Panzer Corps East - The struggle for Russia "Grand Strategy"

[VPaulus]

Welcome mike, and your English is good.
Please we really appreciate the input of everybody.

[Chris10]

Great job, especially the implementation of the SS-Eiheiten is great. I watch almost every day on your job, but I rarely leave a comment time. I think it goes so many other people like that. So Do not be discouraged. For my bad English, I beg your apology.

there is nothing to apologize...thnx for your comment and its always encouraging when poeple who usually dont post are commenting as it shows that there is indeed some interest and its a good sign for me as it sort of confirms that I move in the right direction at least....
btw for a lot of people here and on other forums english is not our first language and during time I learned that a constant forum activity on english speaking boards is actually helping to improve language skills...so...feel free to comment,rate,asking or suggesting...more input is always better input..

[Chris10]

Panzercorps East introduces
The A-20 Douglas from the lend lease agreements
2900 of thee have been delivered to the USSR so expect plenty of them throwing stuff on your boys

[nikivdd]

Panzercorps East introduces
The A-20 Douglas from the lend lease agreements
2900 of thee have been delivered to the USSR so expect plenty of them throwing stuff on your boys

Cool. Capitalist bombers have their use to pound the enemies of the Motherland:)

[Chris10]

The Oberkommando of the Luftwaffe announces that
it will make a new plane type available after the initial assault...
hardware which was forgotton in some software file on some harddrive...
so I only had to throw the existing skins on it and render it out...

with that said the Henschel HS-129 B-1 can be officially considered implemented with proper size unit icon and big unit..all in east front camo...model uses vanilla animations..the AirCannons1 perfectly fit.


I can render the plane as a HS-129 B3/Wa with the 7,5cm cannon too but it turned out that the weapon was to heavy for the plane and while divebombing and firing the gun the recoil was pushing the plane quickly into the area were the pilot had to drop the weapon cause the plane were going into a spin and anyway only 25 have been built

[Chris10]

The Oberkommando der Marine (OKM)
reports that the Battleship Tirpitz is on trial in the Baltic Sea and will be ready to provide support for Operation Barbarossa later this year in order to prevent a breakout of the Soviet Baltic Fleet from Leningrad. For this reason the Tirpitz will be supported by several other vessels to assure our total control of the Baltic Sea and the Finland Straight

[airbornemongo101]

Nice.

Good job

[Chris10]

PANZERCORPS EAST presents REAL TERRAIN LIVING MAPS
featuring as close as possible all real rivers, towns, forests, mountains, major roads, rails and swamp areas as they have been back then...including all city and river names

MAP SCALE IS 10KM-HEX
which can be nicely observed in the distance Berlin-Stettin= 120 KM = 12 Hex from Berlin center to Stettin

this excerpt shows Berlin and part of east-germany and is only a tiny fraction of whats up to come...I still going to rework
the map and overlays to get rid of the hundreds of rails stations popping out of the citys and replace towns with more appropiate town images...
These will be the most advanced maps for Panzercorps until now...

[airbornemongo101]

Cool

[El_Condoro]

These will be the most advanced maps for Panzercorps until now...

Wow - you have set a high bar for yourself. I wish you luck!
There are a number of us who have been looking for new tiles (villages, famous bridges, ruins etc etc) but those with the ability have not had the time. Are you planning to do some tiles like that?

[Chris10]

These will be the most advanced maps for Panzercorps until now...

Wow - you have set a high bar for yourself. I wish you luck!
There are a number of us who have been looking for new tiles (villages, famous bridges, ruins etc etc) but those with the ability have not had the time. Are you planning to do some tiles like that?

"Advanced" in the way that the map feels more alive and not so sterile or generic like so many maps even in the main game and not much because of fancy terrain tiles ...I use Massis WWII pack which is plenty to work with if one arranges the overlays nicely...I only added 1 tile to the background tiles in sand-color in order to give certain areas a sandy background were the eternal green (why da heck there are so many green background tiles anyway?) would not be appropiate or to use this background in areas with less vegetation and around mountains...

[El_Condoro]

I use Massi's pack, too and it helps a lot but, like you, I find the background tiles are too similar and don't allow for much variation. I think that's why maps look similar. Anyway, looking forward to your map.

[4kEY]

I try hard to create a setting where the player faces a relative exact scaled size of russian forces in order to understand the problem the Wehrmacht was dealing with after the lend lease really took effect and the russian industry was pulling out more and more cheap and quick-made equipment made by forced labor (those who didnt work did not got food stamps) while mass conscripting division after division riding US trucks,wearing US made uniforms and boots while eating US made canned food...Until today It is totally hushed up and ignored in Russia what the impact of the lend lease really was and those who studied the original contracts and deliverys will be gobsmacked about the sheer amount of material (over 500.000 US trucks,over 2000 ! locomotives) which in fact were responsible for keeping up the russian logistics in the war industry otherwise the factorys would not have been able to produce these amounts cause where there is no transport there is no production...as a comparison the russian production of locomotives for 1941 was 90 !!..same goes for class A plane fuel..Russia had oil but was unable to refine the fuel needed for their air force just like the arabic countrys today produce oil but have to import fuel as they dont produce fuel...Literally all class A plane fuel from 1942 onwards was US delivered and the list goes on and on...
I try to give the player the possibility to really find out if these obstacles could have been overcome by the Wehrmacht or not...of course only as far as this is possible in an abstract hex wargame

Look forward to playing your mod.

[Chris10]

PANZERCORPS EAST
revealing secrets....

I find the background tiles are too similar and don't allow for much variation.

I think that solves big part of the problem as underlaying these to forests, countryside or swamps will allow for a much more realistic coloring of certain areas like swamp,tundra or countryside in deep russia or even in desert,what you think?

[El_Condoro]

That's much better! Are you willing to share your file - I could use some of those, especially for beaches and shallow water.

[Chris10]

That's much better! Are you willing to share your file - I could use some of those, especially for beaches and shallow water.

Sure thing...nearly all assets I may create/collect/merge during developement will be made available for everybody to use once Iam releasing Panzercorps East

[Uhu]

Very interesting information, thanks for it!

..after the lend lease really took effect and the russian industry was pulling out more and more cheap and quick-made equipment made by forced labor (those who didnt work did not got food stamps) while mass conscripting division after division riding US trucks,wearing US made uniforms and boots while eating US made canned food...Until today It is totally hushed up and ignored in Russia what the impact of the lend lease really was and those who studied the original contracts and deliverys will be gobsmacked about the sheer amount of material (over 500.000 US trucks,over 2000 ! locomotives) which in fact were responsible for keeping up the russian logistics in the war industry otherwise the factorys would not have been able to produce these amounts cause where there is no transport there is no production...as a comparison the russian production of locomotives for 1941 was 90 !!..same goes for class A plane fuel..Russia had oil but was unable to refine the fuel needed for their air force just like the arabic countrys today produce oil but have to import fuel as they dont produce fuel...Literally all class A plane fuel from 1942 onwards was US delivered and the list goes on and on...

[Chris10]

PANZERCOPRS EAST PRESENTS

[VPaulus]

Chris, that's not the correct Slovak flag for the Slovak Republic (1939-1945).
Or it would be without any symbol or then you would have to adopt the war flag:
http://www.fotw.net/flags/sk-ww2.html

As for the Finnish, that's the state flag, the national flag doesn't have any symbol.

Not that this is important, but if you want I've made those flags (the round button and the flag itself) for Augustin's Slovak campaign and now I've made also the Finnish for Nico's Red Fury campaign.

[Chris10]

Chris, that's not the correct Slovak flag for the Slovak Republic (1939-1945).
Or it would be without any symbol or then you would have to adopt the war flag:
http://www.fotw.net/flags/sk-ww2.html

As for the Finnish, that's the state flag, the national flag doesn't have any symbol.

Not that this is important, but if you want I've made those flags (the round button and the flag itself) for Augustin's Slovak campaign and now I've made also the Finnish for Nico's Red Fury campaign.

You are right and you are wrong , Paulo
I accidentally took the modern slovakian (and Finland) flag instead the one I was thinking of...silly me...anyway,the slovakian state of war flag was not the one you think but this: So if your up to it throw a new slovakian flag and button out to correct your tiny little error for the slovakian campaign.. ...and I will humbly accept your contribution if you pass the slovakian and finish symbols thru...