[MOD] Homeland, an ahistorical mod for Darkest Hour

[novapaddy]

Shut up woman get on my horse!!!

Why USA ever loss?

Well the USA have opportunities to make an early peace with both Jap and Eng.
France have an opportunity to join with the USA against England.
Italy have an opportunity to join with the USA against England.

South American countries come to the aid of USA.

... so it is NOT a forgone conclusion that the USA will lose...

 

[Slick0013]

WOW, looks amazing so far!

 

[Gukpa]

IF USA smash the allies,what happen?

 

[novapaddy]

IF USA smash the allies,what happen?

For some things in Life, one might say: "It is written..."

For other things: "It is not!"

 

[Gukpa]

Well...If USA win nothing happens?

 

[novapaddy]

Well...If USA win nothing happens?

I haven't scripted the whole mod from beginning to the end.
I have scripted a whole series of possibilities that will hopefully make an entertaining mod for the player.

For whatever nation you play (majors) you should find the ai is busy making war elsewhere. It will be up the the player to decide what course he wishes to take.

As a USA player for instance, you will not have a definite course of events, it will vary according to random decisions of the ai. So, in one game you may find France is your ally and is fighting England. In another game, France may be fighting you. Or, in another game, France may stay neutral.

If after all of this, the USA regains its total territory back, it will be for the player to decide if he wants to attack the other powers. He could be at war with Jap, Eng, Sov, or Fra by then...?

GER doesn't get involved, well only minimally in the American war, it is too busy building up its forces for its own adventures in the East. Well, that is GER's plan, other powers have their own plans... Which IS scripted!

 

[Gukpa]

Ok

 

[novapaddy]

I think I may be able to release this tomorrow? That's Sunday, London Time around 12 noon, if not before?

Will have to be mediafire for the upload. If this doesn't suit you, let me know.

It depends if I can do a few more games and not see anything wrong...:wub:

 

[novapaddy]

I have been working hard this morning to try to fix any problems that I've noticed during game play.

I've come to the conclusion that you can only do so much, as just now, I've had the USA ally with GER and throw all my plans into the bin... This never happened before, so I think I'll just wrap this up here.

The mod is not the finished, polished article, that I had planned, months ago. But it is as good as I can get right now.

I'm wrapping up and will upload. Depending on the speed of the internet today, it should take an hour or so??

 

[novapaddy]

Homeland2 is uploaded and the links are on page 1. :ninja:

 

[unmerged(444403)]

Got it all up and running and first impressions are good, i played about an hour with the UK and like what i see. New units look interesting i found that the UK has about 20 divisions in its deployment pool at the start of the game? i don't know if that's intentional

Japan declared war on the USA pretty quickly which is good and invaded the east coast but refused an alliance so my first objective was to take the Panama canal but found that i was unable to launch an amphibious invasion (i don't know if your able normally - I've never tried before).

Still looking forward to getting into it so far its going swimmingly

 

[glen1525]

Sir, i have downloaded and it looks great, the skiff models are great, the francesco pictures are also great but when i pick no nato counters i get ugly yellow squares . is somthing missing in my download, no sprites i think their called? thanks for the fantastic mod.

 

[novapaddy]

Got it all up and running and first impressions are good, i played about an hour with the UK and like what i see. New units look interesting i found that the UK has about 20 divisions in its deployment pool at the start of the game? i don't know if that's intentional

Japan declared war on the USA pretty quickly which is good and invaded the east coast but refused an alliance so my first objective was to take the Panama canal but found that i was unable to launch an amphibious invasion (i don't know if your able normally - I've never tried before).

Still looking forward to getting into it so far its going swimmingly

Funnily enough, ENG and JAP are allies if controlled by the ai. Possibly I should have given you an event for that?

Sir, i have downloaded and it looks great, the skiff models are great, the francesco pictures are also great but when i pick no nato counters i get ugly yellow squares . is somthing missing in my download, no sprites i think their called? thanks for the fantastic mod.

Counters only I'm afraid. If you had wanted sprites, I'd be working on it until doomsday.

Thanks for the positive feedback. Cheers

 

[unmerged(444403)]

Sir, i have downloaded and it looks great, the skiff models are great, the francesco pictures are also great but when i pick no nato counters i get ugly yellow squares . is somthing missing in my download, no sprites i think their called? thanks for the fantastic mod.

I think sprites were intentionally left out as counters are sufficient and making new sprites to match the new units would be a load of unnecessary work.

Suffered my first crash something to do with the Nat-China invasion of Hong Kong and the spawning of a bunch of aussie units via an event to repel them caused and unexplained crash to desktop twice

 

[novapaddy]

I think sprites were intentionally left out as counters are sufficient and making new sprites to match the new units would be a load of unnecessary work.

Suffered my first crash something to do with the Nat-China invasion of Hong Kong and the spawning of a bunch of aussie units via an event to repel them caused and unexplained crash to desktop twice

Hmmm. Never crashed for me. If it happens again, can you please try to see if you can get any kind of message .. maybe Ctrl Alt Del, but I suppose it just went straight to desktop? Pity.

Guangxi attack Hong Kong and Macao, and the Aussies and NewZealanders are sent by the Empire to deal with the problem.

 

[unmerged(444403)]

Yep i like the idea was playing as Australia just to see how the events played out under AI control while i watched but i was suddenly being made to do stuff

So far im very impressed with the reliability of the event triggers the Japanese DOWs and troubles in Sudan run like clockwork

 

[novapaddy]

Yeah I never played the mod as Australia, and I'm worried now that I've lots of events giving extra units at key times, and I wonder if I did them ok, will they all cause a crash??

Too late now...

Anyways, 38 people downloaded the mod on the first day, not bad as DH isn't as busy as it once was and key people seem to have left??. I don't have any information, so I can only presume??

Please feel free to use anything you want, especially the new units, at least now you can see how it is done in practice...

I'm most interested to hear back about the new units, what do you think of them, etc etc.

 

[Gukpa]

OMG! IS RELEASED! but I haven't the game more :'(

 

[Ruostenyrkki]

Really good mod but it crashes alot. The AI actually does ALOT of ambitious landings now and that's really good. It only took a week or so from the Japanese to invade the west-coast after they declared the war.

 

[nova_Risby]

Yeah I never played the mod as Australia, and I'm worried now that I've lots of events giving extra units at key times, and I wonder if I did them ok, will they all cause a crash??

Too late now...

Anyways, 38 people downloaded the mod on the first day, not bad as DH isn't as busy as it once was and key people seem to have left??. I don't have any information, so I can only presume??

Please feel free to use anything you want, especially the new units, at least now you can see how it is done in practice...

I'm most interested to hear back about the new units, what do you think of them, etc etc.

Well I tried out the game and I don't have anything negative to say about the units in themselves, however I playing as GER really would like a Wolf pack sub unit.

Additionally as Germany I found it really hard at the beginnnig having to fight France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, SOV, YUG and others, but hey that's just how the game should be.


To sum it up:

I want a Wolf pack unit.


EDIT:

I haven't tried any other country than Germany so if I found anything else worth mentioning I'll be sure to do so.
Moreover I felt like a kid in a candy store when I saw that you had uploaded it. Great Work.