Changelog Historical Stony Road to War v2.04 (for HOI 2 v1.2)
/Folder
*File
Changes description (Author).
/AI
*Soviet
1-Corrected HOI2 A.I. problem which was leaving the soviet ai strongly guarding Finland even when at war with Germany with obvious bad military distribution within the war front (Aregorn, very serious ai scripting mistake from HOI2 reported by Scharlemanje).
2-Corrected ai building preferences especially after the winter war (Aregorn, requested by Steffele)
*Major Powers
1- Redifined brigade attachment preferences according to the new setup (Aregorn)
/Config
*Several files
1-Replaced everywhere sp-rocket artillery for the new elite corps, including descriptions and country specific names for them (Aregorn).
/DB
*Difficulty
1-Increased Grofaz IC penalty for the human player (Aregorn).
2-Decreased resources income by 5% to be more adequate with the IC capacity (Aregorn).
3- Reduced ai tech bonus (Aregorn).
*Misc
1-Increased combine arms defence bonus (Aregorn).
2-Decreased land fort efficiency by 11% (Aregorn).
/Events
*Aregorn_Fra
1-Corrected the encirclement of the Maginot event (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Ger
1-Corrected trigger of Eben-Emael event (Aregorn).
2-Added the Romanian oil events (Aregorn).
3-Corrected DAK events (Aregorn).
4-Corrected Olympics event trigger (Aregorn).
5-Corrected some spelling mistakes (reported by Voske1983).
6-Reworked the Hungarian claims on Slovakia event because of some non-wanted outcomes in specific situations reported in the forum by Ryba. Now it should be working as intended (Aregorn).
7-Corrected the foreign volunteers event (Aregorn, not working properly reported in the forum).
*Aregorn_Ger_AI
1-Corrected reinforcements (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Ita
1-New Raids from Malta events (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Jap
1- Corrected the non-aggression pact event with the USSR. There was a serious typo which was creating the pact between USSR and Germany instead of Japan (Tangyuan Team).
*Aregorn_Occupation
1-Gave 1 free transport after Norway (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Sov
1- Corrected AI reinforcements (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Spa
1-Added Soviet armament shipments to SPR (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_UK
1-Corrected serious bug from deployments in Alexandria (Egypt). Actually there is an Alexandria province in the US and everything was deployed there instead because of the wrong ID…not very nice words for the map designer… (Aregorn).
2-Corrected AI reinforcements (Aregorn).
3-Modified some ai events (Aregorn).
4-Corrected some mistakes on the North African ai garrison events (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_USA
1-Corrected AI reinforcements (Aregorn).
*Austria
1-Reduced the number of troops given to Germany after the Anschluss (Aregorn).
*UK
1-Further modified Lend lease event. Now some of the USA help will need to be transported through the atlantic to reach London with the potential U-Boat interception. Unfortunately it is not working with supplies but it does work for oil and the ai does create the convoys. Before you ask we can not use other than oil and supplies as event commands (Aregorn from proposed idea of Dec152000).
*SOV
1-Further modified Lend lease event. Now all the USA help will need to be transported through the atlantic to reach Murmansk with the potential U-Boat interception. Unfortunately it is not working with supplies but it does work for oil and the ai does create the convoys. The soviets are oil producers so no need to though but still there are some troops to be transported and as human you may want to retrieve some of those supplies (Aregorn from proposed idea of Dec152000).
2-Corrected some ai reinforcement events, which were not working (Aregorn).
3- Corrected command typo in the non-aggression pact with Japan (Tangyuan Team).
4-Corrected some further mistakes in the non-aggression pact with Japan (Aregorn).
5-Added the encirclement of Moscow event (Aregorn, requested in our forum).
/GFX
*Event_Pictures
1-New Picture for the Romanian oil events (Aregorn).
2-New Picture for capturing of Soviet cities (Steffele).
3-New Picture war dissent (Steffele).
3-Various New Pictures for German events (Steffele).
*Interface
1-Added new terrain pictures (Finbar).
2-Corrected some leader pictures id mistakes (Aregorn).
/Scenarios
*Germany
1-Replaced all artillery attachments from the OOB to Heavy divisions. Artillery attachments would be most probably deleted anyway by most just creating unnecessary micromanagement.
*Soviet
1- Reduced soviet research efficiency (Aregorn).
*All
1-Recalibrated Transport capacity values to be country specific. This change was made for the human players of course, as the ai even though the change will be there will not really notice it. The Soviets had the biggest boost with a +20% bonus, as their strategy was mass combat so they should be able to mass big number of divisions without much penalty (Aregorn).
*1936
1- New scenario_1936.bmp (Tjaja).
/Units
*Elite Corps
1-Added elite type corps for all countries attachable to mobile, mountain, marine and airborne units (Aregorn).
*Armour
1-Armour units can no longer attach HD (Aregorn).
2-Speed increased by 1 (Aregorn).
3-Reduced organisation (Aregorn).
*Heavy Armour
1-Increased cost significantly (Aregorn).
*Lt-Armour
1-Lt.Armour units can no longer attach HD (Aregorn).
2-Speed increased by 1 (Aregorn).
3-Reduced organisation (Aregorn).
*SP-Artillery
1-Increased cost (Aregorn).
*SS
1-Modified values and added now one extra upgrade (early, basic, improved & advanced) (Aregorn).
/Technology
1-Blitzkrieg is now giving +1 speed to all mobile units (Aregorn).
2-Reworked the elite corps concept. The old branch sp- rocket artillery (proposed by Dec152000) had been replaced for elite techs so that every country can develop elite type attachemnts. Elite SS attachments will be now researched there too, resulting in a much better organised tree (Aregorn).
*Naval_Doctrine
1-Disabled naval_port and naval_airfield strikes as they are currently not working properly and it is very easy to use it as an exploit to annihilate the ai fleets as carriers performing such an operation vaporised all their organisation without producing much damage. Hence if you harvour a nice carrier fleet in the attacked port you only need to sail out an counterattack the powerless enemy fleet most probably sunking their carriers without producing any damage (Aregorn). After testing there is no way it seems to disable the ai to perform such missions, only the human seems to be affected by the changes... we have another of those very serious Paradox bugs related to the new HOI2 missions. Coded yes, never tested before release it seems. Ok until we find another solution I increased significantly the mission efficiency for the ai and the naval morale, might help the ai a bit.
*Naval
1-Scrapt all obsolete carriers and subs (Aregorn).
/Installer
1-hoi2.exe is no longer included. (Tjaja).
/HOI 2 1.2 Bugs identified
· (Modding) Gorund_defense command does not work
· (Serius) Air bases are supporting more than their maximum limit (actually any air base can support any number of air units so no need to improve existing air fields) naval bases seem to have the same problem although not sure how they were intended to be used.
· (Incredibly Serius) Some a.i. air missions seem to be assigned only after reload… don't need to tell how terrible this bug is... Independently of how annoying it might be, until it is sorted, you should frequently reload, at least ones a month if not more…
· (Incredibly Serius) Air missions like strategic bombing and naval attack at sea seems to take place very rarely… the new HOI 2 air warfare looks very nice on paper and much better than HOI in the theory but someone forgot to actually implement it for the ai…
· (Modding) The unit name command does not work as a trigger.
· (Modding) The under_attack trigger seems not to be working.
· Random events seem only to trigger once a year after continuous play without reload. If reload is done at least once a year random events will never take place.
· (Very Serius) Return-dmg from the ai files does not seem to be working and it is not defined in the save files either. The result is that the ai do not keep very damaged ships in port and send them into missions as soon as they get enough organisation.
· Air units performing air missions (e.g. naval strikes) cover all provinces of the mission area even when it is way beyond the range of the air division.
· The ship sunken report after battles is not accurate. Sunken ships at times are not reported in short engagements and not as a wad.
· (Modding) The division_exist and Division type triggers do not work.
· (Very serious) Naval missions to attack ports are nearly harmless for the defender, not for the attacker though which completely looses all organisation and becomes vulnerable to immediate retaliation by hostile fleets.
· (Serius) transport planes can airdrop beyond their range if the target is an airfield.
/Folder
*File
Changes description (Author).
/AI
*Soviet
1-Corrected HOI2 A.I. problem which was leaving the soviet ai strongly guarding Finland even when at war with Germany with obvious bad military distribution within the war front (Aregorn, very serious ai scripting mistake from HOI2 reported by Scharlemanje).
2-Corrected ai building preferences especially after the winter war (Aregorn, requested by Steffele)
*Major Powers
1- Redifined brigade attachment preferences according to the new setup (Aregorn)
/Config
*Several files
1-Replaced everywhere sp-rocket artillery for the new elite corps, including descriptions and country specific names for them (Aregorn).
/DB
*Difficulty
1-Increased Grofaz IC penalty for the human player (Aregorn).
2-Decreased resources income by 5% to be more adequate with the IC capacity (Aregorn).
3- Reduced ai tech bonus (Aregorn).
*Misc
1-Increased combine arms defence bonus (Aregorn).
2-Decreased land fort efficiency by 11% (Aregorn).
/Events
*Aregorn_Fra
1-Corrected the encirclement of the Maginot event (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Ger
1-Corrected trigger of Eben-Emael event (Aregorn).
2-Added the Romanian oil events (Aregorn).
3-Corrected DAK events (Aregorn).
4-Corrected Olympics event trigger (Aregorn).
5-Corrected some spelling mistakes (reported by Voske1983).
6-Reworked the Hungarian claims on Slovakia event because of some non-wanted outcomes in specific situations reported in the forum by Ryba. Now it should be working as intended (Aregorn).
7-Corrected the foreign volunteers event (Aregorn, not working properly reported in the forum).
*Aregorn_Ger_AI
1-Corrected reinforcements (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Ita
1-New Raids from Malta events (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Jap
1- Corrected the non-aggression pact event with the USSR. There was a serious typo which was creating the pact between USSR and Germany instead of Japan (Tangyuan Team).
*Aregorn_Occupation
1-Gave 1 free transport after Norway (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Sov
1- Corrected AI reinforcements (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_Spa
1-Added Soviet armament shipments to SPR (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_UK
1-Corrected serious bug from deployments in Alexandria (Egypt). Actually there is an Alexandria province in the US and everything was deployed there instead because of the wrong ID…not very nice words for the map designer… (Aregorn).
2-Corrected AI reinforcements (Aregorn).
3-Modified some ai events (Aregorn).
4-Corrected some mistakes on the North African ai garrison events (Aregorn).
*Aregorn_USA
1-Corrected AI reinforcements (Aregorn).
*Austria
1-Reduced the number of troops given to Germany after the Anschluss (Aregorn).
*UK
1-Further modified Lend lease event. Now some of the USA help will need to be transported through the atlantic to reach London with the potential U-Boat interception. Unfortunately it is not working with supplies but it does work for oil and the ai does create the convoys. Before you ask we can not use other than oil and supplies as event commands (Aregorn from proposed idea of Dec152000).
*SOV
1-Further modified Lend lease event. Now all the USA help will need to be transported through the atlantic to reach Murmansk with the potential U-Boat interception. Unfortunately it is not working with supplies but it does work for oil and the ai does create the convoys. The soviets are oil producers so no need to though but still there are some troops to be transported and as human you may want to retrieve some of those supplies (Aregorn from proposed idea of Dec152000).
2-Corrected some ai reinforcement events, which were not working (Aregorn).
3- Corrected command typo in the non-aggression pact with Japan (Tangyuan Team).
4-Corrected some further mistakes in the non-aggression pact with Japan (Aregorn).
5-Added the encirclement of Moscow event (Aregorn, requested in our forum).
/GFX
*Event_Pictures
1-New Picture for the Romanian oil events (Aregorn).
2-New Picture for capturing of Soviet cities (Steffele).
3-New Picture war dissent (Steffele).
3-Various New Pictures for German events (Steffele).
*Interface
1-Added new terrain pictures (Finbar).
2-Corrected some leader pictures id mistakes (Aregorn).
/Scenarios
*Germany
1-Replaced all artillery attachments from the OOB to Heavy divisions. Artillery attachments would be most probably deleted anyway by most just creating unnecessary micromanagement.
*Soviet
1- Reduced soviet research efficiency (Aregorn).
*All
1-Recalibrated Transport capacity values to be country specific. This change was made for the human players of course, as the ai even though the change will be there will not really notice it. The Soviets had the biggest boost with a +20% bonus, as their strategy was mass combat so they should be able to mass big number of divisions without much penalty (Aregorn).
*1936
1- New scenario_1936.bmp (Tjaja).
/Units
*Elite Corps
1-Added elite type corps for all countries attachable to mobile, mountain, marine and airborne units (Aregorn).
*Armour
1-Armour units can no longer attach HD (Aregorn).
2-Speed increased by 1 (Aregorn).
3-Reduced organisation (Aregorn).
*Heavy Armour
1-Increased cost significantly (Aregorn).
*Lt-Armour
1-Lt.Armour units can no longer attach HD (Aregorn).
2-Speed increased by 1 (Aregorn).
3-Reduced organisation (Aregorn).
*SP-Artillery
1-Increased cost (Aregorn).
*SS
1-Modified values and added now one extra upgrade (early, basic, improved & advanced) (Aregorn).
/Technology
1-Blitzkrieg is now giving +1 speed to all mobile units (Aregorn).
2-Reworked the elite corps concept. The old branch sp- rocket artillery (proposed by Dec152000) had been replaced for elite techs so that every country can develop elite type attachemnts. Elite SS attachments will be now researched there too, resulting in a much better organised tree (Aregorn).
*Naval_Doctrine
1-Disabled naval_port and naval_airfield strikes as they are currently not working properly and it is very easy to use it as an exploit to annihilate the ai fleets as carriers performing such an operation vaporised all their organisation without producing much damage. Hence if you harvour a nice carrier fleet in the attacked port you only need to sail out an counterattack the powerless enemy fleet most probably sunking their carriers without producing any damage (Aregorn). After testing there is no way it seems to disable the ai to perform such missions, only the human seems to be affected by the changes... we have another of those very serious Paradox bugs related to the new HOI2 missions. Coded yes, never tested before release it seems. Ok until we find another solution I increased significantly the mission efficiency for the ai and the naval morale, might help the ai a bit.
*Naval
1-Scrapt all obsolete carriers and subs (Aregorn).
/Installer
1-hoi2.exe is no longer included. (Tjaja).
/HOI 2 1.2 Bugs identified
· (Modding) Gorund_defense command does not work
· (Serius) Air bases are supporting more than their maximum limit (actually any air base can support any number of air units so no need to improve existing air fields) naval bases seem to have the same problem although not sure how they were intended to be used.
· (Incredibly Serius) Some a.i. air missions seem to be assigned only after reload… don't need to tell how terrible this bug is... Independently of how annoying it might be, until it is sorted, you should frequently reload, at least ones a month if not more…
· (Incredibly Serius) Air missions like strategic bombing and naval attack at sea seems to take place very rarely… the new HOI 2 air warfare looks very nice on paper and much better than HOI in the theory but someone forgot to actually implement it for the ai…
· (Modding) The unit name command does not work as a trigger.
· (Modding) The under_attack trigger seems not to be working.
· Random events seem only to trigger once a year after continuous play without reload. If reload is done at least once a year random events will never take place.
· (Very Serius) Return-dmg from the ai files does not seem to be working and it is not defined in the save files either. The result is that the ai do not keep very damaged ships in port and send them into missions as soon as they get enough organisation.
· Air units performing air missions (e.g. naval strikes) cover all provinces of the mission area even when it is way beyond the range of the air division.
· The ship sunken report after battles is not accurate. Sunken ships at times are not reported in short engagements and not as a wad.
· (Modding) The division_exist and Division type triggers do not work.
· (Very serious) Naval missions to attack ports are nearly harmless for the defender, not for the attacker though which completely looses all organisation and becomes vulnerable to immediate retaliation by hostile fleets.
· (Serius) transport planes can airdrop beyond their range if the target is an airfield.