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Ian R -> RE: Recon (1/5/2017 4:02:13 PM)


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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

BTS scenario. 9th Australian inf division has toe #2706 which is a CMF Inf Bn TOE. Makes this unit very fragile, loses will not be made up. Should probably be a TOE # 2693 or 2694.



9 Div should arrive as UK 1942 TOE motorised infantry division, and transition to an AIF jungle TOE light division, with excess devices going to the pool, but all vehicles were left behind in Egypt. Also, the Marmon Harringtons in the AIF/AMF TOEs are a furphy. The divisional cavalry regts were essentially mech infantry scouts, with a squadron of tanks. At times in the MTO they used Vickers MkVI, captured Italian tanks, or captured Vichy French R-35/H-35. On return to the PTO they had no tanks issued, and ultimately re-roled as commando btn HQs.







John 3rd -> RE: Recon (1/5/2017 4:48:05 PM)

Thanks Ian. Appreciate it.




John 3rd -> RE: Recon (1/24/2017 10:52:59 PM)

Michael has found a major glitch in BTS-L with the economy. Thankfully it doesn't appear to be in TM, RA, and BTS.

Michael: Can you Post what you found?




ny59giants -> RE: Recon (1/25/2017 12:53:44 PM)

Gremlins got loose in the editor of BTS Lite long ago (before 1EyedJack vs me now in Nov 42) where "HI Fuel In" went from 2 to 4 and "LI In" went from 15 to 8. Then, I started my game as Japan vs Gen Patton and we had gotten to late July 42. I'm very much into micro-management (Tracker fan boy [:)]), but I saw my fuel go from 4 million (M) at start to 1.5M and Oil from 3M to 1M while Res went from 7M to 41M and enough in Japan for 13,462 days.

So any Japanese players using BTS Lite (scen 60), please hit the "J" button to pull up your economy. Select just "HI" and if any factory has 4x the fuel under "Requirements" for your any HI factory then the gremlins hit you to. [:(] Please PM if you want the newest version, with fixes and tweaks.

Needless to say, both my games are being restarted with newest version. This time I cannot use my rust of not playing Japan often vs Gen Patton nor can 1EyedJack use his lack of familiarity with this mod as excuse for losing two CV vs CV battles in early 42 as Japan.[;)]




John 3rd -> RE: Recon (1/25/2017 10:35:35 PM)

Thanks Michael.

We have done a ton of changes and updates over the last week or two and I think we are about ready for a general release. When that happens there will be a Post announcing the release as well as all the details Posted here.




Big B -> RE: Recon (1/26/2017 1:05:03 AM)


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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Thanks Michael.

We have done a ton of changes and updates over the last week or two and I think we are about ready for a general release. When that happens there will be a Post announcing the release as well as all the details Posted here.




Best of luck guys!




cardas -> RE: Recon (1/26/2017 10:05:52 AM)

Hope no new gremlins creeps in!

I did notice some errors with the Soviet ships as well. This is probably not something that matters as you usually don't see much of them in action. These errors are present in the stock scenarios as well.
In fact there's so much odd going on there that I don't know where to start. I'll be lazy and simply give you the navypedia links instead of pointing out exactly every thing. Of course navypedia isn't an infallible source but it's usually quite accurate. Still as always take things with a grain of salt.

Kalinin and Kaganovich are of the Kirov-class ingame, in reality they were a slightly larger type: http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_cr_maxim_gorkiy.htm - change the Kirov-class to this.

The Leningrad-class has some incorrect weapons, among others 2x2 torpedoes rather than 2x4. http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_dd_minsk.htm - check this to correct it (Tblisi is the ship in the game)

Most of the Gnevnyi-class ships in the Pacific seems to have had 3x1 or 4x1 37mm guns, not 1x2 as currently. http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_dd_gnevnyy.htm

The two ships represented by the Novik-class probably didn't have DP guns or 533 mm torpedoes. See http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_dd_pobeditel.htm (Stalin) and http://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_dd_kapitan_izylmetyev.htm (Voykov), check the outfits at 1946.

http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_71-57_m1932.htm
The 180mm/57 gun seems to lower penetration than I'd expect. Something along the lines of 275 might be more correct. That might sound like a lot for something that's not a 203 mm gun, but it's a rather high velocity gun. The Japanese 15.5 cm gun already has 231.

http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_51-50_m1936.htm
The 130mm/55 should be 130mm/50. The penetration here is also low, it should probably be around 90+, upper bound probably in the vicinity of 110.

http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_4-60_m1911.php
102mm/60 P1911 - used on the Novik-class. Guess at stats:
Type: Naval Gun, Range: 17, Accuracy: 40, Penetration: 48, Effect: 38, Ceiling: 0, Anti-Armor: 24, Anti-Soft: 22

http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_39-56_m1940.php
I'm somewhat unclear as to whether the 100mm/56 P1940 was used on any of the ships in the Pacific. It might very well have been used in the coastal forts though (it's currently in the Vladivostok fort as an example). So the device should probably stick around but an additional gun added.

http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_39-51_m1931.htm
100mm/56 B-24 - replaces all instances of the 100mm/56 P1940 gun on ships.
Same stats as the P1940 except it's a single purpose gun, not a DP gun.

http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNRussian_85mm-52_90k.htm
85mm/52 90K - used on the two cruisers. Guess at stats:
Type: DP Gun, Range: 17, Accuracy: 36, Penetration: 36, Effect: 20, Ceiling: 33450, Anti-Armor: 18, Anti-Soft: 17
(If using witploadAE extra stats - AA Penetration: 18, AA Effect: 24, AA Accuracy: 50)


As an curiosity I don't really get why three of the Soviet classes are given a 18 knot cruise speed, rather than the normal 15.




John 3rd -> RE: Recon (1/29/2017 2:14:20 PM)

When I have been loading Scen 60: Between the Storms--Lite, I am noticing missing ship art work. This is my 'working' Scenario number for the update that is to come. Am going to go through and see just what is missing so I can fix and then update the folders on the RA Website.

Additionally want to draw up an EXACT set of warship additions to all the Allied Fleets as well as Japan so people can see that as well. Think it might go a long way towards addressing cocerns about this being a JFB-ONLY Mod!




btd64 -> RE: Recon (1/29/2017 3:32:14 PM)

John, it depends on how you play it....GP




Cavalry Corp -> RE: Recon (1/29/2017 8:36:22 PM)

Please list the changes for RA so we can see how its developing - and what if any will help games in progress. I am in March 43 in RA 7.9 AS ALLIES - yes its good. Have the issues around ship withdrawl and PP for certain units that should not have them and also allied destroyed units not being able to be bought back but I guess I can live with this. Did the Victory points change much from the original game.

If you want to see the game please PM and I will send you the file.

Also what were the recommended house rules for RA?

Thanks for all the good work.




John 3rd -> RE: Recon (1/29/2017 11:05:30 PM)

Thanks Cavalry and GP.

The work done here is for Between the Storms which folds in the Treaty Mod work and then RA. I shall separate them once this version is completed. The goal was to get ALL the changes on one database so I can then use just that database to create TM and RA from it. Does that make sense?

Cavalry--I would like to see your work but in a little while.




aga2008 -> RE: RA 7.9 (1/31/2017 5:20:19 AM)

Playing RA 7.9 and it's April 1943.
I just got the 752 KuS-1 (27 Zeroes) but it needs to be withdrawn immediately (since Dec 1942 it says).

Keeping it costs me 27 PP per day ...


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John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/1/2017 3:08:14 PM)

THERE is a problem. Will correct in new version. Thanks for letting me know!




John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/3/2017 11:56:07 PM)

Between the Storms: Lite
The Additions to the Allied Fleet


United States Navy
CV Wasp (built as Yorktown-Class)
CVL King's Mountain
CVE Ely
CLV Charlotte and Jacksonville
BB Colorado-Class (Colorado, Maryland, and West Virginia start on West Coast upgrading as planned but never done IRL)
BC Ranger and Constellation (Lexington-Class)
CA Burlington and Rome
CL Anchorage and Dallas
DD 8 additional (4 more of two different classes)
SS 6 additional (1 Argonaut, 2 Narwhal, and 3 Narwhal with a Float Plane)

French (based at Tahiti)
CL Jean de Vienne
DD 2
SS 2

Royal Australian Navy
CAV Melbourne
DD 4
SS 2

Royal New Zealand Navy
CAV Wellington
DD 2

Dutch Navy
CL Eendracht

Total additional NEW Allied ships added (not including those upgrading--Colorado Class--or variations--Wasp:
1 CVL
1 CVE
2 CAV
2 CLV
2 BC
2 CA
4 CL
14 DD
10 SS






BillBrown -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/5/2017 1:30:09 AM)

What is the status of RA and BTS? Will you be doing upgrades to these scenarios?




John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/5/2017 3:59:29 AM)

Between the Storms is close to release. RA will take a while. I have standardized the databases of TM, RA, and BTS to be located to just ONE set of files. It is only a matter a changing which ships or air groups come in when and the POOF I have a new variant...

If I had half a day we would be OK. BTS goes first and then RA. They will be far superior to the current versions.




BillBrown -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/6/2017 6:23:44 PM)

Any timetable on the upgrades? Xargun and I are going to start a new PBEM game of either RA or BTS.




BillBrown -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/6/2017 8:19:06 PM)

It looks like we will be using BTS.




John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/6/2017 8:46:53 PM)

Good. This will push me along to get it done. I will Post updates here over the next several days as I work on what remains.




Xargun -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 2:31:48 PM)

I have the latest version of BTS installed and while looking at planes in Tracker I am noticing missing art work for them. Is there another art file I need besides that which comes in the BTS zip ?




btd64 -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 2:34:09 PM)

Xargun, I would list the aircraft art that is missing so John can fix it....GP




BillBrown -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 2:54:53 PM)

There is a page of art work that is needed and you can find it here. https://sites.google.com/site/reluctantadmiral/home/ra-4-0-the-art




btd64 -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 2:59:10 PM)


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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

There is a page of art work that is needed and you can find it here. https://sites.google.com/site/reluctantadmiral/home/ra-4-0-the-art


Not sure that art is up to date. It's 3 years old....GP




BillBrown -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 3:50:47 PM)

Yes, that is the artwork that is available. John may do some updating on the art files also.




John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 4:26:18 PM)


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ORIGINAL: General Patton


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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

There is a page of art work that is needed and you can find it here. https://sites.google.com/site/reluctantadmiral/home/ra-4-0-the-art


Not sure that art is up to date. It's 3 years old....GP


The aircraft art hasn't changed so it should be good to use. Getting fresh planes sides and such into the artwork has never been successful for me and so I have farmed that work out over the years.




John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/7/2017 4:26:59 PM)


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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

Yes, that is the artwork that is available. John may do some updating on the art files also.


Correct Bill. Am trying to make sure ALL the updated ship work is correct and in its proper place.




ny59giants -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/8/2017 1:06:11 PM)

Go thru the IJN leaders and find some Lt that can be promoted to Cmd that have good land skills so there are more options for the Assault Div. Not many choices there. [;)]




BillBrown -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/8/2017 1:29:36 PM)

A question John. You have the IJN CV air groups setup to be able to resize from day 1. But the USN CV air groups are not and must follow
the historical resize path. Don't you think it would be fair if the USN were able to resize their air units from day 1 also?




btd64 -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/8/2017 2:00:28 PM)


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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

A question John. You have the IJN CV air groups setup to be able to resize from day 1. But the USN CV air groups are not and must follow
the historical resize path. Don't you think it would be fair if the USN were able to resize their air units from day 1 also?


A big PLUS ONE....GP




John 3rd -> RE: RA 7.9 (2/8/2017 3:19:11 PM)

I have not changed anything from what is normal here.

The Japanese start with slightly changed air groups due to the Recon Kates. The Allies cannot due to being at sea. Shouldn't Saratoga have the chance on Day One? Might be off here so if so, please expand your comments. Isn't resizing the same for the Allies as the Japanese?





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