The bilingual Mod GC-the world in flames for DD/Arma

[Fernando Torres]

Got it downloaded and tried it once as germany. And yeah, the difficulty level is sure up. The manpower the germans had was very limiting, I had to slow down barbarossa without any of the major three cities taken, then I took baku from the south and we went into sitzkrieg with them attacking and I defending. Then in 45 or so, nationalist china opened war on the soviets, since japan was defeated very early very easily. (those events were bugged though, japan was still at war with the allies.
The russians had 5-600 divisions of inf and nearly 100 armor, but when the chinese took siberia, and I nuked a 100 division stack twice all their manpower seemed to be drained and they collapsed from having so many units...

But USA has like 1200 IC modified, is that really anywhere near historical? I mean sure the BNP might warrant it but since the prices to maintain a division was so diffrerent in the world BNP is a pretty bad indicator?

Anyway, great cudos for making the game difficult again, good job! Now just give us a revamped techtree and techteams, hehehe

1200 IC ? Oh my god, i don't know how it happened :wacko: .
They probably annexed others countries or something like that.
Are you playing v0.6 ? The japanese problem is known and i've fixed it.
Thanks for your feedback.

 

[Fernando Torres]

My next game I will play as the UK, what should I be looking for Fernando? Anything specific?

1- The manpower : if it's too low or not
2- The difficulty : if you can avoid Sealion or if its too hard

I want the uk to be historical, i mean a very few troops by 1940 but a navy and an airforce which are able to avoid an invasion.

 

[Fernando Torres]

Now i have a question for the one who likes the mod : how do you think we could make this mod more known ?
I thought about asking the moderators to open us a sub section as for the others complete mods or to open a new internet site for the mod. I don't know, if you have ideas, i listen to you.




(omg my english is awful...)

:wacko:

 

[Depp]

1200 IC for USA yes, and they had not annexed anyone. I'm glad to hear that it is not normal Maybe I have an installation error or something? My brigade attachment ikons are wrong as well?

To make the mod more known. Yes, get a subforum. Then post things in the general forum about it, and make an easier installation for the dummies (like an exe that does it all), maybe tone down the french since noone besides french people know it
The name of this thread is abit dubious also, at first I thought this was some kind of translation project and didn't check it out, hehehe.
All mods have something special, but this one is the only one that made me feel challanged in a fun way, so I must say this is my favorite mod so far, even though im soft for the core techtrees, but they don't seem to develop anything at all these days, it's practically dead. And then their events is so unstable that it ruins half the games anyhow...

Anyway, again thanks for making the game interesting again

 

[Fernando Torres]

Well you had to add the arma patch for the brigades. The ic problems probably comes from this but i really don't know.

The subforum, i don't know who to ask. But when i see some subforum which mod is inactive for a while i don't think a subforum for us would be useless since we are alive .
Then for the installer, the exe sucks because the exe compilation freewares are bugged. And i'm not going to buy a software for this...Maybe a "native english writen" installation would be clearer than mine. If you have suggestions...
Also if there are translations problems or anything tell me but since the 0.6 the whole mod is bilingual, i don't see problems with this.
For the tech tree, in fact, we discussed a long time in the french forum and we thought it was better to keep the vanilla's structure and to add changes here and there. There were a lot of people in the french forum who asked for a complete rework of the tech tree and when i asked them which specific major changes they wanted they realised that the tech tree was actually not so bad. But as for all (and i think that is one of the mod specificity), i listen to you because you make the mod and you play it. This is your mod. I'm just here to make suggestions, to answer to questions and to do the changes.

Oh and yes, i'm going to open a new thread for the v1.0 since the mods name will change.


Another thing, you (i mean the players) have to recommend the mod around you if you want it to be more known. IE some will make AARs, others will talk about the mod on others threads or anything. That is the only way to develop its reputation because when I say "oh test this mod, i can promise you will enjoy", the people don't trust me bause i'm the modder.
When its said by players it is not the same thing. (i dont know if i'm clear :wacko: )

 

[Fernando Torres]

Ive opened an english thread on the french forum "strategium", i advice you (especially the beta testers) to post there as you'll be able to share opinions with the french guys (in english of course ) : http://forum.jeux-strategie.com/index.php?act=ST&f=242&t=53669

 

[Bom]

An update on my Japan game:

It is now September -38, and war in China is 14 months old. My initial offensive in the Shanxi area quickly stalled, since the Chinese brought in massive reinforcements. After that I have opened up new fronts through amphibious assaults, one just south of the northern front that was abondoned after a while since my attempts to pocket a large Chinese army failed. After that 2 more fronts has melted together to one, and I control all of southern China from Shanghai/Nanjing and down south. All minors except Sinkiang and Com. China has been annexed by Nat. China, that is holding on to large portions of central China and parts of former Yunnan. They are down to about 30 base IC.

Strategic goal is to try to link together my 2 fronts in the west, isolating Sinkiang and the few Nat. China forces in former Xibei area. War will most definitly last atleast until -39 if nothing unexpected happens.

It has been really hard to make any progress, only weakness I have noticed this far is that it takes the AI some time to apapt when I open a new front. But they usually react quick enough to aviod major breakthroughs, and there seems to be new divisions popping up everywhere. I´m guessing divisions pop up when I´m getting close to certain provinces?

Will come back with more info when I have played some more...

 

[Fernando Torres]

In fact there are a few divisions pop up (and militias...). But the AI uses Strat Redep too. The problem with China is that if i ask her to make mobile forces, she won't have enough inf to stop you. So she will move slowly.

 

[Black Lotus]

1- The manpower : if it's too low or not
2- The difficulty : if you can avoid Sealion or if its too hard

I want the uk to be historical, i mean a very few troops by 1940 but a navy and an airforce which are able to avoid an invasion.

Got it, historical game, I will provide screenies.

Also a really nice AAR can always promote your mod. Though I know you're doing the Band of Brothers one.

 

[Fernando Torres]

Yes but the BoB AAR is quite unknown

 

[Depp]

Tech tree wise, I really like the core tech tree, but some things is not that great there either. It takes away the specialisation that the original tree gives.

If there was a way to add more than one brigade to a unit, one could make brigades that really represented a different doctrine that then could be attached to a unit. Say blitzkrieg for Offensive, and Elastic Defense for Defense, or infiltration assault for offensive and static defense for defence.
And to change doctrine you could remove the brigade and add another with a certain training period. And special brigades from HQ that effected alot more.

Then the atlatic wall germans could have static defence and the barbarossa germans could have something else. Pretty historical I think. And the techtree could then be more generalised, so if the wehrmacht wanted to use infiltration assault for it's marines for example, it could...

Just shooting of a past midnight idea here, might sound really stupid to me in the morning

 

[Fernando Torres]

Not stupid but we can't add more than one brigade to land units.

 

[rwglaub]

Playing my first game as Germany. Took out Britain after a hard fought campaign. I would like to recommend the following when the British surrender:

1. Malta to Italy
2. Gibraltar to Nationalist Spain
3. More territory in North Africa to Italy

I would also like to recommend a general peace conference event, where the different territories get distributed. Other mods do it, and it seems to work.

Cleaning up after the fall of Britian has delayed my attack on the Soviet Union until 1942.

 

[Fernando Torres]

I did not make peace conference after the success of Sealion because i did (and i don't) have the time for. I don't think this is would change a lot the mod despite this would take me a long time.
I'll give Malta to ITA. For Gibraltar it does not seem so easy cause SPA can loose the SCW. UK already release fascist puppets in Africa, easy to ally for Germany or Italy so i don't think it would be necessary to give more territories to Italy.

 

[Black Lotus]

Two things I've noticed with the UK, first is that they have a ton of Grand Admirals in the beginning, intended?

And did you change the United Front event for China to annex all the warlords?

 

[Fernando Torres]

Yes.

 

[Black Lotus]

Not to question you, but doesn't that make China really hard to take for the Japanese even if you play as them? And is it historical?

 

[Fernando Torres]

Of course it is. (i mean the difficulty level, about the clans, we can't simulate the clans system in China with different countries but i'm not an expert)

 

[Fernando Torres]

Have a look, here is my current handsoff and the JAP don't have any problem with China :

 

[Black Lotus]

Interesting...I will play it out and see how it goes.