Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Bliztk

Hi, I have been looking at the RHS scenarios and I have found some oddities.

First, there are several models (like 50 B29) avaliable at start

Yes - In RHS the "pool" is either the total number of planes - or the difference between production per month and real production. In this case, the number of B-29s in theater operational units is the number of months times 50 - but that is 50 too few - and further the first unit appears when there is a production pool already.

REPLY: This is a technical problem: turns out you can use a plane before it exists! Someone pointed that out - but I forgot to fix it. I need to fold in some of those pools into the monthly rate - much as that is less than an ideal solution (getting an extra 2 or 4 planes per month is not the same as starting with 50 on the availability date of the plane - which is what I expected it to mean). Turns out the code ignores the availability date - if anything is in the pool - it is available! So I should fix that for 4.0

Second, the PP for some units are totally wrong. For example the US BF at United States Base (SLC) is prepping for a city on Siberia, Kuching BF is prepping for Yenen, and units in China are generally prepping for wrong places


RHS: I have private information from Andrew this is a known issue.
It is in RHS because that is how CHS is. We never changed such a thing.
But while we have cought a number of these in British forces, we were not aware it was an issue for US forces. I believe the data set got numbers in them at various times - CHS hands the entire file set around calling the current location the "file owner" - and this probably permits lots of things to happen unknown to humans. There are 133,000 fields or so - and small numbers are interpreted in various ways by various fields.
I find looking at lots of fields in a spreadsheet helps spot these bogus numbers. Most of these units should start with no planning at all - that is a zero in the planning field. If you can supply slot numbers, I can fix them faster.

(in reply to Bliztk)

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ORIGINAL: el cid again

It is a sort of B-24 without bombs, with extra fuel in tanks installed in the former bomb bays - and which looks a lot like existing B-24 art -
but substitutes range for bomb load. I can add this with no change to art panels.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

More errata (present in EOS v4.072):

- Pontianak base force begins the game in the ocean (without a ship) in hex 24,57 (next to Pontianak). [Note: In the Pwhex just released there is also a road/trail in this ocean hex.]

This is a problem with the way the data is presented. If you play with hexes you should see the unit is in a land hex - just in the corner. Unless it is an error. I did change that hex a few pwhex files back - and Andrew elected not to change it - it is a question of making the art match the file and it is very close to the hex edge. EDIT: Right you are. Unit 3368 is in the wrong hex. I will issue a correction as 4.12 in a few seconds. That will also include a new aircraft - PV-2 Harpoon - and correction of upgrade paths for US PB squadrons.

- Soviets are not active (IIRC they are supposed to be active in EOS, otherwise ignore this entry).

IF the Soviets are not active, you have the wrong cam file. This file is now included in distribution - it also has the political points for the scenario - and probably pilots too.

- KGV class battleships again point to the wrong art (was fixed a few releases ago in CVO)

I remember that - it is amazing how this happens - but you have not indicated what is the right art? EDIT: Again - not true for any scenario.
So there is some sort of file problem - in this case it is the class file.


- RAF 114 Base Force starts the game in hex 2,2 - 'in the field' next to Aden. I assume it should begin in Aden.

This is now fixed - Almost all British base forces started at Mideast which used to be in this hex. There were also ships appearing there - and they too have been relocated - to Aden. There were also a few US air squadrons pointing there. Depending on scenario, they relocated to Aden or to United States (Salt Lake City in RHS).

- Slots 1487 (RAAF Number 13/2 Flight) and 1476 (RAAF Number 2/2 Flight) report to 'USSR Pacific O Fleet'.

That seems wrong! EDIT: This is not true. That means you are somehow mixing files. You have the wrong location file. You need to update.

Also a question - are 'Field Hands' supposed to perform engineer functions?

Yes - Field Hands are supposed to be engineers. WITPQS reported they don't. I tested and seem to have verified his report. But Matrix insists that engineers are engineers! Go figure - for safety I put in real engineer squads in all large supply sinks - to insure destruction of facilities under a land attack. Field hand squads differ in that they are almost worthless in combat. Otherwise they are the same as pioneers or sappers. Coolie squads are the same as field hand squads, except they have more men, and are worth even less in combat! The man count is quite small - I found it impacts land combat - so I minized it. These are real work teams like you find in real life - a field hand squad is something like 4 and a coolie squad is something like 6 men (or women).

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

- KGV class battleships point to the wrong art (they point to the correct art in CVO). KGV class 187 points to bitmap 183, should point to bitmap 187.