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6.1 fixes A) Internet Play has been fixed. B) Do to some online game play issues "Reduced Ammo" will not work in online play. C) Emplacements (HQ tents and Command posts) now help with reducing suppression. D) Entrenched troops can now be within 6 hexes of emplacements and receive help reducing suppression and rally. E) Lowered Russian chance of fanatically defending. F) Flamethrower accuracy improved. G) Rifles will be effective to a range of about 200 yards. Beyond 350 yards they will only be useful for suppression fire. H) Squad light machine guns will be effective to a range of about 400 yards. Beyond 500 yards they will only be useful for suppression fire. I) Medium and heavy crew served machine guns will be effective to a range of about 500 yards. At ranges of 300 to 500 hundred yards they can produce severe casualties against moving infantry. Beyond 750 yards they will be useful for suppression fire. This weapon is now a real killer. J) Armored fighting vehicle machine guns will be effective to a range of 200 to 500 yards, depending on the type and placement of the machine gun. If the vehicle is armed with a small bore cannon of 37mm or less, it will be useful for the player to turn off the main gun and use the coaxial machine gun at ranges greater than 200 yards and less than 500 yards, as at ranges greater than 200 yards the crew must take an experience check before it can fire the coaxial machine gun and at ranges of greater than 500 yards the cannon may be more accurate than the coaxial machine gun. K) Artillery is now slightly more effective than in version 6.0. L) Small units, of 4 men or less, are still size zero for spotting purposes, but are now size one for purposes of being hit and damaged. M) This means they are difficult to spot, but once spotted, are no harder to kill than normal units. The exception to this is the sniper, who is still quite difficult to spot and kill. N) Terrain cover has been reworked and is now of significantly greater importance. The player should always keep soft targets, such as guns and infantry in the best cover available. The difference to hit a target in good cover can be of an order of magnitude ten. Soft units in cover now take a good deal fewer casualties. O) For soft targets, movement is a serious danger. Especially, if moving in the open and within effective range of the attacking weapon. The player will need to move slowly and stay in good cover. A crewed machine gun 300 yards away may kill 6 or more men in a single shot, when firing against a squad moving in the open. P) Infantry are now harder to spot if 250 yards or more away and harder still, if 750 yards or more away. Q) Catastrophic destruction of buildings will now occur less frequently and require larger bore ordinance to bring them down. This allows greater use as cover. R) Bridges are now much harder to destroy, especially stone bridges, for which you need artillery of 170mm or greater, a bomb or a satchel charge. S) The ratio for troop purchase points has been changed from 1:1 to meeting engagements, 1.5:1 for advance missions and 2:1 for assaults to 1:1 for meeting engagements, 2:1 for advance missions and 3:1 for assaults. The increased effectiveness of cover and the disadvantage gained by moving units necessitates greater forces when attacking. T) The to hit chance displayed in the data box, after a unit has fired, has been recalculated for rifles and sub-machine pistols, when those weapons are in slot one. The value no longer needs to be multiplied by the number of men in the squad. So, now if the chance displayed is 15%, that is the chance for all men in the squad combined, to hit. Please note that since the men in the target receive a saving throw against the fire, they may still sometimes go to ground and take no casualties. U) Victory Point Change - This is a big change -- for some reason, killed men have always been counted as only 1 victory point, no matter what unit they are from or what their unit cost is. In order to make the set unit costs (and increased unit costs, like general Rommel in your example) be counted, killed infantry units are now counted at their unit cost in victory points. Partially-killed units are worth the proper proportional amount. What's Available in SPWaW v6.0 Release 01) HEAT random variable fixed. 02) "Light infantry" and "ski troops" classes now able to melee and be overrun. 03) Elite/poor status on formations now taken into account on unit cost. 04) Fixed "random start line" w/custom maps not working when map has river or beach settings. 05) Fixed reinforcement & retreat hexes not appearing with custom maps (these are not saved with |the maps, so they appear in the default location). 06) Removed "view map" button from reinforcement screen (was causing mines to disappear and other oddities). 07) Fixed unit costs calculating wrongly when "True Troop Cost" was on and "Historical Ratings" were off. 08) Average visibility in random battles is increased. 09) Fixed reloaded online/timed games getting all ammo back. 10) Added preference setting for special op fire frequency. 11) Increased art vs. infantry damage. 12) More Infantry Casualties. 13) Fix bad game sounds. 14) Complete new set of OOB's 15) Some Sound files have been corrected to help those getting strange results. 16) Bottom hits use 1/3 side armor rather than 1/4 so MGs shouldn't kill tanks as often 17) Armor angle calculation tweaked (compound angle is somewhat larger than before) 18) Effects of compound angles tweaked (Slope effect reduced somewhat) 19) Ricochet incidence reduced somewhat 20) Casualty computation scrubbed, better accounting for leadership fire direction, artillery casualties and protection of units entrenched, in-cover and in protective terrain. Bottom line is artillery casualties are increased and small arms casualties decreased, and exposure for firing reduced for entrenched troops so firing doesn't strip them of cover as much. 21) "Save" for men killed reduced for larger warheads. 22) Special OpFire multipliers increased for close range and decreased for long range. 23) Dial to control the amount of special OpFire added. 24) Completly re-programmed the infantry and small arms fire code. What Available in SPWaW v5.3 Release 01) Added Mega Campaign support. This will not include the editor but will include a very small Mega Campaign demo. 02) Level bombers and naval gun classes added and now act like off-board artillery. Level bombers maybe assigned on Turn 0 (i.e., before the battle). 03) On the bombardment screen before the battle, you can set a specific turn for bombardments (like for gliders & paratroops). 04) Added overrun combat. These are for enemies in the same hex. Overrun is Alt-O (overrun). 05) Added melee combat. These are for enemies in the same hex. Melee is Alt-M (melee) 06) The @ key changes ranges from hexes, to yards, to meters. Note: the ranges on the unit info screen remain in hexes, since there wasn't room for larger numbers. 07) PBEM security violations now give a prompt to override the warning and load it up anyway. 08) Setting range in online/timed play no longer asks you twice. 09) Added tank panic - infantry may run from tanks as they move (like trucks do). 10) Added "battle difficulty" button in Generated & Long campaigns to affect the number of points for the AI. 11) Fixed music-on setting. Some PC were crashing when playing certain songs. 12) Indirect fire adjustment delay was slightly reduced. 13) Removed Soviet purchase advantage. 14) Purchase point values for computer opponent (which start out equal to your base force normal points plus all support points, whether or not you use them) were reduced from x1 for defend, x1 for delay, x1 for meeting, x4 for advance, x7 for assault to x.50 for defend, x.66 for delay, x1 for meeting, x1.5 for advance and x2 for assault. 15) Fixed waypoints vanishing after buying more units in the scenario editor. 16) Fixed units ignoring waypoints once they get shot at or bombed. 17) Added message informing user that the program is exiting in online/timed play at end of battle. 18) Fixed modified unit cost & size not sticking in scenario editor when reloaded. 19) Computer opponent should now purchase fewer artillery batteries and air strikes. As it will need to spend its points on something, it will purchase more of other things. 20) The computer opponent, when playing early war Belgium, Holland or France will now purchase substantially fewer tanks. Combined with less artillery, expect a lot of infantry. 21) In randomly generated battles, when fighting Germans: Canada, India, ANZAC and the USA will now fight in the desert from the beginning of 1940 to the end of 1942. 22) In randomly generated battles, anyone fighting the Italians (except the Soviets) from the beginning of 1940 to the end of 1942 will fight in the desert. 23) In randomly generated battles, anyone fighting the Italians (except the Soviets) from the beginning of 1943 to the end of 1945 will fight in Southern Europe. 24) In randomly generated battles, when fighting the Germans: Canada, Britain and the USA will fight in Southern Europe in 1943 and Northwester Europe in 1944-45. 25) The weather routines were rewritten. In all types of battles, the visibility should now reflect the conditions better than before. Bad weather now reduces visibility severely, as does darkness. 26) Level bombers may no longer be purchased at night or when the player lacks air superiority. They can be purchased when ever air strikes can be. As they are artillery, the strike limit does not apply to them. 27) The message displayed when level bombers are bombing is no longer "Med Bomber firing indirect fire, range 60", but is now, "Med Bombers bombing area". 28) Strike groups and level bombers purchased by the computer opponent are now much less likely to attack at night, in the middle of a severe thunderstorm or in a sandstorm. 29) Dawn and dusk air strikes have been removed because the graphic makes it look like night. So air strikes and level bombers are now available from 7 am to 5 pm. 30) Computer opponent purchase routines were generally rewritten, as all the formations got moved around, during the many upgrades to the orders of battle. 31) Mortars now take up space in transport vehicles equal to the number of men in the mortar unit, unless they have a 100 series weight. 32) Fixed bug where game would crash in multiplayer at beginning of player #4's turn. 33) Fixed some bugs in the infantry close assault routine that were making the success chance higher than it is supposed to be. 34) Units of the classes "motorized engineer" and "armored engineer" now do all the special stuff that the "engineer" class does. 35) Added to the list of unit classes which lose primary weapon shots after moving (which were MG, mortar, heavy mortar, and heavy MG) are AT Gun, Flak, howitzer, artillery, and infantry guns. 35) Surrendering now forfeits the end-of-battle victory hex points and doesn't count remaining turns for the turn-by-turn hexes. 36) Player control numbers over the units have a "P" in front of them (3 or more players only) to avoid confusion with the # of men numbers. 37) Removed turn display from special forces reinforcement info in deployment so they can't be reassigned once you notice they weren't coming. 38) Reduced vehicle breakdown chances by one-third and weapon breakdown by half. Also increased chance of repair for both (weapon more so than vehicle). 39) Added a toggle for the "asterisk" display, the hotkey is the asterisk key. This hotkey is disabled for online and PBEM games. Online and PBEM games use the host's "asterisk setting". 40) Fixed smoke ammo in online play being too low. 41) Made some changes in the armor penetration model. There will also be a substantial upgrade to the armor combat model in 5.0 APCR performance has been greatly enhanced, depicting its performance much more accurately. T/D effects have been revised based on better curve fitting and a couple new data sets from Combat Leader research. A new ricochet tweak improves the depiction of the "critical angle" so ricochet probability will be low below critical angle and ramp up quickly. All this assumes lots of things, but less things are generalized than before! You should get fewer "945,395mm armor" results now and small T/D ratios will now ricochet much less often (so 88 hitting at grazing angles will act like an iceberg on the Titanic more than a stone on the water) 42) Fixed preference-changing loophole in PBEM games. 43) Fixed bug with loading non-infantry on trucks. 44) Fixed "done" button not appearing when getting reinforcements during battle in online play. 45) Stuart Millis, Mike Amos and Mike Wood have truly made these OOBs the best ones yet. I sure everyone will find a few nice surprises. 46) Wild Bill and his team have gone over and updated over 170+ scenarios and also added 4 brand new campaigns. 47) Don LIewellyn and Bill Wilder scenario tutorials will be included. These detail tutorials are for the new as well as experience player. 48) Paul Lewis and Nick Papp have added over 450 new graphics into the game. 50) Major AI improvements have been done. The AI will now pick much better forces and correct formations for each nationally 51) We have added a feature that will allow gamers to add and use there own custom graphics for their scenarios and campaigns. These graphics will also now appear in the scenario editor. This feature is for the scenario author that wants it all. 52) The latest versions of Fred Chlanda programs for SPWaW will be included. 53) Harri Pesonen PBEM program will be included. This program is used to auto send turn-based game files between opponents. It handles zipping the file then e-mailing it. 54) Added an option that the Japanese may Banzai and the Soviet units may go Berserk when in melee. Other nations have a smaller chance if getting a special attack and defend bonus during melee. Also terrain will increase and decrease losses during melee combat. 55) Brent Richards and Kevin Greer are redoing the manual. You can expect a even more detail manual. 56) Marsh vehicle breakdown has been raised a little higher. 57) Fixed objectives vanishing after buying more units in the scenario editor. 58) Added the feature to the scenario editor to tell you the Icon and SHP file each graphic shown in the editor. 59) Gamers can now added there own custom graphics and use them in the scenario editor and use them in your scenarios and campaigns. 60) The Polish should now take far fewer tanks and will now also use cavalry. 61) Changed tank panic message, made infantry-AT unit class immune to tank panic. 62) Fixed range display on 'c' screen. 63) Added new keys to help screens. 64) Added version number to first screen. 65) Added new code for high-penetration HVAP gun ammo (penetration 251-255). 66) Fixed some units not following waypoints when defending or delaying. Units may abandon their waypoints when a unit in the formation is destroyed. 67) Reduced chance of units surrendering outside of melee. 68) Units of "Cargo Aircraft" class are now restricted to carrying units of "Airborne Infantry" class. 69) Fixed not being able to edit bomber entry turn in editor once saved and reloaded. 70) Eliminate units surrendering to planes 71) Overrunning a gun: The Overrunning player now has a chance of destroying the gun. The Overrunning player also has a chance of immobilizing tank during the assault. 72) Air entry in online play uses opponents settings for both players. This has been corrected. 73) Fixed when largest size random map crashes when "beach" is selected 74) Fixed computer in online play so it will move and attack now. 75) Fixed beach map generation crashing with big maps. 76) Fixed desert-rough wrong tile being used. 77) Undid paratroop restriction - instead, non-paratroopers take much more suppression from the drop. 78) Units no longer surrender to planes. 79) Fixed computer units not moving in online play. 80) Level bombers will now scatter -5 to +5 hexes along the x axis and along the y axis and then drop all their bombs in a straight line, at the rate of two per hex. 81) Units should no longer gain recon ability when upgrading or repairing during any type of Campaigns. 82) Added a save prompt when exiting the scenario editor. 83) Increased overrun casualties, lowered chance of tank immobilized by overrun. 84) Fixed mid-move op-fire not happening in online play. 85) Added a Yes / No prompt before you exit a scenario design or map session without saving. 86) Added a Yes / No prompt after hitting the 'load all' button. 87) Changed tank panic to happen a little less. Its now also modified by nationality: Japan, Finland panic less often; Italy, Rumania, Hungary, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Soviet (May and Sept of 1941 & 1942 only), Greece, Nat. China, and Bulgaria more often. 88) Tank panic is now restricted by unit class. Immune units within 3 hexes also keep other units f rom panicking. 89) Fixed a loophole where units loading would then have the suppression value of the transport, so loading and unloading a unit could be used to restore suppression. 90) Added hotkey alt-J to center map on a specific hex. 91) Added hex coordinates for units on HQ screen. This will make it easier for you to find a unit using the new alt-J feature. 92) Immobilized units no longer dig in. 93) "Special op fire" now takes the unit's suppression into account, also displays more specific messages. 94) Air units in online play should now come and go properly instead of using the other player's settings. 95) We have broken down Op-Fire to three levels. Point Blank Op-Fire is triggered when ever a moving unit moves moves next. If the unit is in a defense stance it will be triggered from 1 - 3 hexes away. 96) Special Op-Fire: It will now considered the units suppression level and will also add a small amount of suppression every time you Special Op-Fire. So the more you shoot the more suppression the unit receives. 97) Return OP-Fire will happen when one of your units gets shot at. There is a chance it will fire back even if it has used all of its shots. 98) VCR replay option has been re-coded. 99) Improve and added more detail to the weather routines. 100) We have updated all of our units LBM pictures 101) We have added a lot of detail to close assaults routines. Gamers should notice that units should be able to assault bunkers and forts now without so many morale check failures. 102) Unit Costs System - If "True Troop Cost" is set to on it now gives a more accurate method of determining a unit's cost based on their base experience level. Units that start with lower base experience will cost less and units with high experience will cost more. 103) Unit Victory Points - If "True Troop Cost" is set to on Victory points scored for destroyed units also take their experience into account. Units that start with lower base experience will be worth less victory points then units that have experience and are lost. 104) Rarity Ratings - When "True Troop Cost" is on units rarity ratings now come into play. Units that were rare or out of production will have a greater chance of not being available to the player. A unit's rarity affects their chances of being available on the purchase menus. Units currently unavailable will now show up in red on the purchase screen. Also when playing via the Internet two commanders on the same side when not have the same units available to them. 105) Out of Production units may now be available even after it was being made. Units whose production availablity has passed may be available, but at only half the normal chance (per year). 106) Units Rarity Ratings are now rechecked after you purchase each one of them. Note: if you delete a formation that is rechecked and now no longer available, you cannot buy them back, so be careful! 107) Changed True Troop Cost button on preferences screen to allow different settings for True Troop Cost and Rarity. 108) Fixed bug with the unit value display. Note: if a unit has been given a custom cost, this value will be modified by their experience as any other unit's is. If you want the value to be exact, either give them experience 70, or adjust the value until it comes out right on the unit-view screen (where the modified value is shown). 109) We also added more custom maps. D-Day beach maps, including Sword, Utah, Juno, Omaha, and Gold, plus Pointe du Hoc and many others. 110) Undo button is disabled in online games. 111) Fixed auto-buying not using the True Troop Cost properly. 112) VCR replay hot-key changed from V to alt-V. 113) Enemy forces now break less easily. Also added a message to indicate when they do break. 114) Victory hexes worth 0 points are no longer shown (except in the editor). 115) Fix units on bridges disappearing between PBEM turns. 116) Melee & overrun now take the Infantry Toughness setting into account. 120) Units in the same hex are no longer automatically spotted. Note: units that fire are always automatically spotted (unless they are Sniper class). 121) Fixed units not getting kills or experience or victory points in melee & overrun. Fixed same for AA guns vs. aircraft. 122) Fixed some infantry not being able to be overrun (due to class #). 123) Removed end-of-battle map from surrendered PBEM games to prevent a cheat. 124) When a player has hit the "time out" key (F2), F12 no longer unpauses, so they can use Roger Wilco without unpausing. 126) Fixed unit's target being set to its previous target in OpFire confirm. 127) After selecting special terrain types, city grids were being created using those types, instead of wooden and stone buildings. FIXED. 128) In the computer opponent phase, when a vehicle controlled by the computer moved or fired, it always refaced the turret to directly forward, before the player could opportunity fire or return fire. The player did not have this ability. FIXED. 129) Computer opponent should now pick infantry force more often when playing against Soviets and less often, when playing against Germans. 130) The German computer opponent should now place armor in deep reserve less often.131) The computer opponent should no longer buy a ton mines and place them along the river bank when defending against a river crossing. This made it just about impossible for a human player to get across. 132) The computer opponent should now buy armored or motorized infantry less often when assaulting a river. 133) The computer opponent should now put armor in reserves less often when assaulting a river. 134) The computer opponent should now take a more pro-active defense in defending rivers. 135) The computer opponent should now use armor more aggressively, when assaulting rivers. 136) The computer opponent can now search better for bridges, when assaulting a river. 137) Improved AI handling of troops and improved some its game tactics. 138) Fixed bug with unloading assault boats taking casualties and then restoring them. 139) "special op fire" messages now appear in pop-up box too. 140) Alt-J now can jump to a specific scenario # on the main menu and the editor menus. 141) Added file log for the combat text, called combat.txt, turned on from within the game by the Alt -L hotkey. This logs the text in the bottom window, as well as that "% chance to hit" window that pops up during the attack. 142) U.S. artillery speed bonus now on/off with national characteristics preference. 143) Added the morale/experience check to the NearKill routine. 144) No longer able to buy air units in bad weather. 145) Op fire shots will no longer be used up on crews more than 2 hexes away. 146) AI buys less tanks for river crossings. 147) Changes to HE and HEAT penetration code 148) Fixed targeting screen not starting with the current target. 149) Fixed unit class 70 (special forces) not being able to melee. 150) Fixed suppression for nearby units being killed not happening. 151) Fixed "special op fire" message popping up when unit wouldn't shoot and "return op fire" when the target unit was moving, not shooting. 152) Added casualties to bottom of screen box. 153) Fixed the units barreling into buildings when there was a road or track in the building hex.

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Originally posted by Paul Vebber: AS I said some time ago, just click twice on the unit and its all around movement radius will appear. Its just too hard to fix for teh minor annoyance it is...