Cold War turns Hot in Europe: A new Campaign by Lt Hilsdorf

[Lt Hilsdorf]

For my Cold War battlescenario mod, I've decided to begin work on a mini campaign based around the idea of the Cold War becoming a full blown war between NATO and the Warsaw pact sometime in the late 1940's or early 1950's.

This will take place on all of Europe, maybe including North Africa and most likely the Mid East will be in too. I suppose all of the US will be in too, incase a Soviet player wants to invade after taking Europe. I plan to start work on making the map soon so I'll have some screens to post, and hopefuly I'll be able to get permission to use some of the Cold War Mod's 1950 OOBs they have gathered.

If anyone has comments or suggestions please feel free to post. There shouldn't be a need to change a whole heck of alot ingame (leaders are all set to die in 1960 and the tech tree will cover the 1950's, though there won't be any research allowed I reckon). Anyway I'm looking forward to see if I can get anyone to join me in this.

 

[unmerged(29005)]

You know... I don't want to throw cold water on you... but you seem to be doing the better part of a dozen projects right now... are you not over reaching yourself?

 

[Sarmatia1871]

You know... I don't want to throw cold water on you... but you seem to be doing the better part of a dozen projects right now... are you not over reaching yourself?

Don't listen to him - it's an excellent idea, and I've been waiting for a half-decent World War III in Europe game for years!

However, it might be an idea to wait until the Doomsday release before getting too far into this project, as they may be covering a lot of similar ground...

 

[Lt Hilsdorf]

You know... I don't want to throw cold water on you... but you seem to be doing the better part of a dozen projects right now... are you not over reaching yourself?

A dozen projects for the same mod? Yup pretty much. All the stuff I've been doing of late is for my Cold War battlescenario mod and, this might sound weird, but I've found I tend to get more done when I have a bunch of stuff to do. That way you don't get bored working on the same scenario all by yourself, as I have found in the past.

Sarmatia1871: Ya with Doomsday coming out it might put a damper on this, but from expierence, but there is nothing that Paradox releases that can not be further improved with mods.....

 

[Sir Kenny]

Good luck Hilsdorf!

 

[Lt Hilsdorf]

Amazingly, the map only took about 3 hours work last night and it was mostly done. I think I'll add in the Mideast and some of North Africa so some colonies have a chance to try and break free, but other than that its done. One main thing to note is that Austria probably shouldn't exist yet, but I think it's much easier to have them free from the start than have it partioned. Unless anyone disagrees I'll leave it as is.

 

[unmerged(51521)]

Having a divided Austria could add a useful position for flanking the west, so I'd have to say please add it in and then maybe have an event that liberates it later in the game.
Oh, and i'd agree with adding the Mid East.
Good work so far

 

[mib]

The Rhodos Island seems blacked out?

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Amazingly, the map only took about 3 hours work last night and it was mostly done. I think I'll add in the Mideast and some of North Africa so some colonies have a chance to try and break free, but other than that its done. One main thing to note is that Austria probably shouldn't exist yet, but I think it's much easier to have them free from the start than have it partioned. Unless anyone disagrees I'll leave it as is.

Looks good - and you definitely need the Middle East and North Africa, so the Soviets can attempt a giant flanking maneuver around the Southern Mediterranean!

Also, given the possible late-40s start date. are you figuring the Greek civil war into this? And what are the exact statuses of Yugoslavia and Spain in the alliance systems going to be?

And how is the USA going to modelled? A lot of off map IC and unit-creating events?

 

[Lt Hilsdorf]

mib - "The Rhodos Island seems blacked out?"

Hmm, yup that's true. Not sure why, I guess I just missed it when I put in the province ID's. I'll add it back in.

Sarmatia1871:

Well I'm not sure what I'll do about the Greek Civil War for the moment, but it will have to be modled eventually.

All of the mainland USA is included ingame so is a Soviet player wants to take over the US they have a chance to try it. Also, there won't be any unit creation events, because tech, production and diplomacy are all opened. This is more of a mini Grand Campaign than a battlescenario.

As for an update:
Many of the OOB's are done, mainly because there aren't that many to include since only Europe, the Mid East and North Africa are included. Maybe if I jsut finish them up I can have a very early version released in an update for the Cold War battlescenario mod.

 

[Lt Hilsdorf]

Well I think this is going to be the final version of the map for some time (I want to add in Vietnam eventually, but not yet....). If you look, you can also see most of the nations have an OOB now and I am getting closer to actually finishing those up. Then I will add in some needed events (to start the actual war, but the main focus will be on the Mideast..). So anyway here is the new map:

 

[SirDaniel]

LOL Rodes (Rhodos Island) is still missing!