Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Denniss

To answer some questions/observations:
If you see devices or upgrades changed to a number without associated name it indicates a new device/element.
Symbol changed to 0 = has it's own symbol now

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ORIGINAL: morvael

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ORIGINAL: hfarrish


Love the changes related to forts and the limits on fort construction - hopefully the death of WW1. Increased reserve activations (particularly on offense) should also be huge.

On National Morale - what are the existing parameters for the Soviets? Also...Germans really were stuck at 70 for the entire game in the current version? That decline to 55 will be huge.

Especially with fort game setting below 100... Things start to get interesting. But where you build up to level 3 (LG?), such position will be protected from panzers due to dense terrain bonus, and infantry will have to do the job.

Yes, Germany should be severely weakened at the end of the war. The game was balanced with the bug existing, thus the balance will now change considerably (I'd say 41 is slightly pro-Axis now, 42 much more pro-Axis, but then things go downhill for them fast). That's why this must be a public beta for a long time - we need more people playing to discover new balance, it was impossible to do it in private development group only. Or you would see the patch in 2016. Sudden death scenarios may be especially dangerous now, so I suggest normal GC is safer choice.

New Soviet morale is listed somewhere in the log.

Good thing is - anyone can mod this now to some extent (per-country per-year) in scenario parameters.

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ORIGINAL: MechFO
Further I noted:

a missing super heavy classification for a 240mm,
missing super heavy classification the the German and Axis minor 210mm in general (feature description says 210mm and above)

did the railway guns get their SH classification, I don't see any listed?

the 305mm and 355mm seem to be treated as SP artillery for fuel use but were towed?

quite a few artillery symbol changes don't much sense to me, are these WAD?
f.e.
[111] 122mm Howitzer symbol changed from [74] Infantry Gun to [109] 75mm Field Gun
[112] 150mm Howitzer symbol changed from [108] 150mm Field Gun to [109] 75mm Field Gun
[328] 149mm Howitzer symbol changed from [319] 82mm Mortar to [323] 75mm Mountain Gun
[788] 82mm Mortar symbol changed from [784] 76mm Infantry Gun to [729] 107mm Mortar

Some Axis minor AT guns get an accuracy nerf. Is this to simulate training etc. above and beyond the experience modifier?


What does the "effect" do? Destruction chance upon a hit? The what are the Ground and Air ratings for?

Last but not least, now that Artillery build % can be decreased, and the Germans should suffer from it, how about restoring the 42-43 Division to their paper Artillery TOE, so that the player benefits from avoiding a Winter offensive and Stalingrad redux.

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ORIGINAL: Denniss

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ORIGINAL: MechFO

The super-heavy cut is at ~250+mm,

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ORIGINAL: hfarrish

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ORIGINAL: smokindave34

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ORIGINAL: morvael

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ORIGINAL: hfarrish


Love the changes related to forts and the limits on fort construction - hopefully the death of WW1. Increased reserve activations (particularly on offense) should also be huge.

On National Morale - what are the existing parameters for the Soviets? Also...Germans really were stuck at 70 for the entire game in the current version? That decline to 55 will be huge.

Especially with fort game setting below 100... Things start to get interesting. But where you build up to level 3 (LG?), such position will be protected from panzers due to dense terrain bonus, and infantry will have to do the job.

Yes, Germany should be severely weakened at the end of the war. The game was balanced with the bug existing, thus the balance will now change considerably (I'd say 41 is slightly pro-Axis now, 42 much more pro-Axis, but then things go downhill for them fast). That's why this must be a public beta for a long time - we need more people playing to discover new balance, it was impossible to do it in private development group only. Or you would see the patch in 2016. Sudden death scenarios may be especially dangerous now, so I suggest normal GC is safer choice.

New Soviet morale is listed somewhere in the log.

Good thing is - anyone can mod this now to some extent (per-country per-year) in scenario parameters.

I have two games in progress as axis in 1943, if I or my opponents update to 1.08 will I see the negative effects on the axis (things going down hill fast). I'm afraid if I update I'll see the negative consequences without having seen the advantages the axis receives in '41/42.

As fun as that might be for me, I think I read that the two versions don't work together - not sure what this implies for existing games.

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Doesn't make sense to me since already the 240mm sized ones were considered specialized very heavy artillery. You also see it with gun and shell weights. Either way please change the final patch notes accordingly, otherwise this is bound to cause confusion.

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.8 is probably as close to perfect as we will get - which means players skills determine out come not errors bugs and exploits

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ORIGINAL: Denniss

SH vs H depends on more than just caliber, I wouldn't call a 240mm howitzer with short range a SH gun, a 203mm gun with long barrel (like on heavy cruisers) could be considered SH due to combination of rather big calibler + long range. But anyway the cut-off area is rather fluid and we had to made a separation somewhere so we don't mix the huge guns with rather smallish guns.

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ORIGINAL: GamesaurusRex

Thanks again to Morvael and company for all the excellent work ! I appreciate and value the fact that 2x3 and Matrix have gone the extra mile to see these improvements made, rather than washing their hands of a "finished product" as some other less scrupulous publishers/developers have done on occasion.

As a consumer, this gives me confidence in purchasing your products and places them on the top of my list of recommendations to others.

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ORIGINAL: janh

Very impressive change list. And some very welcome fixes and new features among them. Only missing a means to suppress ToE changes if pools do not require reducing the elements, or if not desired.

Many thanks to everyone involved in doing these changes, and in testing them! Above and beyond all expectations!

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ORIGINAL: Von Hindenburg

I haven't been following this super closely but would love to know if the BOMB AIRFIELD has been changed so that the German does not get slaughtered trying to bomb airfields after the first turn.