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GS v2.01.13 coming soon

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:00 pm
by Peter Stauffenberg
I’ve made the following changes today in response to different messages from e. g. Leridano and Blathergut:

Ronnie and Paul will distribute these updates to you. I hope now we've managed to catch all the game issues you've found so we can focus on playing again. :)

• Persia will activate when an Axis unit has moved into Iraq instead of when an Axis unit captures an Iraqi resource

• USSR will activate when an Axis unit has moved into Persia instead of when an Axis unit captures a Persian resource

• Free French garrisons will spawn in empty French controlled north Africa city/ fortress hexes when the French armistice offer is rejected

The units spawn at the following strength:
FREE_FRENCH_GARRISON_STRENGTH 5 /* 0..10 0 = no spawn. Strength of the Free French garrisons in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia after the fall of France */

• Britain is required to have a home guard force in Great Britain / Canada before USSR or USA joins the Allies. Failing to do so will make a loss in max morale of all British units. These parameters control how this is done:

UK_HOME_GUARD_UNITS_REQUIRED 10 /* Number of land units needed in core UK territory prior to USA or USSR joining the Allies */
UK_MORALE_PENALTY_PER_MISSING_HG 5 /* Max morale of all UK units are lowered by this number for each missing HG unit in UK */

There are at start 13 UK land units in Great Britain / Canada so it’s possible to have a BEF of 3 units without losing any morale loss. Once you fall below 10 units you will lose 5 max morale per unit failing to make the 10 unit limit.

This is the message that will be shown every turn the Allied player fails to keep the HG requirement:
INDEX-978| "Too few British Home Guard land units causes fear in Britain. All UK units suffer a max morale loss of"

Please notice that if an Axis unit has entered Great Britain or Canada then the US max morale loss will not apply. The UK morale would get back to normal if the Germans actually landed in England. This way it’s not possible to invade Britain and force the morale to get to 0 by killing British units.

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:06 am
by schwerpunkt
Nice to see a fix for the BEF GAR blob strategy...

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:43 am
by Peter Stauffenberg
It's maybe not a complete fix, but at least it will be enough of a burden sending 3-4 garrisons in addition to the mech and corps so it will actually help the Germans if the British do. One bad side effect is that if they e. g. lose 10 efficiency then the air units will perform worse against the Luftwaffe and that will hurt the PP reserve.

We have to make more minor tweaks if it seems the Germans struggle to get a June conquest of France. I can do it on the second June turn against normal Allied defense, but against a heavier BEF presence I think it will be July before France surrenders.