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ORIGINAL: operating

Kirk, if you are reading this: Where did your screenshot TUTORIAL go that was in the top forum subsection (I think)? One of the members wants to know how to do ss. I searched back quite aways but could not find it...

Thanks, Bob

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ORIGINAL: operating

Kirk

Is there an icon that can be put into the unit information window that would indicate that a unit has a Hood or Gas Mask? Other than a combat prognosis attack by an artillery unit, there is no way to know for certain what a unit's capabilities are. Any thoughts on this?

Bob
Unit information screen:



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ORIGINAL: kirk23

The problem was caused because I put a port on the map at Trondheim, which the Convoy can't pass if Norway is neutral, this problem has been solved for any future patches.[:)]

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-- USA relationship drops several times when a certain number of convoys have been killed
function ConvoyAttacks(attacker, defender)
if defender.prototype ~= nil and defender.prototype.name == "convoy" then
if attacker.faction.alliance.id == 2 then
if GetEvent("ConvoyAttacks1") == 0 then
local convoyLosses = 0
for faction in game:GetAllianceById(1).factions do
convoyLosses = convoyLosses + faction.luaData.statsCasualties["convoy"]
end
if convoyLosses > 400 then
SetEvent("ConvoyAttacks1", game.turn)
local usa = game:GetFactionById(10)
ChangeFactionAlignment(usa, attacker.faction.alliance, -15)
end
end

if GetEvent("ConvoyAttacks2") == 0 then
local convoyLosses = 0
for faction in game:GetAllianceById(1).factions do
convoyLosses = convoyLosses + faction.luaData.statsCasualties["convoy"]
end
if convoyLosses > 800 then
SetEvent("ConvoyAttacks2", game.turn)
local usa = game:GetFactionById(10)
ChangeFactionAlignment(usa, attacker.faction.alliance, -25)
end
end
elseif attacker.faction.alliance.id == 1 and true then -- Add condition for not in Baltic
if GetEvent("BlockadeEstablished") == 0 then
SetEvent("BlockadeEstablished", game.turn)
game:GetFactionById(2).luaData.blockaded = 1
end
end
end
end

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ORIGINAL: AdmiralSarek

Simple thing for naval bombardments, either remove all strategic attack from the ships or make all cities have coastal defenses which damage the ships.
The current situation is a nonsense, especially for the ottoman empire who can be naval bombarded back into the stone age.



Another thing to consider is the German convoy in the Baltic, it is far to easy to stop and far to large a convoy. Entente just has 5-6 subs at a cost of 5-6 pp per turn to stop about 25 German (on average) pp per turn, just silly. Allowing the players to control where the convoys go won't fix this as there is not enough space.

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ORIGINAL: operating

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ORIGINAL: AdmiralSarek

Simple thing for naval bombardments, either remove all strategic attack from the ships or make all cities have coastal defenses which damage the ships.
The current situation is a nonsense, especially for the ottoman empire who can be naval bombarded back into the stone age.



Another thing to consider is the German convoy in the Baltic, it is far to easy to stop and far to large a convoy. Entente just has 5-6 subs at a cost of 5-6 pp per turn to stop about 25 German (on average) pp per turn, just silly. Allowing the players to control where the convoys go won't fix this as there is not enough space.

Ahoy Admiral!

When the game was first released the only fleets at that time that could bombard was Battleships (BB's), cruisers received that ability some patches later, now of course: Dreadnaughts, Pre-dreadnaughts, Armed-cruisers and Light-cruisers have that ability. To me the game is a lot more enjoyable with these fleets having bombardment capability. Now you made a suggestion that had not been aired before: "Coastal Defense". It's something to ponder.[8|] Could it be a category married to techs in some way? Like: Actually building shore guns or minelaying, maybe anti-ship boom/nets.

Captain Bob[:)]

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ORIGINAL: AdmiralSarek

Having to create a special unit is no good, to hard, fortifications were already in place
For example the ones near where I live http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head,_New_Zealand
note the minefields as well.

When you attack a ship in a port you take lots of damage, should be the same as attacking a city.
Coastal defenses where common.

Perhaps the easiest is to just remove the strategic bombardment, ships ability to general land bombardments always seems to be overrated.

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The first ships to arrive their destination were Gayret-i Vataniye and Muavenet-i Milliye, which entered the port of Odessa at 3:00 am on October 29. There was only minimal resistance by the Russians who were caught the surprise. A Russian gunboat, Donetsk, was sunk with a torpedo fired from Gayret-i Vataniye, another gunboat, Kubanets, was damaged by gunfire, the minelayer Beshtau was set on fire and four merchant ships were damaged. The two Turkish destroyers shelled the port for around one hour, destroying the power station and damaged the oil facilities. Meanwhile Samsun laid a total of 28 mines between Odessa and Sevastopol. All the three ships then returned safely to Istanbul.

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ORIGINAL: suprass81

Ottoman Empire can't save Constantinople from destroing it with russians sea bombsrdment. They can block onlly way in to Black Sea and you can't do nothing. Maybe removing port hex to Black Sea will fix this problem?

Have to admit it's a tough spot for the Turks, however there is an in game solution if a player plans for it, something the AI I doubt would do (AH subs to Black Sea).

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Central Powers player,can stop Russian warships bombarding Constantinople,just place the Turkish Light cruiser,and the German Armoured cruiser into the green dot area next to Constantinople,the Russian surface fleet can no longer bombard Constantinople,because the Central Powers have a huge defensive advantage within their own GREEN DOT AREA!


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In post #17, that suggested site I posted said this:

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Souchon's Black Sea Raid

On October 27, battle-cruisers Yavuz and Midilli; cruisers Hamidiye, Berk-i Satvet and Peyk-i ªevket; destroyers Gayret-i Vataniye, Muavenet-i Milliye, Taºoz and Samsun; and minelayers Nilüfer and Samsun assembled off the coast of Kilyos, north of Istanbul and set sail to the Black Sea. It was the first time after almost four decades that the Turkish fleet was entering the Black Sea on a mission.

To be Historically correct: there should be a Turkish fleet on the Black Sea side of Constantinople "before" turn 10 of the game, which in essence would block a player's Russian Navy from blocking the Bosporus Straits and start bombarding Constantinople. The Russians could not be there for the Turk navy was already there (on Oct. 27, 1914)...[;)]

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ORIGINAL: operating

Kirk, you remember when you suggested doing this?:

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kirk23
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ORIGINAL: suprass81

Ottoman Empire can't save Constantinople from destroing it with russians sea bombsrdment. They can block onlly way in to Black Sea and you can't do nothing. Maybe removing port hex to Black Sea will fix this problem?

Have to admit it's a tough spot for the Turks, however there is an in game solution if a player plans for it, something the AI I doubt would do (AH subs to Black Sea).

kirk wrote:
Central Powers player,can stop Russian warships bombarding Constantinople,just place the Turkish Light cruiser,and the German Armoured cruiser into the green dot area next to Constantinople,the Russian surface fleet can no longer bombard Constantinople,because the Central Powers have a huge defensive advantage within their own GREEN DOT AREA!


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In post #17, that suggested site I posted said this:

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Souchon's Black Sea Raid

On October 27, battle-cruisers Yavuz and Midilli; cruisers Hamidiye, Berk-i Satvet and Peyk-i ªevket; destroyers Gayret-i Vataniye, Muavenet-i Milliye, Taºoz and Samsun; and minelayers Nilüfer and Samsun assembled off the coast of Kilyos, north of Istanbul and set sail to the Black Sea. It was the first time after almost four decades that the Turkish fleet was entering the Black Sea on a mission.

To be Historically correct: there should be a Turkish fleet on the Black Sea side of Constantinople "before" turn 10 of the game, which in essence would block a player's Russian Navy from blocking the Bosporus Straits and start bombarding Constantinople. The Russians could not be there for the Turk navy was already there (on Oct. 27, 1914)...[;)]

Kilyos


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İzmir is a city in the western extremity of Anatolia and the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara.[1][2] İzmir's metropolitan area extends along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir and inland to the north across Gediz River's of delta, to the east along an alluvial plain created by several small streams and to a slightly more rugged terrain in the south. The ancient city was known as Smyrna (Greek: Σμύρνη Smyrni), and the city was generally referred to as Smyrna in English, until the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930 made "İzmir" the internationally recognized name.

The city of İzmir is composed of several metropolitan districts. Of these, Konak district corresponds to historical İzmir, this district's area having constituted the "İzmir Municipality" (Turkish: İzmir Belediyesi) area until 1984, Konak until then having been a name for a central neighborhood around Konak Square, still the core of the city. With the constitution of the "Greater İzmir Metropolitan Municipality" (Turkish: İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi), the city of İzmir became a compound bringing together initially nine, and more recently eleven metropolitan districts, namely Balçova, Bayraklı, Bornova, Buca, Çiğli, Gaziemir, Güzelbahçe, Karabağlar, Karşıyaka, Konak and Narlıdere. Almost all of these settlements are former district centers or neighborhoods which stood on their own, with their own distinct features and temperament. In an ongoing processus, the Mayor of İzmir was also vested with authority over the areas of additional districts reaching from Bergama in the north to Selçuk in the south, bringing the number of districts to be considered as being part of İzmir to twenty-one under the new arrangements, two of these having been administratively included in İzmir only partially.

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ORIGINAL: stockwellpete

I have just finished my first full solo game for perhaps a year or so now. The game played very well and appears stable - and there are a lot of new features to add to the overall interest. I played as Central Powers on the middle level of difficulty and I achieved an ultimate victory by late 1918 (the USA did not enter the war).

Initially I was held by both the French and the Serbs, but I made more progress against the Russians and eventually encircled and destroyed their army in Poland. I then destroyed their fleet as well. The Italians joined the war in 1915 so the western front was fairly well deadlocked, but I continued to make progress against the Russians and finally forced them out of the war in the spring of 1916 after capturing Moscow. The Turks were able to hold the Russians in the Caucasus and once the Russians had surrendered they were able to move units to Palestine. The next breakthrough was against the French in late 1916 and the Germans took Verdun then broke through completely and took Paris. By early 1917 the French surrendered, then the Italians did as well after losing Milan. The Romanians surrendered when facing total encirclement shortly afterwards and the Portuguese capitulated without firing a shot! The war continued against the British who were all alone now - but once Germany began a massive naval building programme they too surrendered in the autumn of 1918 (the Turks, with German assistance, were pushing them back in Palestine too).

I think this was a very plausible alternate history. There were just a few oddities. Both the Russian Revolution special events appeared on the screen even though the Russians had surrendered; an incomplete Goeben warship message appeared when I moved that unit and a fully complete message appeared about two turns later; the Italians appeared to be mass producing artillery but never got any of it into action (perhaps there needs to be limits on how many units a nation can have at any time?).

Overall, very good though - and I shall try again next week on the hardest level.

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ORIGINAL: operating

Noticed the ship icons do not display "Triple Turrets" on both dreadnaughts and light cruisers:


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ORIGINAL: stockwellpete

I played a second solo game as the Central Powers, this time on the hardest level, and again I achieved an ultimate victory (by early 1918). The Russians surrendered at the end of 1916 but the two Russian revolution captions came up again afterwards. There were no other bugs that I could see. My conclusion is that Germany is a bit too strong in terms of its PP production. I won the game comfortably and I knew I would win as early as mid 1915. Maybe the PP available to Germany could be tweaked a bit?

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ORIGINAL: TripleCP

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ORIGINAL: stockwellpete

I played a second solo game as the Central Powers, this time on the hardest level, and again I achieved an ultimate victory (by early 1918). The Russians surrendered at the end of 1916 but the two Russian revolution captions came up again afterwards. There were no other bugs that I could see. My conclusion is that Germany is a bit too strong in terms of its PP production. I won the game comfortably and I knew I would win as early as mid 1915. Maybe the PP available to Germany could be tweaked a bit?

I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from thumping the AI. I just finished my second game in a row playing against a Privileged Central Powers AI in which the Germans never captured Brussels (and lost 3-4 armies that tried to bypass/encircle it), lost Koenigsberg in the autumn of 1914 (Danzig, too, in the second game), and were completely on the defensive on the Eastern and Western Fronts by the Christmas Truce event. In the first game, they surrendered in spring 1916 just before it appeared that the British were going to narrowly beat the Russians to Berlin. In the second, the Russians took Berlin on 15 April 1915 and Germany surrendered later that summer, with Austria following in autumn and the Ottomans in early 1916. Italy was able to walk into Trento and Trieste on their first turn in both games, and Serbia never had to yield any territory beyond the northwestern hex that the Austrians always attack on their opening turn. In my next Entente game, I may help the Germans out by sending the French armies into Alsace rather than towards Belgium

By contrast, I'm 50/50 at best when it comes to taking Paris in 1914 when I play as the Central Powers. Germany's current PP feels about right...though the AI lets too many convoys get through. I wouldn't want to see Germany beefed up any more in the name of artificial "balance", but as it stands the Entente definitely has the advantage in my book. (Maybe the blockade should be in effect by default at the start of the game, with Atlantic shipping only resuming if the naval balance shifts in Germany's favor.)