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TJLionheart wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:22 pm Is there a plan to finish this series now, or is the plan to pursue the more aggressive Storm Over Europe first?

PC1 Grand campaign remake and Storm over europe are 2 diff teams.

current plan for PC1 remake is:
- working on 1943 NH

sers,
Thomas

Thank you for the update. At the risk of asking a dumb question, what is "NH"?

TJLionheart wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:10 pm Thank you for the update. At the risk of asking a dumb question, what is "NH"?

Non-Historical I believe.

Grondel wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 5:40 pm

TJLionheart wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:22 pm Is there a plan to finish this series now, or is the plan to pursue the more aggressive Storm Over Europe first?

PC1 Grand campaign remake and Storm over europe are 2 diff teams.

current plan for PC1 remake is:
- working on 1943 NH

sers,
Thomas

Hello Thomas, great to hear that.
I have one question about AfrikaKorps (NH): is there please any chance to fix the issue with Italians core units switched to german units in next update? I have experienced this problem before Syria (and earlier before air training mission as well but that was fixed already). Maybe it is connected to the fact that before Syria mission there are no IT units available for purchase...
Thank you and keep your great work please .

jira77 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 12:31 pm Hello Thomas, great to hear that.
I have one question about AfrikaKorps (NH): is there please any chance to fix the issue with Italians core units switched to german units in next update? I have experienced this problem before Syria (and earlier before air training mission as well but that was fixed already). Maybe it is connected to the fact that before Syria mission there are no IT units available for purchase...
Thank you and keep your great work please .

I am currently playing AC to correct minor issues. Will look at that as well.

sers,
Thomas

2 minor issues:

In Vyazma a deployment zone is missing.

In Moscow i have to fight YAK III, which are too soon for 1941. Even my Spitfire 2 with 3 Heroes has no chance, i think yak I would be correct, 1941.

Started a new GC39 campaign today. It is starting at Danzig Corridor rather than Poznan. Has Poznan, with its starting units, been dropped?

charge62 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:19 pm Started a new GC39 campaign today. It is starting at Danzig Corridor rather than Poznan. Has Poznan, with its starting units, been dropped?

No, It still starts on Poznan. Just tried it and Poznan is the starting scenario for 1939.

Figured it out. This occurs on the campaign splash page.

When I click on "Start Grand Campaign 1939" then click on "PROCEED" all is good.

When I click on "PROCEED" without clicking the campaign, it starts in Danzig.

Completed GC39

Good use of leaders and over-strength to change up mission dynamics. Altogether enjoyable.

Lillehammer: Spitfires weren't committed to combat until they flew combat missions to cover Operation Dynamo. At no time were they based outside Britain until after the Battle of Britain. The only fighter command squadrons deployed to Norway were 263 (Gladiator II) and 46 (Hurricane I). 263 was destroyed entirely serving in central Norway, rebuilt in Britain, then deployed to northern Norway. 46 Squadron arrived after 263 was rebuilt. One unit of Gladiator II fighters should be all the RAF has in Lillehammer.

Narvik: Hurricane Is were ferried from Britain to Norway on Glorious and eventually 8 surviving Hurricanes landed on Glorious during the evacuation. This does not equate to Glorious conducting combat flight operations with Hurricanes in 1940. There should be a squadron of Hurricanes and another of Gladiator IIs at Narvik. Glorious should be flying Swordfish only.

In order to achieve the level of difficulty you seem to be aiming for, I suggest making the above changes, then reduce the German core slots available.

"charge62"... i don't have personal knowledge of your posting, but!... if it iscorrect... then!... this is astonishing investigative work done by you!. Keep it up!.

@charge 62

With release of Pacific dlc i expect majyor changes to sea battles and will have to rebalance all scenarios with ships in it. Will take ur information into account. thx a lot for ur feed back.

sers,
Thomas

Started replaying 1943 again. I noticed that I jump from the Belgorod scenario into the Suny training and then onto the Kursk options. The old campaign tree had Orel in there. Did I miss something, or was that one taken out?

Thanks.

88Flak wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:19 pm Started replaying 1943 again. I noticed that I jump from the Belgorod scenario into the Suny training and then onto the Kursk options. The old campaign tree had Orel in there. Did I miss something, or was that one taken out?

Thanks.

The "Orel" scenario is still in but after "Prokhorovka"

Thoughts on GC40 and GC41:

GC40:

There is a basic problem when a land based force is confronted with naval assets. PC had the same basic problem and "solved" it by turning level bombers into effective anti-surface navy forces. Not historical at all. PC2 has limited the effectiveness of level bombers somewhat by allowing suppression, but the basic problem remains.

Once the remaining Northern allied forces were pinned against the English Channel, naval and air forces really made themselves felt. Thus the player's main ground forces, become less relevant, which is a turn off for the player base.

Calais and Dunkirk might be better thought of a single two-part mission. I suggest building the naval and air fight beginning in Calais and carrying it through to Dunkirk. Introducing the bombers during Calais.

During Calais, have more Hurricanes flying from Southern English fields and put a single field on the edge of the map, with a new squadron showing up every turn or two as reinforcements. Add Luftwaffe bomber formations, flying from the East. The player can use his fighters as escorts.

Then in Dunkirk expand the non-players air assets, again from the East. But then add two wrinkles. First, give the player no starting airfields permitting fighters to range out over the Channel. The player then must push North to seize fields that can support escort fighters for the bombers. Second, limit the player's ground force size. Player forces must then try to punch through to Dunkirk, not with a broad attack, but instead with a rapier thrust.

RAF support of Dynamo can add two airfields to the Northern border of the map, this time including Spitfires, and adding new squadrons as the initial units are chewed up. Try to capture the intensity of the air battle for both sides.

For the allied forces, give them entrenchments at least for some positions and include light AT and AA support for those positions. The dug in covering forces protecting the Dynamo evacuation fought hard and there is no reason not to include that in the scenario.

Concerning RAF in the Battle of France, here is an extract of a very large set of spreadsheets I created while researching RAF Fighter Command squadrons before and during the Battle of Britain. This information is at least 10 years old, so more data may now be available.


https://www.mediafire.com/file/eamm8l2z ... e.jpg/file

I believe Churchill's initial authorization was for 120 Hurricanes (10 squadrons) to be sent to France. More were added as replacements or partial squadron commitments. Only 66 Hurricanes returned to Britain after France surrendered. Note there are no Spitfires. As for the Spitfire IIs used as a cache reward, I doubt there were more than a handful of prototypes in Britain at the time of the Battle of France. Perhaps use more French recon equipment as rewards instead.

/ / /

GC41:

Crete has the same kinds of considerations as Calais and Dunkirk. I liked your interpretation of the naval invasion, much better than in the original GC41. It seems to assume the naval assault caught the British unaware and thus avoids the problem of assuming Italian naval forces could show up and perform well in a sustained engagement over several days.

Vyazma, Moscow, Demyansk are brilliant. Much better than PC or PC2. Vyazma is true slog. I made it much worse for myself, because I had taken the Trench Slog malus when setting up my leader. Ouch. Moscow was pretty standard fare until the near the end. Demyansk was a pleasant combination of history and puzzle. I call it a puzzle because it required a change of perspective from all the preceding fights.

Error: In Zhurivka, the defending unit in the town Shevchenkove (7,17) is Wehr Infanterie and should probably be a Soviet Regular.

Soviet Su-6 AA is not appropriate for the time frame. Only four were built and they were use for training. In 1941 Soviet AA should be predominantly towed. The Soviets didn't achieve broad mechanization and motorization until the American equipment pipeline was flowing. So increased use of Soviet built SPAAG in 1942, then a dramatic increase in SPAAG in mid-1943. Still, towed AA should be present throughout the war in Soviet formations, especially infantry units. SPAAG would be more often found in armor units and in the Shock and Guards armies.

I completed Kharkov'42...when I got to the victory screen, when I clicked the advance to the next scenerio I got the following Error Message and could not proceed after multiple attempts:

Invalid Scenerio Path.../game/Campaigns/GC1942/03 simferopol/simferopol.map

Thanks Resolute. I must have forgotten - haven't played in a while.

I know things have been busy fixing bugs and tweaking the campaigns. The work you're doing on these is nothing short of phenomenal. It gives a completely different flavor to the game than the AO campaigns.

Are we anywhere in the ballpark of having 1944 East available? Thanks.

@david hansen

that error usually occurs when the mod is not activated in the mod-manager.

sers,
Thomas

Just ran into something odd for the first time. I've played 1943 several times, but this time after I completed Dnepropetrovsk and hit continue to move on to the next scenario, the game seems to get about 25% loaded and it stops responding.

I can go back and reload any and all previous saves, but it seems to be roadblocked when trying to load Kremenchug. I went back to a previously saved Dnepropetrovsk that I played months ago and the same thing. Then I tried to load a turn 0 Kremenchug from months ago and the same thing.

Ideas?

Thanks.