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ORIGINAL: Zeitgeist

Has anyone ever thought of doing this?

Before asking that, what do you all think it would take (what changes would need be made) to similate this conflict (other than the necessary OOB changes)

Your thoughts?

Patrick

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ORIGINAL: IAN 1963

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ORIGINAL: Zeitgeist

Has anyone ever thought of doing this?

Before asking that, what do you all think it would take (what changes would need be made) to similate this conflict (other than the necessary OOB changes)

Your thoughts?

Patrick

With regard to re - gigging the game to give an early 20th contrary feel. I think the trick here would be to find fun a way of simulating the fact that all (with one very important exception) tactical communication had to be physical, (runners) visual (signal flags and lamps) or telephone based.

The important exception was the direction of artillery fire by radio from aircraft. Something the British Army got very good at and ,one of the main reasons they were willing to accept such horrendous casualties in aircrew to keep an aircraft presence over enemy lines.

I would suggest the best way to simulate this would be as follows.

1.To be eligible to move all on map units must be within command control range of a leader or. Command control range would be the units command rating. That is to say a 5 leader would empower units within 5 hexes. Taking this approach would encourage formations to bunch together and slow down as leader casualties were taken. (both historical) It also enables you to control the quality of a unit directly by the number of leaders it has. Something that the figure wargames rules “Over The Top” also did particularly for late war Russian units.

2.Introduce static artillery forward observer units. (They cease to function if forced to move away from their start hexes, where their telephone links are) Also artillery fire missions which are plotted on hexes observed either by a forward observer or a spotter aircraft arrive with the current delay whereas all others take quite a lot longer.

3.Bring in barrage balloons which would work as static spotter plains, possibly with an even faster on call fire time because of the more direct and securer communication link. They could also be shot at by AA guns and have (balloon busting air strikes plotted against them.

Ian

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to give an early 20th contrary feel. I think the trick here would be to find fun a way of simulating the fact that all (with one very important exception) tactical communic

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ORIGINAL: IAN 1963

With regard to re - gigging the game to give an early 20th contrary feel. I think the trick here would be to find fun a way of simulating the fact that all (with one very important exception) tactical communication had to be physical, (runners) visual (signal flags and lamps) or telephone based.

The important exception was the direction of artillery fire by radio from aircraft. Something the British Army got very good at and ,one of the main reasons they were willing to accept such horrendous casualties in aircrew to keep an aircraft presence over enemy lines.

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Mike/Patrick/Ian,   Thanks for your interest in my WWI Mod. Sorry to take so long to reply, but I rarely check my emails these days (see point 3 below!).   My work on the mod has come to a halt, for three reasons;   1) The project as a mod of the old Talonsoft West front is pretty much complete. Any further work I think should really wait until we see what changes are made to the game engine if Matrix decide to publish. I have made some requests for changes that would better reflect WWI era warfare, and I am waiting to see what happens. The mod is very comprehensive, it covers all the combatant nations in great detail, allowing for scenarios covering all the theatres of WWI and extending to cover the Russian Civil War and the Russo-Polish War. I have all the graphics that I need apart from some obscure armoured cars, I don't think that the Baltic General site can help with this.   2) After four years of spending every single spare minute on this mod, I am rather burnt out and need a break.   3) My family and work commitments have expanded over the last year to leave me with very little spare time to work on it.   After spending so long working on this, it would be a shame to let it go to waste. I still hope one day to be able to work with Matrix in releasing this game.     regards     Paul
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