Playing for 2 days now/Questions

[fsp]

Hi,

I have been playing for two days now and this are the observations I´ve made so far. I spent about an hour reading the stickies so everything I´m asking I couldn´t find. If it HAS been posted I probably got lost in the large mega threads.

Played two games, one as the US, one as Germany.

1) What are the victory conditions? I checked the event files (I am not too good in this) and it seemed to have to do sth. with 55%+ dissent.

2) Every time Germany takes either Paris or large parts of Russia the war is over. Is this intended? Shouldn´t the war go on at least on the front were Germany has not (yet) been victorious?

3) What can I do about my (German) armies being stuck in the middle of France after France´s surrender (other than getting military access)?

4) Playing the US I noticed my WE going down again and again well into 1917, thus not allowing me to fully produce and research. If this is WAD it´s great, the only problem is the sudden change in WE, giving me dissent because I don´t check my CG needs every two weeks.

5) What good is siege artillery? It seems that it is more expensive with worse stats. Am I missing anything here?

6) Playing Germany, the big war was over in September 1914 with my capture of Paris. Playing the US it was over by mid 1916 with the German´s capture of Russia. Is there a point in playing on after the armistice? How is the game SUPPOSED to go on after the end of the great war?

7) Is Germany overpowered or is it simply an AI problem (I´ve read that you guys have not been working very much on the AI) that the 2. Reich is having an easy time whenever I played?

8) B I G compliments. Even though the mod clearly is not finished yet, it is very playable, and quite stable on my machine. More important, it´s a lot of FUN!

(Sure, there are some graphic glitches with the planes, but I read you already know about them)


Thanks for answering!

 

[ptan54]

Well, there IS a thread entitled "General discussion"....posting this query there would have been most suitable.

1 - Victory conditions are all in the event files. For France it is the loss of Paris, Auxerre, Amiens, Bordeaux, Germany is Berlin, Konigsberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Britain is London, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Russia is Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev, Austria is Budapest, Vienna, Zagreb.

2 - Correct, Germany will still need to fight on the other front when one enemy has been defeated. This will be rectified in 1.03

3 - Unfortunately nothing, this is something pretty stupid and at least the player can ask for military access, the AI usually leaves a gigantic army starving in the wilderness........we have no idea how to solve this except grant military access once the defeat event fires? And I've seen them cancel access too, which is a great problem.

4 - It does tend to fluctuate a lot. We are hoping that the USA can only enter the war via event, which is realistic because it took a direct attack on American shipping and more importantly the Zimmerman telegram to achieve what British statecraft failed to achieve in three years.

5 - No good at all and we're scrapping this, as well as gas artillery for the next version.

6 - Nothing really, the mod is all about the Great War.....you could go on to conquer the whole world or start a new game. Hopefully the AI will be improved so the game doesnt end so soon.

7 - AI problem. Sometimes Germany gets clobbered hard by Russia.

8 - Thank you for downloading it!