Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

Version 6.04 uploaded.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/su88gsvgxe0xfjn/FW%206.04.zip?dl=0

No fixes necessary, just some balancing tweaks in favor of Axis (Allied AI stomped me last game).

Also is there anyone who would like to make new NATO Counters?

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ORIGINAL: SIPRES

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

Version 6.04 uploaded.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/su88gsvgxe0xfjn/FW%206.04.zip?dl=0

No fixes necessary, just some balancing tweaks in favor of Axis (Allied AI stomped me last game).

Also is there anyone who would like to make new NATO Counters?

Hello crispy131313

I would be Glad to make some Nato counters for your MOD.
Just Pure NATO is enough? or some other counters design?

Christophe

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

Thanks, standard NATO would be very welcomed at this time! I do use the same Major Slots as Vanilla as you described, there should be no surprises other then following the Localization file.

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

I really like them! Great choices for the different aspect ratios of Land, Air & Sea. Also the slot allocation looks correct to me.

The only one I think could use a different design is the HQ, which is almost blank.

The problem with HQ's is that the "NATOflagsprite" file will cover a good part of HQ counter with a Flag image, so not much space remaining (or a really small HQ nato on upper right).
If you have any design suggest I am open no problem.


As for NATO Zoom, you can just change the size. That is what I did for the 3-D Counters. I had to use Paint.Net to change the size exactly to scale, I couldn't figure out how to it on GIMP which I used to change the counter design.

I was thinking this way, but then the units size (Div, Corps, Army) gets difficult to read after scale down.
I will find a way...

Thanks Again!

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ORIGINAL: tog34

There's a few events that you could go with tbh, I'll just list big contributions Canada made in\ world war 2.

-Canada had the third biggest navy in ww2, 95,000 men and women served in the Royal Canadian navy, which was out fitted with 434 commissioned vessels. Canada played a massive royal in the battle of the Atlantic. If it wasn't for Canada bring in supplies to the UK after the fall of France it never would have been able to hold on and fight off Germany.

-The Royal Canadian air force, It reached it's peek in 1944 and had a peak strength of 215,200 of all ranks. The Canadians had 35 oversea squadrons and 43 at home, Canada had something called British Commonwealth training plan in which allied pilots would be trained from and sent overseas to fight.

-Industrial contribution, this part I feel was huge. After the fall of France the UK lost 75,000 of it's 80,000 military vehicles it had during the early bits of the war, so Canada was charged with replacing these vehicles. Canadian industry produced more than 800,000 military transport vehicles, 50,000 tanks, 40,000 field, naval and anti-aircraft guns, plus 1,700,000 small arms. 168,000 vehicles were kept for the Canadian royal army which would make it the most mechanized army in the field of ww2.

I feel that maybe there should be events for the uk where they can get more destroyers from Canada and some goes with the air force, the British Commonwealth training plan was huge because it tried most of the pilots for the war effort. So maybe some events for that so that you can boost your air force maybe. Lastly I would say maybe an event or two about gearing up Canada's war industry, we heavily supplied the allies with aluminum, which I think Canada produced around 10% of all the allied aluminum production. A side note I would like to add is that after the fall of France and the UK was preparing the defence of the island, the Canadians were the most mobile force in the army at that time, so they would have been used as reserves. I feel that Canada should be able to build mechanized units if they can't already.

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

I forgot the flag overlays the HQ. In that case they are all great.

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ORIGINAL: SIPRES

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

I forgot the flag overlays the HQ. In that case they are all great.

Here is dropbox link with Natos sprites: Major01 to 08 (I did Major_06 in case you want to add in any later update of your MOD) + Minors
The Zoom version is still on going (test on Major_06 slot)


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m6vquxh0d5ijjdr/AACiinuuCq2geXHiWjyEk--Aa?dl=0

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ORIGINAL: tog34

Sadly I can't, it says I need to wait 7 days before I can post links. I'll try and message you the links privately and to anyone else who is interested.

Oh wow, I was dead wrong with the 10% aluminum thing, Canada actually supplied the allies with 40% of all their aluminum! and Nickel was even higher at 95%. That's crazy! Also another fun fact is that the Americans got their uranium from us, which made the atom bombs.

I also want to add that maybe another event you could do is that when Canada declared war on Germany, Canadian soldiers started to arrive in England after two weeks of the declaration of war.

Canada also fought on many fronts throughout the entire war, We fought in Dieppe which was basically an entirely Canadian operation, Operation Husky, Invasion of Italy, D-day and so on. We also had airplanes and ships in the Mediterranean during the north African campaign.

And Canada did all of this while having a very poor army, navy and air force at the start of the war, plus we only had 11 million people.

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

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ORIGINAL: SIPRES

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

I forgot the flag overlays the HQ. In that case they are all great.

Here is dropbox link with Natos sprites: Major01 to 08 (I did Major_06 in case you want to add in any later update of your MOD) + Minors
The Zoom version is still on going (test on Major_06 slot)


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m6vquxh0d5ijjdr/AACiinuuCq2geXHiWjyEk--Aa?dl=0

These sprites are great, thank you very much!

On the Zoomed out NATO icons (Major 6 template) some of the Symbols are outside of the box which could be very tough to see on the Map though. Otherwise, the finished Set is exactly what I was looking for, you have done me a great service.

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ORIGINAL: tog34

Yeah no problem, hopefully it won't make Canada too OP

Also I didn't know you were a Canadian, I was just speaking for all of us. That's pretty awesome though, cheers!

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ORIGINAL: tog34

I'd be very interested in hearing about seeing the Canadian events when you make them, just so you know. I wonder how you would do the conscription crisis event though.

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ORIGINAL: SIPRES

dropbox link with Natos sprites is Updated (zoom version included)
You can now include in the MOD at your wish.

Rgds

Christophe

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

I have not made any changes to any image file, so the mod should work I think.

What needs to be addressed really is how unfriendly the developers are to playing edited campaigns. SC2 did not require a seperate campaign directory.

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ORIGINAL: Hubert Cater

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

I have not made any changes to any image file, so the mod should work I think.

What needs to be addressed really is how unfriendly the developers are to playing edited campaigns. SC2 did not require a seperate campaign directory.

Hi Crispy,

Finally had a chance to take a quick look and this is a great mod, nice work

For the separate campaigns folder this is a long overdue change and pretty much a requirement now for Windows programs since the Vista release in that all user files should be saved in the system 'User\Documents' folder and not within the installation folder which by default is the 'Program Files' folder.

Depending on your User Access Control (UAC) settings, it may have worked for you in the past, but for a lot of players this was a bit of a headache as either they couldn't write to the Program Files folder or their files would go missing (subsequently hidden in a virtualization folder) and so on. Not to mention the headache this also created for us on the tech support side.

Essentially most if not all modern Windows applications save user data, whether it is from a game, or from another application such as a word processor, to the 'User\Documents' folder now and for this game, this now includes all saved games, initialization files as well as custom campaigns.

Here are a couple of links on why this is now a necessity under Windows:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/7b3ada32-181d-4c55-9259-ee44f5f83b82/cant-write-to-program-files-folder?forum=w8itprogeneral

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150902-00/?p=91681

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ORIGINAL: PHalen

I’ve just tried out two FWII_v7.2 games as Allies (on “Intermediate” level) and my first impressions are that I really like the feeling of this mod! The many new events add lots of aspects and flavor to the game. The unit sizes & types feel just right. And SIPRES’s NATO counters are just awesome on Welk’s board game map! (I have further tweaked some nation colors & map details according my preferences.)

But what’s going on with Greece & Bulgaria?
In both my Allied games, Germany suddenly permitted territorial concessions to Greece in September 1940, which immediately caused Greece to form an alliance with Germany and join the Axis. This suddenly happened although Greece only had a 5-7% leaning towards the Axis and (in my second game) I had 3 diplomatic chips invested in Greece. In both games, I had invested in the early event to have Greece cut its trade relations with Germany. On the same turn, Bulgaria signed a defensive pact with USSR. In my second game, this all happened just before the fall of France and well after Italy had joined the Axis.

Any hints or comments on what’s going on here?

I got so intrigued by the sudden & unexpected development that I saved my Allied campaign and plan to continue it. (Although with a completely revised game plan...) But I must first try out an Axis campaign to see what happens.