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East Front - Where are my DCG Replacements? - 8/16/2007 4:22:52 PM   
Grognard66

 

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Status: offline 		I just started a DCG, Heersgruppe Sud. I am about 8 missions in and it's been about 3 weeks. My forces have been triumphant but are showing signs of wear and I've yet to see even one replacement. I searched the forums and found no mention of this but if I recall the previous incarnations of EF you received some sort of replacements at least every other week even if they were rarely enough.

Was the replacement rate modified so that it's once a month, at best? Or perhaps I am just getting unfortunate in my replacement checks?

Additionally, it said I received upgraded equipment about a week in yet nothing had changed, still one co. IVD's, one co. IIIF's, and two cos. IIIG's. That, unfortunately, is just like the old EF in that regard.



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RE: Replacements? - 8/16/2007 4:47:51 PM   
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I just started a DCG, Heersgruppe Sud. I am about 8 missions in and it's been about 3 weeks. My forces have been triumphant but are showing signs of wear and I've yet to see even one replacement. I searched the forums and found no mention of this but if I recall the previous incarnations of EF you received some sort of replacements at least every other week even if they were rarely enough.

Was the replacement rate modified so that it's once a month, at best? Or perhaps I am just getting unfortunate in my replacement checks?


The replacement file was modified, but the amount of reinforcements you receive will increase as the war goes on based on the assumption you will accept your promotions when they come. Unfortunately, the software I modified it with created a glitch in the file that makes it unreadable. This will be fixed and added to the 1.03 Patch, if not a new temporary patch.

Or, if you are absolutely requiring the file, I would be happy to mail it to you with instructions on where to place it.

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ORIGINAL: Grognard66
Additionally, it said I received upgraded equipment about a week in yet nothing had changed, still one co. IVD's, one co. IIIF's, and two cos. IIIG's. That, unfortunately, is just like the old EF in that regard.


Keep in mind, the upgrade notice will be for the entire panzer division. Odds are that one of your anti-tank companies were upgraded to 50mm guns. Depending on the Panzer Division you chose, your upgrades will be coming in the next few months. When they do upgrade, it will be by the company. One of your Panzer IIIF companies might be upgraded to PanzerIIIH, for example.

Hope that helps
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RE: Replacements? - 8/16/2007 6:34:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Alright, here is a fix.

Extract the attached zip file into your East Front folder, replace all files.

Your replacements should arrive as normal.

Hope that helps
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RE: Replacements? - 8/16/2007 7:25:19 PM   
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Is this file on for this particular DCG Campaign Game or would it be something that would help all DCG Campaigns? Just curious

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RE: Replacements? - 8/16/2007 7:30:04 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Eagle Strike

Hi Jason:

Is this file on for this particular DCG Campaign Game or would it be something that would help all DCG Campaigns? Just curious


This is strictly for the East Front Barbarossa Dynamic Campaigns.

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RE: Replacements? - 8/17/2007 1:20:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ahhhhh.. that was snappy! I knew there was some reason beyond just Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie that I liked Canada. I can only parrot others when they praise your enthusiasm and quick response time. Thank you!

As for divisional replacements; that makes sense, I just didn't realize it worked that way, I thought it was for my battalion specifically.

Cheers

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RE: Replacements? - 8/17/2007 1:59:48 AM   
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Ahhhhh.. that was snappy! I knew there was some reason beyond just Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie that I liked Canada. I can only parrot others when they praise your enthusiasm and quick response time. Thank you!


You're welcome. Hope it works, but it should!

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ORIGINAL: Grognard66
As for divisional replacements; that makes sense, I just didn't realize it worked that way, I thought it was for my battalion specifically.


Now you know!

Good luck compaigning!


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RE: Replacements? - 8/17/2007 9:00:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		Many thanks for the fix. I can continue my Barbarossa DCG now, fantastic!!

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RE: Replacements? - 9/16/2007 11:11:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		A couple of quick notes regarding DCG's.  I am playing a Soviet DCG now.  It just turned to '42 and my first mission in January started off with an "upgrades have arrived" message and I reckoned it had to be someone else in my corps.  Nope, it was me and my T-34's are now T-60's... can't say as I call that an upgrade.  However, that's small change compared to the mission.  It's a meeting engagement with 250 meter visibility. None of my units started on board, as per the usual meeting engagement but when I checked my reinforcements it appeared that I got a LOT of infantry.  Well, I did... sort of;  I got a total of 18 strength points split into "1" point sets but each came with 6 trucks.  I reckon I got one heckuva supply column pressed into service as infantry!  So it seems that part of the DCG's would still be pooched. 

Any sort of a fix in the works on this?  I thought I recalled seeing some mention of this and that it was fixed but I'll be darned if I can find it after an hour or so searching the various posts in the Bugs and in the general section.  My apologies if I was blind and this has been addressed.

Grognard

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RE: Replacements? - 9/16/2007 5:19:05 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Grognard66

A couple of quick notes regarding DCG's.  I am playing a Soviet DCG now.  It just turned to '42 and my first mission in January started off with an "upgrades have arrived" message and I reckoned it had to be someone else in my corps.  Nope, it was me and my T-34's are now T-60's... can't say as I call that an upgrade.  However, that's small change compared to the mission.  It's a meeting engagement with 250 meter visibility. None of my units started on board, as per the usual meeting engagement but when I checked my reinforcements it appeared that I got a LOT of infantry.  Well, I did... sort of;  I got a total of 18 strength points split into "1" point sets but each came with 6 trucks.  I reckon I got one heckuva supply column pressed into service as infantry!  So it seems that part of the DCG's would still be pooched. 

Any sort of a fix in the works on this?  I thought I recalled seeing some mention of this and that it was fixed but I'll be darned if I can find it after an hour or so searching the various posts in the Bugs and in the general section.  My apologies if I was blind and this has been addressed.

Grognard



Looks like the Soviets will need the same treatment that I did for the Germans. I will try to include a fix for 1.03.

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RE: Replacements? - 9/18/2007 1:56:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Same here. In the DCG, EF, russian in the setup mode I got six trucks plts with HQ but without infantry. In the same game I got my T-34 "upgraded" to T-60.
Is it possible to make upgrade more sane ? like light tanks upgrade to light tanks, medium to medium and heavy to heavy ?

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RE: Replacements? - 9/18/2007 3:42:06 PM   
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Any news on patch 1.03?

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RE: Replacements? - 9/18/2007 4:07:42 PM   
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RE: Replacements? - 11/15/2007 9:46:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know if this is a bug or just my imagination, anyway:

I get the feeling that, starting Barbarossa Dynamic Campaigns at battalion level, with the Easy option, there are too many enemy units, as if it were Normal instead of Easy. I get this feeling both as Axis or Russian, infantry or tank.

Or maybe it's just my imagination, wanting to save every unit, fearing for the lack of replacements?

By the way, is the replacement file above still valid for Dynamic Barbarossa campaigns, battalion level, game version 1.02b?

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RE: Replacements? - 11/15/2007 3:54:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Leopejo

I don't know if this is a bug or just my imagination, anyway:

I get the feeling that, starting Barbarossa Dynamic Campaigns at battalion level, with the Easy option, there are too many enemy units, as if it were Normal instead of Easy. I get this feeling both as Axis or Russian, infantry or tank.

Or maybe it's just my imagination, wanting to save every unit, fearing for the lack of replacements?

By the way, is the replacement file above still valid for Dynamic Barbarossa campaigns, battalion level, game version 1.02b?

That is not a bug. The enemy is rolled not by the amount of unit but by top formation. And the same kind of formation could have different amount of unit. You could be fighting a single one regiment, but there could be two or three or even four(I think) battalion in the regiment, and different type and amount of units in the battalions. Replacement file working for me after all tweaks. Don't worry too much about losing units - during the upgrade (DCG) the full complement will be restored (if you manage survive until the upgrade)

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RE: Replacements? - 11/15/2007 6:01:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Leopejo

I don't know if this is a bug or just my imagination, anyway:

I get the feeling that, starting Barbarossa Dynamic Campaigns at battalion level, with the Easy option, there are too many enemy units, as if it were Normal instead of Easy. I get this feeling both as Axis or Russian, infantry or tank.

Or maybe it's just my imagination, wanting to save every unit, fearing for the lack of replacements?


With the Easy option there is 30% less units than if you were playing a normal campaign. While there are a number of units, with the ease at which you can elimite/capture the computer players forces, this shouldn't be an issue. That comes with practice.

You will get repacements, no worries!

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ORIGINAL: Leopejo
By the way, is the replacement file above still valid for Dynamic Barbarossa campaigns, battalion level, game version 1.02b?


Yes, it is still valid with the 1.02B temporary patch. It will be included with the 1.03 update though!

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RE: Replacements? - 11/15/2007 6:03:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: serg3d
Don't worry too much about losing units - during the upgrade (DCG) the full complement will be restored (if you manage survive until the upgrade)


What do you think of the Company level upgrade?

It is the only way I have found to bypass the know 1SP bug during DCG's.

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RE: Replacements? - 11/15/2007 7:45:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Jason, when i play my DCG i never upgrade to the next organizational level because i dont get that much time to play and anything past battalion level just takes waaaaaaaaaay tooooooo long. Now, heres the question. By not accepting the promotion does that mean that my upgrades will be screwed up or they will not arrive in a somewhat timely manner? I know you have spent alot of time on us dynamic guys and believe me we appreciate your dedication. Semper Fi

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RE: Replacements? - 11/15/2007 7:49:47 PM   
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Jason, when i play my DCG i never upgrade to the next organizational level because i dont get that much time to play and anything past battalion level just takes waaaaaaaaaay tooooooo long. Now, heres the question. By not accepting the promotion does that mean that my upgrades will be screwed up or they will not arrive in a somewhat timely manner? I know you have spent alot of time on us dynamic guys and believe me we appreciate your dedication. Semper Fi


Regardless of your command level, the upgrades will happen at specific times during the campaign. Of course, if you are keeping to a battalion level, you might not see or notice the upgrades happening somewhere else in the division.

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RE: Replacements? - 11/16/2007 10:39:28 AM   
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What do you think of the Company level upgrade?
It is the only way I have found to bypass the know 1SP bug during DCG's.
Jason Petho


I think company level upgrade is just fine, but should me a little more often, if there will not be battalion level. And as I already told, probability of "downgrades" like T-34 to T-60 should be quite low. While such kind of things happened in reality, they were seldom, and anyway no fun.
BTW it's me serg3d - I lost access to may original account - changed mail to nonexistent :(

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RE: Replacements? - 3/22/2008 10:59:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		i have the 1.02B patch installed, and i can see the difference with the fix attached here are the comma's between the numbers.
so the removal of the commas is what made the actual 'fix'?

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RE: Replacements? - 3/22/2008 11:40:59 PM   
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i have the 1.02B patch installed, and i can see the difference with the fix attached here are the comma's between the numbers.
so the removal of the commas is what made the actual 'fix'?



That is correct, yes.

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RE: Replacements? - 4/2/2008 11:32:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		It seems to me I remember the Talonsoft version having a similar bug.  It didnt matter if I played the German or Russian, but in all 3 Barbarossa campaigns starting somewhere around Jan 42...give or take a week or so...all Rusian rifle platoons would arrive or start at 1sp.  Russian smg platoons were un affected as were russian guards...only Russian rifle platoons.  I dont know if talonsoft ever fixed that particular bug.  This was in EF2 Gold.

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RE: Replacements? - 4/2/2008 11:36:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		No, Borst, that is a different problem and has been corrected with the new Campaign OOB's.

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RE: Replacements? - 4/2/2008 11:47:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		LOL...well I wasnt sure, it sounded similar to me as I coud never add replacements to those platoons as the Russian commander.

To Paraphrase Mike Behin in Terminator;

"I dont know tech stuff."

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RE: Replacements? - 4/18/2008 6:25:05 PM   
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Hi Jason
I beginning a dcg in EF central front, and i'm in 10/41 now and no reinforcement coming, so i found thid thread and the file to DL.
Do you think i can modify the file to have a big reinforcement at this time ? if yes do i have to mod the 2 replacement file ? if it's work do i've to paste the unmodified file after my reinfs coming?
Thanks a lot to give a rebirth for this super game, perhaps the wargame i've most play inthe last 10 years.
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RE: Replacements? - 4/18/2008 6:29:23 PM   
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Hi Jason
I beginning a dcg in EF central front, and i'm in 10/41 now and no reinforcement coming, so i found thid thread and the file to DL.
Do you think i can modify the file to have a big reinforcement at this time ?


Yes, yes you can!

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if yes do i have to mod the 2 replacement file ?


If you wish to modify the Soviets, edit the Replacements0.dat; if you wish to modify the Germans, edit the Replacements1.dat

You do not have to edit both.


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ORIGINAL: philjat


if it's work do i've to paste the unmodified file after my reinfs coming?



That is correct, yes.


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ORIGINAL: philjat


Thanks a lot to give a rebirth for this super game, perhaps the wargame i've most play inthe last 10 years.
Philippe Jathan
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Our pleasure indeed! It's a game to be passionate about!

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RE: Replacements? - 4/18/2008 6:39:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Jason,
in the replacement file there are 2 row of number, so if i want 25 steps replacement i have to make : 411007 25 25 .
I'm right ?
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RE: Replacements? - 4/18/2008 7:30:16 PM   
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Jason,
in the replacement file there are 2 row of number, so if i want 25 steps replacement i have to make : 411007 25 25 .
I'm right ?



That would work, yes.

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RE: Replacements? - 4/19/2008 11:19:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Jason,

Well i don't understand how the replcement file work, for date it's ok but the 2 collum number ?

I've mod : 411007 9 15
and i receive only 2 steps of replacement ? is it normal ?

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