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ORIGINAL: Lord Zimoa

Hello Everyone,

We have a new public beta ready for testing. It is available at Matrix:

Commander: The Great War Open Beta Patch v 1.40 is now available:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3501274

Below is a list of changes for this build.
V1.4.0 – December 19, 2013

• Gameplay changes / balancing:
o New land unit Small Garrison added to the game.
o First Russian Revolution date changed from February 1916, to February 1917.
o USA war entry merchant convoy losses reduced.( USA WAR ENTRY NOW MORE LIKELY )
o City name change Southampton renamed Portsmouth.(This was the main British Naval base during WORLD WAR 1)
o Additional Fortresses added to the map include : Metz,Novo-Georgievsk,Arad.
o The following cities have been upgraded to Capitals : Dublin,Helsinki,Algiers,
o The following additional Cities have been added to the map : Brugge,Larissa,Kraljevo,Veliko Tarnovo.
o Added Cuxhaven,Stettin,Tallin,Oran,Toulon,Cattaro,Suez,Port Said,Gaza,Beirut,Aquba,Kuwait ports.
o Significantly increased Port defensive & offensive bonuses.
o French Infantry unit in North Africa based in Algeirs, added to the map.
o Turkey,Serbia,Bulgaria,Romania now have Artillery.
o Disbanding your Countries Battlefleets incurrs a minus 30 morale penalty.
o Ship defense increased, Battleships are now much more damage resistant.
o Russian Battleship now based in Petrograd.
o Cruisers now have bombardment capability.
o All Scenario Fleet sizes increased.
o Battleship, Cruiser build times increased.
o Anti-Submarine technology upgrade effects reduced.( Submarine warfare is now a viable option )
o Submarine Production costs lowered,Build time lowered,Line of sight increased,Attack & Defence increased, meaning they are now a potential war winning weapon.
o Bomber,Artillery effectivness reduced

Various other bug fixes....

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Hi Guys a huge amount of work went into getting this beta ready for testing before xmas enjoy everyone.[;)]

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Glad you like the changes so far,there are a few changes to the game play, and hopefully you will find they are for the better.

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Countries Population has risen slightly,plus all major Countries morale has been increased at start of 1914 Campaign.The PP & MP has been calculated to cope with the increased variety of units that are now available at start of game play.The naval game especially the Submarine side of it at least, has been enhanced,sorry to say but the Naval AI still needs a lot of work to fix its decision making, because at the present time its illogical.[:)]

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Countries Population has risen slightly,plus all major Countries morale has been increased at start of 1914 Campaign.The PP & MP has been calculated to cope with the increased variety of units that are now available at start of game play.The naval game especially the Submarine side of it at least, has been enhanced,sorry to say but the Naval AI still needs a lot of work to fix its decision making, because at the present time its illogical.[:)]

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Hello folks, if you can drag yourselves away from the game for moment, can you post reaction's to the new patch please, I'm very interested to hear your thought's, and tweak the patch some more if needed, before the game goes to official release.[:)]

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Hi Suprass81 the Artillery in the 1.30 patch was to powerful as your correctly noted in the 1.40 patch I toned there effects down a little, Bombers were also much to powerful, so they got the same treatment as the Artillery units,Armoured cars & Armoured trains are now more useful, it was the Submarine warfare that needed to be more effective, so that gamer's would be happier to build more, and that the naval game would be much more interesting, sorry to say but I'm biased towards the naval game, but I have to say the game needed more naval action.