I know it's unlikely these answers will arrive at their destination after so many months, but I feel obligated to thank at least some of the kind people who leave their posts here during my leave.
redforest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:50 pm
I just wanted to say, I'm a few scenarios into this and it's awesome. these scenarios are better and more interesting than a lot of official dlc scenarios I've played. it's so much more fun to use weak units and slowly build them up, and use air, naval and ground forces together in the same scenario. the spec tree is cool too. thanks.
Wow, thank you for your kind words, reforest. I'm clearly not worthy of so much praise, but It pleases me so you had some fun with my little creature
. The slow build-up of the core force is one of the aspects I enjoy more of OoB kind of games, while the combined arms warfare is one of the strong point of OoB compared with similar titles, so I tried to take advantage of both in the mod/campaign: very glad it worked, at least for you, mate. Again thanks a lot!
CPI986 wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 11:27 pm
Good eve to all! I hope this mod remains well in hand with the development, it plays fantastically. Keep up the pace with this mod, it is truly grand!
Well, thank you so much for the positive feedback, CPI986, very happy you liked it
Nordlingen1634 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:24 pm
I have reached the end, until El Jarama and I congratulate the developer a million times. Very well done the setting, historically successful, geographically well represented, strategically impeccable. Great, good job.
Only two objections.
The Battle of Jarama was the first massive confrontation of the war, the columns became brigades and the EPR (People's Army of the Republic) was militarized in Mixed Brigades. The Tabores (battalions) of the GFRI (Group of Regular Indigenous Forces) gained notoriety alongside the Banderas de La Legión, both elite infantry compared to any other unit. Especially La Legión, a unit not understood by anyone not Spanish. This unit cannot be treated as normal infantry, it is not only an incorrectness, it is also serious ignorance. I am not insulting, I understand that it is something very Spanish, and no one has obligation to know. The Spanish Legion is a very unique unit, and has little in common with the French Legion, with which it is often confused.
I say all this because when it comes to making a game about the Spanish civil war, you have to know very well about the kind of infantry that the African Legion and Tabores were. A separate infantry, different, very professional units with equivalent command.
You cannot give the same combat values to a regular infantry unit, made up of recruits or volunteers, as to a Legionarios or Regulares (Regulares is today an elite Spanish infantry corps, the most decorated corps in the army). No one would give a US Marine or Japanese SNLF unit the same combat values than a someone else regular infantry unit.
I just wanted to say this, thank you.
Ey, Nordlingen, thank you very much too for your feedback. First of all, let me be clear I take no offense in any of your comments, on the contrary, I think you raised very valid points, and I don’t disagree with at all regarding the core of your reasoning: both Regulars and Legion Flags were high-quality infantry units, much better than anything the Republicans could put in the battlefield during 1936. They were used very effectively as assault troops in the offensive northbound from Andalusia to Madrid during these first months, and there was a huge difference in terms of training, experience, equipment AND command between these formations and the best loyalist forces at that moment. Said that, I also think this gap was going to be almost closed during the mid and late stages of the war, step by step, as the Republican infantry improved in all these aspects: during the Teruel or the Ebro offensives, for example, the Republican were able to field very good infantry units, only lacking in the intermediate-command level: during all the war the Nationalists always had better lieutenants, captains, etc… than the Republicans.
When I began with the mod, I had to make some design decisions regarding how I was to organize the infantry units of both sides. The thing with playing the Spanish Civil War from the Republican point of view in a game like OoB is that, as you said in a previous message
Nordlingen1634 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:31 am
A campaing from the nationalist perspective it would have been much more flexible and easy to do, in my modest opinion. But that`s fine anyway.
In other words, a Nationalist perspective fits better with the traditional OoB-like gameplay: a small but better offensive army facing a larger enemy, partially static, with worse units. But since I wanted to try the Republican POV this time, I had to figure out how to make fun playing with the “horde”. I opted for using the militia as the main republican infantry, which is clearly a worse version of the regular infantry; therefore even when the player has access to purchase the regular infantry, he will had to rely partially in auxiliar militia units: in many points of the campaing, you have more infantry units (most of them militias) than the Nationalists, and will have to swarm them, cutting the supply lines of the advancing enemy columns, etc… I am only partially happy with the result, but at least I think it works well enough. Answering to your concern, if the Nationalists had even better infantry (making the Legion a sort of Marine units, for example), would make much more difficult for me to balance the difficulty/fun with those overpowered units. At the end you have to compromise a bit between historicity and fun, I guess :/
What I did, though, in the late scenarios (when the republican infantry core units are competent at last) was to try using 3 and more stars for at least some Legion and Regular units, aming to “simulate” the excellency of these units with the experience trait . Specifically in the final double scen (Brunete) there is a secondary objective which includes dealing with several 4-starred infantry units.
Finally, let me add that although maybe it is not obvious since i’m developing the mod in english, I am, indeed, spanish, therefore i was more or less aware of the reputation of the Legion. For this same reason you can be as demanding and strict as you wish in your criticisms, which are very welcomed and I am very thankful for
Un abrazo, compatriota / A hug, fellow spaniard
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