CEaW Grand Strategy Expansion Player's Manual

[rkr1958]

http://web.me.com/amcdonel/CEaW-GS/Welcome.html

Book Boss for all this is Alec MacDonell.

We're posting a link to a working draft of our user's manual, player's guide and more for the general community to see. All of this is still a work in progress but I think captures most of the changes made by our mod. I think you'll see the tremendous number of changes that we've made.

We encourage the community in general to read and provide questions or comments. Again ... remember this is still a draft with a number of sections still to be written.

We also want to use this thread to capture those comments and questions for the development and testing teams.

[kuchynka]

Manual is great


Suggestion:

Limited ship attack against ground hexes same as limited air attack.

Reinforcing units only out contact with enemy.

[ncali]

Hi guys - great job with the mod update and draft manual. Very professional! I'm looking forward to trying it out.

[Blathergut]

Manual looks cool. Do you want comments for little things like typos and wordos and such?

[ncali]

By the way, I noticed the new Italian surrender conditions. I assume the 3 Italian cities are starting cities. Do they include North Africa? I'm guessing they do - and Allied control of North Africa + (Sicily or Sardinia) = surrender. Am I right?

[pk867]

Hi,

The short answer is no. The allied player does not have to capture North Africa or Sardina to force a surrender by capturing 3 cities from this list you can force a surrender.
List of cities- Genoa, Milan, Venice, Florence, Taranto, Naples, Messina, Palermo, Turin, Ancona.

pk867

[rkr1958]

Manual looks cool. Do you want comments for little things like typos and wordos and such?

Absolutely!

[amcdonel]

Certainly - please feel free to provide corrections and edits. It is still in draft -- so please be gentle

alec

[amcdonel]

A new graphic showing the Italian cities that meet the criteria has just been added to the manual. I will be posting v20 of the manual in a bit...

[rkr1958]

By the way, I noticed the new Italian surrender conditions. I assume the 3 Italian cities are starting cities. Do they include North Africa? I'm guessing they do - and Allied control of North Africa + (Sicily or Sardinia) = surrender. Am I right?

Any three of these cities will force an Italian surrender. North Africa isn't included. These cities are located on mainland Italy + Sicily.

ITALIAN_CITIES_NEEDED 3 /* Number of Italian cities needed to capture to enforce surrender */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_0 5511 /* Genoa */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_1 5580 /* Milan */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_2 5868 /* Venice */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_3 5728 /* Florence */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_4 6383 /* Taranto */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_5 6022 /* Naples */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_6 6028 /* Messina */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_7 5813 /* Palermo */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_8 5365 /* Turin */
SURRENDER_CITY_HEX_ITALY_9 6017 /* Ancona */


Oh! I see both Paul and Alec have already answered this one. I need to read further down before responding.

[rkr1958]

Manual is great

Thanks. Alec is doing a fantastic job pulling it together. It's amazing how professional it looks ... isn't it. He's a wizard!

Suggestion:

Limited ship attack against ground hexes same as limited air attack.

Air attacks are limited to two per hex. I really don't see that limiting naval attacks against ground hexes to two per hex would make that much difference. I can't remember the last time I attacked a ground unit with more than two naval units.

Reinforcing units only out contact with enemy.

This would be an issue for units in forts and cities. I believe this would make it too easy to capture fort hexes like the Gustov line or Leningrad or critical cites, such as Paris, Rome or Moscow.

[trulster]

Are you able to mod the joining of minor countries based upon territorial conquest?

If so a possibility would be to have Turkey join the Axis if Axis control the Soviet hexes on the Turkish border, modelling that Germany have the Russians on the ropes and Turkey would want a piece of the pie. Also gives Russia a even bigger incentive to defend the Caucasus mountains.

Another thing, if Axis control Turkey, then the Africa supply rules should not be in effect, at least when Cairo is Axis controlled.

[pk867]

Hi,

Minor countries will join the opposing major power when a DoW on the minor has been declared.
As for Turkey joining Germany, that is a political event which probably would not have happened.

In the example you gave, Turkey may want to join the allies instead of being swallowed up by Germany.
Turkey may have been leaning toward the Axis, but they stayed neutral throughout the war.
Of course if Germany Dow'ed on Turkey, supply would be able to be traced through Istanbul.
The Malta supply rules are always in effect. The amount of supply is controlled through the number of ports
controlled, Gibraltar , Malta, and the British Naval presence.
We changed the map to simulate the coast road. The Desert and Dune were moved closer to the coast. Also the supply level in North Africa Clear = 3, Desert & Desert hills = 2, and Dune = 1. So you are limited in your capabilities since you can only repair up to your supply limit. We also did this with other terrain types on the board. The charts explain the maximum supply level by type of terrain. So you maybe able to rail into a supply level 3 hex adjacent to a city,
(eg: Clear in N.Africa, Mountain elsewhere) but you will not be able to rail out of because you at least need level 4 or higher to rail out of.

You are going to have to reconsider your strategies to accomplish your goals in the game.

Regards,

pk867

[amcdonel]

Team,

I just posted an updated copy of the manual. It is still numbered v21, but have 2 new pieces of information: (1) picture of Italian cities that qualify to create Italian surrender, and (2) a new amphibious transport and invasion limit.

Thanks for reviewing it and your comments!!

alec

[amcdonel]

http://web.me.com/amcdonel/CEaW-GS/Welcome.html

Book Boss for all this is Alec MacDonell.

We're posting a link to a working draft of our user's manual, player's guide and more for the general community to see. All of this is still a work in progress but I think captures most of the changes made by our mod. I think you'll see the tremendous number of changes that we've made.

We encourage the community in general to read and provide questions or comments. Again ... remember this is still a draft with a number of sections still to be written.

We also want to use this thread to capture those comments and questions for the development and testing teams.

How can you help us? Please post URL to in-depth or interesting historical accounts of WW II battles and strategies. These should be somewhat special and very interesting to CEaW-GS players (What I am trying to say is NOT to pass on general info links on WW II history - make them good to support CEaW-GS manual play). I can embed them as links in this manual, thus, making it a richer and more specific aid to the new and experienced player.

Thanks in advance!!

alec

[rkr1958]

http://web.me.com/amcdonel/CEaW-GS/Welcome.html

Book Boss for all this is Alec MacDonell.

We're posting a link to a working draft of our user's manual, player's guide and more for the general community to see. All of this is still a work in progress but I think captures most of the changes made by our mod. I think you'll see the tremendous number of changes that we've made.

We encourage the community in general to read and provide questions or comments. Again ... remember this is still a draft with a number of sections still to be written.

We also want to use this thread to capture those comments and questions for the development and testing teams.

How can you help us? Please post URL to in-depth or interesting historical accounts of WW II battles and strategies. These should be somewhat special and very interesting to CEaW-GS players (What I am trying to say is NOT to pass on general info links on WW II history - make them good to support CEaW-GS manual play). I can embed them as links in this manual, thus, making it a richer and more specific aid to the new and experienced player.

Thanks in advance!!

alec

Alec,

I assume you've already mined this thread for gems but I'll post the link for completeness anyway. viewtopic.php?t=6958

[rkr1958]

http://web.me.com/amcdonel/CEaW-GS/Welcome.html

Book Boss for all this is Alec MacDonell.

We're posting a link to a working draft of our user's manual, player's guide and more for the general community to see. All of this is still a work in progress but I think captures most of the changes made by our mod. I think you'll see the tremendous number of changes that we've made.

We encourage the community in general to read and provide questions or comments. Again ... remember this is still a draft with a number of sections still to be written.

We also want to use this thread to capture those comments and questions for the development and testing teams.

How can you help us? Please post URL to in-depth or interesting historical accounts of WW II battles and strategies. These should be somewhat special and very interesting to CEaW-GS players (What I am trying to say is NOT to pass on general info links on WW II history - make them good to support CEaW-GS manual play). I can embed them as links in this manual, thus, making it a richer and more specific aid to the new and experienced player.

Thanks in advance!!

alec

Alec,

I assume you've already mined this thread for gems but I'll post the link for completeness anyway. viewtopic.php?t=6958

Alec, Here are four of my favorites from that thread.

Eisenhower's Report on Operation Torch

BBC - Siege of Malta

BBC - The Norway Campaign in World War Two

BBC - The Battle of the Atlantic by Dr Gary Sheffield

[amcdonel]

How can you help us? Please post URL to in-depth or interesting historical accounts of WW II battles and strategies. These should be somewhat special and very interesting to CEaW-GS players (What I am trying to say is NOT to pass on general info links on WW II history - make them good to support CEaW-GS manual play). I can embed them as links in this manual, thus, making it a richer and more specific aid to the new and experienced player.

Thanks in advance!!

alec

Alec,

I assume you've already mined this thread for gems but I'll post the link for completeness anyway. viewtopic.php?t=6958

Alec, Here are four of my favorites from that thread.

Eisenhower's Report on Operation Torch

BBC - Siege of Malta

BBC - The Norway Campaign in World War Two

BBC - The Battle of the Atlantic by Dr Gary Sheffield

Great!! I have added then you the manual and posted v21d to the website!!

alec

[ncali]

How do the later free generals (1941-1943) work? I am guessing they are only "free" if you start a later scenario and they do not appear as reinforements for the 1939 scenario. Am I right?

[Peter Stauffenberg]

How do the later free generals (1941-1943) work? I am guessing they are only "free" if you start a later scenario and they do not appear as reinforements for the 1939 scenario. Am I right?

That is true. You will not get free generals after turn 1 of your scenario. The reason you get more generals in e. g. the 1943 scenario is that players build units between the 1939 and the start of the scenario. Builds AFTER you start your scenarios will entirely be up to you. You don't get anything for free.