Worldwar: A Planet attacked!

[timmyvos]

Worldwar: A Planet Attacked!

The Worldwar series is one of my favourite Harry Turtledove series and I think that it'd make a very good mod for Hearts of Iron and because Darkest Hour is my favourite I'll be making the mod for that.

For those who don't know what Worldwar is: In 1942, some time after the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis, battlefleet of The Race, an alien empire, invade the USA, China, Poland, Africa, South America, Germany, and many other countries, and they airburst thermonuclear weapons over the largest cities (which, because of the reliance on transistors and vacuum tubes doesn't work.) After this the countries involved in WW2 make peace to combat the invaders.

I'm planning to mainly do this via events: sometime after the invasion of Russia there'll be an event that spawns the Race (a modified Alien Invaders race) on the planet. After this I'll make an event that forces a peace between the Axis and everyone else and hopefully, defeat the Race.
If anyone has any help, hints, warnings or anything else, it'd be appreciated. I'll gradually update this thread throughout the development.

 

[whatguts]

great idea!!

 

[unmerged(254673)]

brilliant!

 

[Azzinoth104]

Sounds fun!

 

[Andrey1984]

Are you planning to make Race as playable country? Will they have their own events? And as I recall in the book Race failed to conquer all planet, in the end they made peace with major countries and they were granted some territories on planet Earth. So in the mod will be there alternatives for such outcome, for example if player choose to as Race, then there will be a chance to destroy all major power and submit the to unconditional surrender (by certain events)? Or for example as major Earh countries submit Race to complete surrender?

P.s. By the way World war series my one of favorites. I really hope you will make an excellent mod on this topic for DH.

 

[timmyvos]

Not my first intentions, I'll be focusing on the Earthly nations first and then see if I can strike some balance between them and the Race to make it playable for both sides.

 

[warpedmind]

will the specific special technolgies of the major country play a huge role?

for example if germany gets defeated you get massive malus on rocket technology or if the usa get defeated massive malus on nuclear technology and naval warfare etc. etc.

 

[Casper3141]

Im assuming the Cheat to cause Aliens to attack in HOI2 didnt make it to Darkest Hour?

 

[timmyvos]

Im assuming the Cheat to cause Aliens to attack in HOI2 didnt make it to Darkest Hour?

Actually it did! My first game in Darkest Hour was USA against aliens, but eith this mod I'm trying to translate the Worldwar series to Darkest Hour mostly via events.

 

[Faeelin]

Have you looked at the HOI2 mod?

 

[BeardedHoplite]

Cool. Will the mod continue after the Peace of Cairo and into the "Colonization" series?

Also,

then see if I can strike some balance between them

I see what you did there.

 

[jamhaw]

Worldwar: A Planet Attacked!

The Worldwar series is one of my favourite Harry Turtledove series and I think that it'd make a very good mod for Hearts of Iron and because Darkest Hour is my favourite I'll be making the mod for that.

For those who don't know what Worldwar is: In 1942, some time after the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis, battlefleet of The Race, an alien empire, invade the USA, China, Poland, Africa, South America, Germany, and many other countries, and they airburst thermonuclear weapons over the largest cities (which, because of the reliance on transistors and vacuum tubes doesn't work.) After this the countries involved in WW2 make peace to combat the invaders.

I'm planning to mainly do this via events: sometime after the invasion of Russia there'll be an event that spawns the Race (a modified Alien Invaders race) on the planet. After this I'll make an event that forces a peace between the Axis and everyone else and hopefully, defeat the Race.
If anyone has any help, hints, warnings or anything else, it'd be appreciated. I'll gradually update this thread throughout the development.

There was a mod for Hearts of Iron II about this which could perhaps be used as a base for this mod. Someone else has made a number of SKIF icons for the aliens in this series.

 

[novapaddy]

Just some possibly interesting information for you timmyvos. Today I opened up the hoi-counter-strip in dh/gfx/maps folder (copy your original first and put it somewhere safe) and just for the first tile, I made it transparent, just leaving the black outline as it was. ... In game the tile was transparent... was like alien counters... getting the idea?

You could have alien infantry, almost invisible... but maybe when upgraded to paratroopers or whatever... they would be using a different tile?? (don't know?) and would then become visible...

 

[T.j. Arnold]

Isn't there a cheat to allow aliens to invade (only DH Lite, I believe)? Just do that repeatedly any give them pretend dialogue.

Bam!

 

[timmyvos]

Isn't there a cheat to allow aliens to invade (only DH Lite, I believe)? Just do that repeatedly any give them pretend dialogue.

Bam!

You xan only use that cheat (it also works in DH Full I think) once and it wouldn't be fun to wait for the to attack, also in the book the Race attacked all five continents at the same time so the cheat wouldn't suffice here.

 

[unmerged(265151)]

I would love to see this - liberate Earth from the Race, great way to make the often boring postwar work...