Development of AoD 1.09?

[Autolykos]

Dunkerque is also a good candidate for more defensible terrain, having been besieged twice. Not sure if it should be urban or swamp (or a river/mini-strait like in Hong Kong), since the main German defense was actually flooding the fields around the city (IIRC). Besieging a plains province just doesn't make sense and rarely happens naturally.
FTR, I'm also not advocating more "detailed" province borders or a complete redesign of the world map. The minimalistic HoI-style borders are fine design-wise, IMHO. The image was just the first one I could find on Wikipedia that showed the division I had in mind (3 cross instead of 2 long). It only helps that this was the historical division anyway. If we used it, Oppeln doesn't even need to be made urban, since the city would actually be quite close to the province border to Breslau.

 

[Titan79]

I'd be all in favour of a splitting of the current Breslau province in 2 (or even 3) parts, as I agree that turning such a big province urban looks a bit weird (although, in fact, that's what I did).

I'm only wondering if this would be feasible, i.e. how many AI and other event files would need to be changed for just such a "small" modification to the map...

 

[Autolykos]

The only new province would be Liegnitz (Oppeln and Breslau would just be rearranged). A quick search through the files indicate that Breslau (ID 473) is only mentioned in the peace events in "hoi2.txt" and the triggers for a yugoslavian coup (that don't need to care about Liegnitz). I couldn't find it in the ai files or anywhere else (the minister ID 473 occurs at a few places though...).

 

[Pang Bingxun]

A new set is online.

 

[Pang Bingxun]

Australia has a problem with very low manpower. Apparently it builds no single land division in the early years because right now it builds infrastructure. That makes quite some sence economically. But increasing infra from 100% to 200% costs 10 manpower and Australia starts with a total of additional 1040% in the building queue. This leaves no manpower for additional land units. In any case Australia has a very high ic/manpower ratio, so building Interceptors and a navy would add to the total strength of their alliance.

 

[Pang Bingxun]

Assembly line gives no advantage to the "new" brigades from AoD. Assault gun, Rail Road Artilery and any ship brigade but CAG has no advantage from assembly line techs.

 

[bestmajor]

Pang, you have some doubles again in the file:


SPA leaders CSV:

Gonzalo Queipo de Llano;3497;SPA;1935;1990;1990;1990;3;5;4;1;0;5;0;M10055;1935;1950;x

Queipo de Llano y Sierra;3451;SPA;1930;1930;1930;1990;1;8;16;2;0;4;0;L3451;1930;1960;x

CRO leaders CSV:

Simic;44639;CRO;1944;1990;1990;1990;3;4;0;2;0;4;0;Simic_Franjo_cro;1944;1960;x

Simic;44655;CRO;1942;1990;1990;1990;3;5;4;1;0;5;0;M_CRO_FranjoSimic;1942;1964;x

HUN leaders CSV:

Temesvari;31413;HUN;1943;1990;1990;1990;3;4;2;0;0;5;0;Temesvari_Endre_hun;1943;1960;x

Temesváry;31476;HUN;1941;1990;1990;1990;3;5;32;1;0;5;0;L_HUN_Temesváry;1941;1961;x

CHI CSV:

Liu Zhi;50391;CHI;1933;1990;1990;1990;3;4;2;1;0;5;0;M_CHI_LiuZhi;1933;1955;x

Liu Zhi;50205;CHI;1930;1930;1930;1990;1;6;513;1;0;4;0;L50205;1930;1946;x

Xu Yongchang;50113;CHI;1930;1930;1941;1990;1;4;1;1;0;4;0;L50113;1930;1960;x

Xu Yongchang;50296;CHI;1940;1941;1943;1990;1;4;2;2;0;3;0;L50296;1940;1960;x

please please always check if a) the person is already in and b) if this person added is a relevant one. i just posted the doubles i found, but other additions are very much irrelevant people.

i did not check the ministers.......

 

[rwglaub]

Pang, unfortunately your latest version did something that broke AoD in color, which added a lot to the game. The 1936 scenario just stopped loading, and the error file doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Pang Bingxun]

Pang, unfortunately your latest version did something that broke AoD in color, which added a lot to the game. The 1936 scenario just stopped loading, and the error file doesn't make any sense to me.

I cannot reproduce your problem. 1936 loades without any problems.

 

[bestmajor]

Pang, unfortunately your latest version did something that broke AoD in color, which added a lot to the game. The 1936 scenario just stopped loading, and the error file doesn't make any sense to me.

Roebert, i think you need to figure out that yourself or give a more appropriate error report. i think Adolphin has already fixed your problem.

@Pang: is there any hope for a new exe?

 

[rwglaub]

I can very easily accept that I may have done something wrong...

 

[PanssariPanda]

Assembly line gives no advantage to the "new" brigades from AoD. Assault gun, Rail Road Artilery and any ship brigade but CAG has no advantage from assembly line techs.

Certainly needs changing, would improve the usefullness of those brigades a good deal.

 

[Autolykos]

Assault guns should also have at least one more model added to the '43 TD tech (the SU-152 is a honest-to-god assault gun, not SpArt*, and development started late '42, making it a '43 tech in game terms). Their main weakness is that they start to become useless too early; otherwise a mix of SpArt and TD is a sound concept for a brigade. Maybe have later TD/SpArt techs add another point of hard/soft attack each, to represent improved ammunition.

*Currently, all of the Soviet SpArt models after the first (never heard of a SU-37, and Wiki links to the Su-37 Jet Fighter) are actually assault guns, not (indirect fire) artillery. I don't know of any Soviet SPGs comparable to a Priest or Hummel that actually went into production during WW2, so it's probably best to leave the model names blank (or add some prototypes if one can find them).

 

[Pang Bingxun]

The text that you have entered is too long (55993 characters). Please shorten it to 50000 characters long.

A new set is online. Seems like i need some more space for my documentation.

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[Denniss]

Just attach changelog as textfile in your second post or use multiple attachments in the first post.

 

[bosman]

I see very nice changes, although i think, that adding Stalin's line to USSR is very important. Maybe a little forgotten story, but it's known as an epic fail of soviets, that shortly before german invasion that line was abandoned and "moved" to the new western border (as Molotov's line). It was in fact quite powerful, at least on some sectors.
Forts of level 1-3 should fit, and give some potential in defence especially, if further improved. After annexation of eastern Poland, an event should give a choice to keep old line and raise revoltrisk (or leave on same level) in annexed provinces or to move to new border (for lower cost, than building from scratch) and lower it or to keep old and start building new for normal cost.

 

[bestmajor]

canadian ministers

45180;Chief of Staff;Ziegler William Smith;44;ML;School of Mass Combat;High;M_CAN_ZieglerWilliamSmith;x

the name is wrong, the person is only brigadier: http://generals.dk/general/Ziegler/William_Smith/Canada.html
this person is really no candidate for the Chief of general Staff.

guys, really: leave it as it is please or make a mod with these changes. its messing up the data base completely. i mean thats not funny anymore.

 

[Pioniere]

canadian ministers


the name is wrong, the person is only brigadier: http://generals.dk/general/Ziegler/William_Smith/Canada.html
this person is really no candidate for the Chief of general Staff.

guys, really: leave it as it is please or make a mod with these changes. its messing up the data base completely. i mean thats not funny anymore.

OK, he is removed from the minister file and is only a post ww2 leader(the changes comes later). Im not trying to be funny. Ok can I use Stuart Kenneth as chief of staff: http://www.generals.dk/general/Stuart/Kenneth/Canada.html. Canada has little new from before.

 

[bestmajor]

Pioniere: theis first name in generals.dk is the family name. the person is called Kenneth Stuart and not Stuart Kenneth. he is already in of course.

45101;Chief of Staff;Kenneth Stuart;36;SC;School of Mass Combat;Very High;M45086;x

and Ziegler is of course a ww2 leader, just no minister (and Ziegler is his family name). even not post war minister. you can for example look for real people who held such a post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_of_the_General_Staff_(Canada)

or this one for the cold war http://www.generals.dk/general/Allard/Jean-Victor/Canada.html

just read properly, cross check, check if they are already in. please please. or simply make your own mod. you are creating a lot of work, simply because you do not read and you do not check if the person is already in.


EDIT:

ROM tech teams:

2941;Corbuleanu Mihail;T_ROM_CorbuleanuMihail;3;1945;1964;small_unit_tactics;decentralized_execution;infantry_focus;training;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
2942;Cretulescu Ilie;T_ROM_CretulescuIlie;3;1944;1958;centralized_execution;large_unit_tactics;infantry_focus;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;x

both names wrong as Romania uses the western name order (Ilie Creţulescu and Mihail Corbuleanu).

http://www.generals.dk/general/Corbuleanu/Mihail/Romania.html
http://www.generals.dk/general/Creţulescu/Ilie/Romania.html

 

[Pioniere]

Fixed the doubles* and the Romanian names, but changes will come later. This was an vanilla doubles:
Xu Yongchang;50113;CHI;1930;1930;1941;1990;1;4;1;1;0; 4;0;L50113;1930;1960;x
Xu Yongchang;50296;CHI;1940;1941;1943;1990;1;4;2;2;0; 3;0;L50296;1940;1960;x

Bestmajor do you have a suggestion for 2 to 5 new army leaders that N.china can use?

*I would like to have Tobruk on level 2 or 3 level fort in grand campaign 1944/1945