Download CORE 0.70.5

[Tegetthoff]

Here´s the new Version:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/24953247/CORE2_0_7_0_5.exe

Alternate download:

http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/483017/CORE2_0_7_0_5.exe

Checksum:
ZMXM

Changelog:

Hagar:
4 new tech pics
3 new leader and 1 TT pics
86 new event images
Integrated into event files:
USA:
neutrality_act_1937
bf_goodrich
firestone
United_States_Rubber_Co
us_synthetic_rubber
us_rubber_shortage
panay_japan_apology
glenn_l_martin
lockheed
consolidated
western_electric
westinghouse
GER:
buessing-nag
erich_raeder
Rome_Berlin_Axis
schkopau_buna_werke
Vierjahresplan_fuel
Vierjahresplan
rauxel_kloeckner_werke
homberg_rheinpreussen
magdeburg_brabag
ruhland_brabag
holten_ruhrbenzin
huels_chemische_werke
scholven_hydrierwerke
zeitz_brabag
gelsenkirchen_nordstern
welheim_bottrop_ruhroel
wesseling_union_rheinische_kraftstoff
politz_hydrierwerk
luetzkendorf_wintershall
wanne-eickel_krupp_treibstoffwerk
deschowitz_schaffgotsch_werke
dortmund_chemischen_werke_bergkamen
leunawerke_basf
blechhammer_oberschlesische_hydrierwerke
rattwitz_buna_ig_farben
ludwigshafen_oppau_ig_farben
auschwitz_buna_ig_farben
auschwitz_buna_ig_farben_construction
* a few modified Bad Godesberg pics have been inserted - introduction incomplete
arado
ENG:
nuffield
turing
leyland_motors
birmingham_railway_carriage_wagon
resignation_anthony_eden
churchill_1940_prime_minister
dudley_clarke
alan_brooke
bernard_montgomery
sholto_douglas
gloster_aircraft
handley_page
SOV:
utzm
semyon_timoshenko
aleksandr_vasilevsky
pavel_rotmistrov
alexander_novikov
kirov_murder
spanish_sb-2
mikhail_gromadin
leonid_govorov
okb-115
okb-155
ilyushin_okb
2nd-5year_plan
3rd-5year_plan
mikhail_tukhachevsky
vasily_blyukher
Iona_yakir
august_kork
vitaly_primakov
ieronim_uborevich
vitovt_putna
ITA:
giuseppe_fioravanzo
giovanni_messe
reggiane
savoia_marchetti
piaggio
caproni_campini
reggiane_Re2007
fiat_g80

Fixed the ciano_ribbentrop picture references
Replaced all instances of "Bleckhammer" by correct "Blechhammer"
War with Poland triggers GER full mobilisation (Molotov Ribbentrop pact used to do this, which we now removed as a trigger for FM)

Denniss´s pack of March 22, 15:
Took core_romania.txt
Took CORE2_naval_construction_events
Left out the ITA stuff as this was worked in parallel by Zsar (and I put in the event pic references above)

Zsar´s post of March 23, 15:
Modified ai trade Events

Armd´s Disney-free map of March 25
Deniss´s USA/CHI LL pack of MArch 26
(combined with the modified USA event pic references)

Zsar´s April 19 pack:
added eth_postwar.ai, ita_IronWill.ai and ita_Tembien.ai with corresponding empty dummy files
re-added missing trade value switch AI files
bases.inc
- added air_base to Mogadishu to allow historical italian air cover over Ogaden
core_Ethiopia.txt
- added events 330012 and 330013 to provide non-IC economic strength to ETH (subject to change)
- added event 330015 to provide the Azebu Galla attack in March 1936
- added event 330016 to provide the Welega Oromo attack in October 1936
- added event 330018 for the departure of Haile Selassie I into exile
- added event 330019 to setup ETH as a potential ITA protectorate
- added events 330026 and 330027 to respond to the capture and kill decisions in event 460280
- added events 330030 and 330031 to facilitate higher losses for ETH
- added event 330033 as part of a hack to prevent AI ITA units getting stuck in the deployment pool in case of ITA event 460283
- added event 330034 to activate protectorate AI
- changed event 330020 to set Amha Selassie as Head of State instead of Haile Selassie I
core_Italy.txt
- added event 460280 to decide the fate of Haile Selassie I (let go, capture, kill)
- added event 460281 to decide the fate of conquered Ethiopia (annexation, merged AOI protectorate, solo ETH protectorate)
- added events 460282-460284 to execute the decision made in 460281
- disabled event 460012 as it would disrupt the new event chain (will be rewritten and re-enabled for next version)
- modified event 460220 to provide the correct MP difference for the new setup
- modified event 460221 to put newly added leader Gallina in charge of the Corpo d'Armata libico and made trigger a bit more solid
- modified events 460036 and 460200 to work with the new event chain (will be properly rewritten for next version)
- renumbered Quarta Sponda events to 460290 - 460293 from 460218 - 460221
core_Vatican.txt
- added event 1200126 to ensure a human ETH is always turned into an AOI protectorate by ITA
cored_ai_ita.txt
- added event 26035 to put ITA on offensive against ETH in late january
- added event 26036 to finish off ETH most vigorously if the war is not over by late april
- removed erroneous OR-bracket in event 26010 that made it fire continuously
cored_ai_trade.txt
- fixed logic error in buy event triggers that would lead to events becoming eligible in inappropriate situations
cored_italy.txt
- changed event 2900 to trigger renumbered event 460291 (former 460219)
event_text.csv
- added ED330018 due to overlength
- changed ED460218 to ED460290 to match new event ID
- also moved to maintain proper order of IDs
eth_1936.ai
- added air_base_provs and naval_base_provs for case of ITA AOI protectorate
- removed Gonder from air_base_provs
- reduced max_naval_base to 1 from 5
- added missing entries [strategic|installation]strike[desirability|tolerance] to air_marshall block
- added missing extra_convoys_[peace|war] entries to military block
- added Infra_provs entries for ESE optimisation
- changed AA_batteries to no from atwar
- changed air_base and ic_at_war to no from yes
- changed construction/max_factor to 0.0 from 0.3 to prevent bug when AI tries to build something it cannot
- changed upgrading to 1.0 from 0.2
- shifted 5 points to bergsjaeger from militia to ensure that historical mountain troops can be maintained
ETH_36.inc
- added 1054 (Ogaden) to controlledprovinces
- added historical leader 3315 (Imru Haile Selassie) to Grazmach Sefari
- added historical leader 3321 (Mulugeta Yeggazu) to Mahel Sefari
- added historical leader 3329 (Kassa Haile Darge) to Qegnazmach Sefari
- added historical leader 3310 (Haile Selassie) to Addis Chitet
- added historical leader 3336 (Nasibu Zeamanuel) to Hararghe Sefari
- added Denakil Sefari corps with Denakil Sefari garrison and historical leader 3317 (Kassa Sebhat)
- added Wollo Sefari corps with Lekemt & Wollo Sefari garrison and historical leader 3337 (Amha Selassie)
- added provinces of Eritrea and Somaliland to ownedprovinces as part of a hack to prevent AI ITA units getting stuck in the deployment pool in case of ITA event 460283
- changed brigade of Gojjam Sefari to Infantry from Cavalry to represent their modernised state
- changed brigade of Welela-Ardjo Sefari to Infantry from Cavalry to represent their modernised state
- changed name of Beghemder Sefari to Begemder Sefari
- changed name of Lasta Chitet to Lasta Sefari
- changed name of Mui & Sela Chitet to Mui & Sela Sefari
- changed name of Om Hajer Chitet to Om Hajer Sefari
- changed name of Sodo & Welega Chitet to Sodo & Welega Sefari
- changed name of Welela-Ardjo Sefari to Welega-Ardjo Sefari
- changed name of Yejju Chitet to Yejju Sefari
- changed strength of Illubabor Sefari to 89 from 90 to match historical troop count
- changed strength of Gojjam Sefari to 94 from 90 to match historical troop count
- changed strength of Wolqayt & Semien Sefari to 61 from 90 to match historical troop count
- changed Addis Chitet to Kebur Zabangna, medium-strength militia brigaded with Infantry
- changed Gemu Gofa & Arusi Chitet to Arusi, Gemu Gofa & Kula Sefari, unbrigaded militia
- merged Hararghe Chitet into Hararghe Sefari
- changed Ogaden Chitet to Ogaden Sefari, militia brigaded with Cavalry
- changed Wag Chitet to Wag Sefari, low-strength milita brigaded with Infantry
- also moved from Chitet corps to Sefari corps
- moved Mahel (Center) units to Desê from Âdwa, as Âdwa had been taken by Italy before 1936
- moved Qegnazmach (Army of the Right) units to Denakil from Desê
- moved Ogaden Sefari to Ogaden from Ginir, where it had been assembled from several smaller units since outbreak of the war
- removed 1048 (Âdwa) from controlledprovinces as de Bono had taken the important local centres Adwa (town) and Aksum already in October and the regional capital Makale in November 1935
- split Beghemder Sefari into several units to reach historical strength of 53000 men
ethiopia.csv
- added Amha Selassie as 3337 (governor of Wollo in 1930, governor of Begemder & Tigray in 1941, disabled by stroke in 1973)
- still needs picture, candidate here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amha_Selassie
- added Nasibu Zeamanuel as 3336 (governor of Gurage & Soddo in 1931, governor of Bale, commander of southern front since November 1935, death from mustard gas in October 1936)
- changed leader 3325 to Lt. General since 1930 (correlates with governor title of Begemder Province)
- changed start date of Haile Selassie Gugsa to 1937 from 1930, as he defected to Italy in October 1935 and should be unavailable during the war
- renamed leader 3315 to Imru Haile Selassie from Imru
- renamed leader 3317 to Kassa Sebhat from Kassa
- renamed leader 3321 to Mulugeta Yeggazu from Mulugueta
- renamed leader 3325 to Wondosson Kassa from Wondossen Kassa
- replaced leader 3329 as a duplicate of 3325 (including same picture) with the father Kassa Haile Darge
ita_1936.ai
- changed reinforcement to 0.15 from 0.1 to prevent abessinian war stalling from attrition; temporary bandaid
- reduced front/recklessness to 0 from 3
- set min_garrison_prop to 0.76 to prevent abandonment of border provinces
- edited garrison AI to only place units on hostile borders
- set max_garrison_prop to 1.0 as AI will try to satisfy front ratios first anyway
- shifted one percent from FTR to INT as it may lead to undefined behaviour once the AI decides to build one before it can
ITA_36.inc
- added 1048 (Âdwa) to controlledprovinces
- added historical leader 6308 (Enrico Boscardi) to 6a Divisione CCNN 'Tevere'
- added historical leader 6118 (Pirzio Biroli) to Corpo dell'Eritrea
- added historical leader 6193 (Mario Ajmone Cat) to Aeronautica dell'Africa Orientale
- added historical leader 6289 (Ezio Babbini) to IV Corpo d'Armata dell'A.O.I.
- added Azebu Galla division locked and dormand garrison, to be activated in event 330015
- added Brigata Eritrea division to Assab, locked third-strength garrison brigaded with police
- added Welega Oromo division locked and dormand militia brigaded with Cavalry, to be activated in event 330016
- added Zona Bassopiano Occidentale division to Asmara, locked third-strength garrison
- changed 1a Divisione coloniale 'Libia' to 6-bn again and changed brigade to Infantry from Cavalry
- changed brigades of 1a & 2a Divisione libica to Cavalry 1939 from Light Artillery 1935
- changed leader of I Corpo d'Armata dell'A.O.I. to 6232 from 6290 (was the wrong Santini)
- changed name of corps and division "Royal Colonial Troop Corps" to "Corpo Indigeni Somali"
- moved Comando Superiore dell'A.O.I. to Âdwa from Massaua, so Badoglio can be present in the first battle of Tembrien
- moved I, II Corpo d'Armata dell'A.O.I. to Âdwa, so they can be present in the first battle of Tembrien, both formations moved into the area (Makale, Âdwa, Aksum) under de Bono
- moved Corpo dell'Eritrea to Âdwa from Assab, so it can be present in the first battle of Tembrien
- moved Royal Colonial Troop Corps to Obbia from Ogaden as that province was not yet taken
- removed 1054 (Ogaden) from controlledprovinces as it was only taken in april
- removed provinces of Eritrea and Somaliland from ownedprovinces as part of a hack to prevent AI ITA units getting stuck in the deployment pool in case of ITA event 460283
- removed cores on Eritrea and Somaliland
italy.csv
- added Sebastiano Gallina as 6042 (Generale di Divisione 1936, Generale di Corpo di Armata 1939, death from air attack 1945)
- renamed 6232 to Santini, R. and 6290 to Santini, V. from Santini, to differentiate between Vittorio and Ruggero Santini
ministers_eth.csv
- added Amha Selassie as 65011, Head of State, Popular Figurehead (Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen Tafari, historical figurehead in 1960 - may as well be earlier)
- still needs picture, candidate here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amha_Selassie
- changed Haile Selassie Gugsa to PA from FA
unitnames.csv
- added ETH entries for Cav, Gar, Mil, Mtn
vp.inc
- added 1 VP to Gambêla, which contains two important economic centers of Ethiopia (Asosa, gold; Gore, Civet cat oil) and was center of continued ethiopian resistance until October 1936
2015-04-20
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[Tegetthoff]

I have concatenated all the material I received from you guys, Hope I missed nothing. Lots of small changes in the files, so please work off this fileset.

ATM I seem to have lost my moderator powers here in the CORE subforum, so I am unable to stick/unstick the threads.

 

[Zsar1]

Not sure when before the weekend I will find time to examine this version.

To everyone who starts a fresh game with this, I would be much oblieged if you could keep an eye out for the length of the war between ETH and ITA.
Ideally it should end anywhere from end of may to before january.

Also, any incident of ETH being annexed directly (without a white peace one day prior) should be reported.
I went to some length to prevent this, but I am not sure whether it is absolutely save now.

@Tegetthoff:
Atrocious formatting... if you could use code tags for changelogs (and ideally put them into spoilers), that would be great.

ATM I seem to have lost my moderator powers here in the CORE subforum, so I am unable to stick/unstick the threads.

As all AoD subforums have been marked as operational, you should probably report that in the Current State of Forum Access thread.

 

[Tegetthoff]

Spoilers. Code Tags etc.:
Was desperately looking for such options, but haven´t found them yet. Can you point me in the right direction?

Moderator: have already contacted support.

ETH: can report one March 19 and one November 16 Italian victory.

 

[Quiller]

can i use the same graphic pack as for 0.70.4?

 

[Tegetthoff]

Yes, you can use the 0.70.4 graphics, just the new Tech pics will be missing.

 

[Zsar1]

Mmh...

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[froglegs]

Thank you all for the updated game.

FYI -- I host a 3 player lan networked game here with 2 buddies and we will generally be playing/testing as USA, England (as Churchill always referred to UK), and Russia at a modified normal difficulty level giving the AI usually +20 IC, resources, and manpower but often increasing to +50. We also play sometimes as Germany or Italy depending.

I also make many changes to the game as I see fit (generally events, AI switches, unit stats etc.)Individually, we test single player those 3 nations. For instance I always change the USA 1st Cavalry division to a regular infantry since that was how it fought in WW2 and Korea until it was changed to an air-cavalry ~1959. I also add various AI cheats for game play balance as necessary.

All three of us have been playing HOI2 together since 2005 and board war games together since 1970. We all are WW2 historians as a hobby -- it comes with the territory.

Also note that if we were not able to play CORE multiplayer, we would not be playing CORE at all. So -- keep it multiplayer friendly if you please.

 

[Blecky]

Playing as USA. ETH was annexed by ITA in Jan 1937 without any preceeding event/white peace.

 

[Zsar1]

@froglegs:
Could you mayhap, if it is not too much bother, outline the problems that MP has with moddir? Or if someone else did that already, provide a link?

Playing as USA. ETH was annexed by ITA in Jan 1937 without any preceeding event/white peace.

Ouch, looks like you got the joker. - Both too late and too quickly.
For the purpose of an ongoing game, it should not break anything serious, so you can savely play on.

Well, I had almost anticipated that. Good that it is already in the plans.

 

[dec152000]

Hi,

Could you explain why this is important/how it is designed to work?

mm

 

[Zsar1]

Well, as Tegetthoff noticed, it is important due to technology that low-tech nations be not released by high-tech nations. Therefore, for the case that ETH remains as a country, not annexing it in the first place is superior to annex-and-release.

The other part is purely temporary: I developed the rework up to a certain point, as changes piled up rather quickly, so the tie-in with the old code works via a flag, which is set in the peace events. - No flag, no progression beyond my reworked part. Which is, as I stated, not important in a whole-game context. Off the top of my head, only the deployment of the AOI forces and the supply depot for east africa will not fire.
- This whole second part will become non-relevant with my next pack.

At large, I had hoped to make the triggers sufficiently solid to eliminate the direct-annexation case, so that the ai_chances in one single event are sufficent to dictate the probability of the three possible fates of ETH; looks like I have to give up on that, will probably adjust the chance a bit to make independent-ETH choices more likely than planned, so that at the whole the probability remains roughly the same.

[...] I had many times pointed out that the exe file needed to be fixed so as to properly reflect carrier battles [...]

Got a link (or just copy your proposal)? Just curious about the complexity.

 

[dec152000]

Hi,

AOI: what you could do is simply give ETH an off map VP. This would completely prevent direct annexation. Then you have an event fired option for ITA. If anyone else is At War with ETH you could remove the off map VP via event. I believe this is all workable in the code. Though you might need to give ETH an actual off map province to make it function.

Way back in the day we discussed making the AOI a puppet Tag of ITA. this never got developed and the stop gap Supply Depot fix is all that we have in place. This really doesn't provide a long term fix. As the AOI area eventually runs out of Supplies and then collapses with very little effort by ENG. So anything you want to code to fix this would be good. But IMO the main thing would be an IND/MLY style puppet for the entire region that ETH would be rolled into. This would be a big improvement in almost every game. Anything beyond that option is going to see a lot less usage. But it would be nice to code more options.

mm

 

[Zsar1]

AOI: what you could do is simply give ETH an off map VP. This would completely prevent direct annexation.

Are you sure? I did put one VP into the "War with Italy" event - and that did not work out, so I removed it for the release version.
ITA annexed ETH anyway.

... Mmh, mayhap I had just removed the VP too soon? Will have to retry.

Way back in the day we discussed making the AOI a puppet Tag of ITA. this never got developed and the stop gap Supply Depot fix is all that we have in place. This really doesn't provide a long term fix. As the AOI area eventually runs out of Supplies and then collapses with very little effort by ENG.

Well, arguably this is almost historical.

And I have to note that this theater is virtually lost as soon as ENG lands two INF divisions adjacent, as they almost always do in my ITA games - those just cannot be defeated by ITA RES, not without exposing the wide inland front to the ~6 divisions that quickly accumulate there (those could probably collapse the theater by themselves but they almost never attack; not sure why).

But IMO the main thing would be an IND/MLY style puppet for the entire region that ETH would be rolled into.

That is already a thing.

Well, it uses the ETH tag and has limited content, but it is setup to provide bases in logical provinces and build Infra to optimise ESE in those. Probably not going to expand on that much in the forseeable future. Debating which parts of Africa would sensibly become part of it if ITA were successful in its overambitious plan.

Only thing that is definitely in the plan right now is a decision to assign the Sudan to EGY or ETH (that is: the AOI puppet, not a lone Ethiopia) or split it along the Nile. I want to use that as a connection point to a puppet EGY (as, given its position, ITA has more motivation to facilitate its annexation by ENG, should it decide to switch sides).[/QUOTE]

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More generally, I intend to rework the rest of the old ETH chain and provide a couple of notable moments, such as Haile Selassie's speech before the League of Nations (not going to happen if he is dead or his son is strung up as a puppet, obviously).
- In that regard, I have a bit of a problem in that currently and with this plan even more, it is all too sensible for ITA not to let him escape in the first place. Mayhap I should just remove the choice and make it random instead, call it the Mussolini factor; but that would stand in the way of shaping (alternate) history after one's wishes and I can see myself hacking the save to ascertain whichever outcome I want to see in my given game... so I kind of do not want to.
(Say hi, Mongol Military Government - those careless japanese never give you any love when the AI plays them.)

 

[dec152000]

Hi,

I'd think that ITA should be able to TRY and capture him. However, from my read on the historical situation it wasn't really in the cards. So letting ITA decide is IMO wrong. At best they should get a percentage chance based off a U_69 event.

WRT ITA collapse the issue is even a single 1930 RES unit will eventually kick over the AOI d2 the supply situation and it happens rather rapidly. ITRW it took around 250K troops and 1.5 years for it to fully play out. We'll get much more like this with a Puppet Tag. Which will in turn prevent those forces from pig pi;;ing into NA much earlier than historically. So this will be nice. the issue I have with simply making it ETH is that the wrong Leaders/Ministers/TT are being used. Clearly some would go over to an Italian colonial administration. But some would not. and ITA shouldn't have to make it it ETH based puppet as the AOI infrastructure is prexisting. Happy scripting!

mm

 

[Hagar]

Added a new image for Amha Selassie for the next version.

 

[Blecky]

In my game as USA GER ran out of rares as soon as early 1940, reducing the effective IC to around 450 - that´s almost UK level (420 eff. IC).

Edit: They recovered after the invasion of SOV.

 

[Zsar1]

Hi,

I'd think that ITA should be able to TRY and capture him. However, from my read on the historical situation it wasn't really in the cards. So letting ITA decide is IMO wrong. At best they should get a percentage chance based off a U_69 event.

I based my assumptions on this Wikipedia article (with citation of "Barker, A. J., The Rape of Ethiopia 1936, p. 126", dunno how reliable that is):

On 2 May, Graziani requested permission from Mussolini to bomb Haile Selassie's train when he found out that Haile Selassie had left Addis Ababa on the Imperial Railway. But Il Duce ("The Leader") refused his request, allowing Selassie's escape to Europe.

I figured that bombing a train is no easier than bombing the tracks before the train passes, so both choices are provided.

... Arguably, it would still be necessary to collect the imperial family after stopping the train, so I can see how uncertainty would still be valid.

 

[dec152000]

Hi,

My point would be that any attempt to capture him would be problematic as they didn't historically have forces in place to make the attempt. Bombing the train would certainly be possible. But it would require timely intelligence. Hard to say how much travel time was required. But he left the capital on 2 May and was already in Djibouti on 4 May. So about 1 day. That isn't a lot of time. And then bombing the train may kill or may just stop the train. At that point they would still need to catch up with his entourage. Which still might result in him dying rather then being captured.

mm

 

[rwglaub]

While playing as USA I clicked on Chicago and realized that you can build naval bases on the Great Lakes, and since there is no St Lawrence Seaway in the game no way for the ships to get out to the ocean,