now I know I have to play slower and be sure about my moves if I want to finish a game, thanks

[imp44791]

Let me explain: I have included a function to "punish" players trying to cheat by repeatedly saving and reloading during the same turn

First of all, happy new year and thanks for the fantastic mod.

Here's my problem with this. I hate the fact that the game randomises results so much from the predicted ones; you know, predicted losses 1:0, actual losses 1:3. And of course the game saves the random seed, so reloading as such doesn't work - but the SEQUENCE of actions does. So, yes, occasionally I reload to find a sequence of actions that conforms more with the predicted losses ("Chess" in Panzer Corps-speak). If there were an option like in PzC of "chess" or (better) "dice chess" (limited randomisation), I would not feel the need to reload, ever.

Another unconnected matter. Aufmarsch Ost is one of my favourite "what if" simulations in all WW1 games. However in this game/mod it seems to me very hard for the German artillery to make an impression on Novo-Georgievsk and Osowiecz unless the fortresses are surrounded and then only after a few rounds of heavy losses. If the Germans did throw the bulk of their armies East, it would seem to me logical that the Krupp siege guns and even the Austrian 305s would have the same impact on the Russian forts that they had on the Liege ones. I am not really counting what happened in 1915 during the retreat, as the forts were understrength then, just contemplating a frontal siege assault on those two fronts during a hypothetical East First strategy in 1914. At the moment I am not even sure the Austrian Howitzer event is in the German deck under Aufmarsch Ost (but I may be wrong there).