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OAM said:
I was getting zip at around 6am EDT myself, and only got the page to load this afternoon, so I assume they mean Monday.
In the meantime, if you've got an Inbox that can hold a 7.5MB file, I can email you a copy. I'm at <csabadass at yahoo dot com>, as always.
I tried to make my own (admittedly simple) mod with Dixie in before i became a member, by using the america surrenders event then using the freedom cheat a lot. Sadly however, the technology failed me as i had no tech teams. In your mod are the tech teams good, or if there is a war of attrition with the North, is the South bound to lose to the Norths industrial might or does it have a chance of winning without outside help. Also, are there any partisans risk from escaped slaves if they haven't been freed yet, as well as liberal minded southerners.
Bob Ware said:
1) Tech teams for the CSA are the same as in vanilla DD, with a few additions. On balance, the naval teams are great, air teams are good, and land teams OK.
2) SRTDD is based on the idea that the CS and US learned to get along fairly quickly. They don't fight in this mod unless you play one of them and declare war.
3) CSA slavery ended in SRTDD 'round 1880 or so. Still plenty of racism and discrimination to go around, but since the USA doesn't suffer a penalty for that, I don't impose one on the CSA. The CSA does have problems because of their Mexican occupation, though.
Hope that answers your questions. If not, the very first entry in this thread explains a lot about SRTDD and what it's like, so I would urge you check that out. Anything else you want to know, please post your questions here.
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Thanks. Thats very helpful. I'm afraid i can't install it at the moment but will do when i get back home and will be sure to post anything if i have any queries
Bob Ware said:
You're most welcome! Be happy to answer any other questions you have.
Hope you enjoy SRTDD!
Despite promises to the contrary, savefile.com is *still* down. While I hunt for an alternate hosting site, please email me if you'd like a copy of SRTDD in the interim. I'm at csabadass at yahoo dot com, and the 2.7 beta version is about 7.7 MB.
Thanks all for your patience, and my apologies for savefile.com's technical problems.
Thanks all for your patience, and my apologies for savefile.com's technical problems.
RossN said:
You can get most of SRTDD to work with plain ol' HoI2. It requires a clean, patched install, but I can tell you how if you're interested.
CSABadass said:
Thanks for the offer and three weeks ago I would have jumped at the chance but at this point the AAR is probably a bit too far advanced - the maps have diverged a fair bit for one thing.
RossN said:
Oh no, I didn't mean "tamper with your AAR", I just thought eventually you might want to play a quasi-DD version just for fun.
The AAR rocks. Don't change a thing!
semihippie said:
Thanks! I need to do a little more tinkering on the 2.7 beta first, but I greatly appreciate the offer.
V2.7
Apologies for:
1) Releasing a new version so soon, but V2.7 is all I have access to with savefile.com still down.
2) Having no leaders or ministers for Sequoyah. It's been a fruitless search for them so far, and most of my time is being eaten up by my Victoria: Revolutions CSA mod.
3) Taking so long to get the mod up for download somewhere else. (Thanks to OAM for pointing me to filefront.com).
All that said, thanks for your continued interest in SRTDD, and enjoy V2.7!
Version 2.7:
--Changed the "CSA Surrenders To Germany" event so Confederate Arizona goes to independent Texas, rather than being left an isolated part of the Confederacy.
--Changed the "CSA Surrenders To Germany" and "CSA Surrenders To Mexico" events so Sequoyah is released as an independent country.
Download it from its new home: http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=4444465
http://files.filefront.com/Southern_Road_To_Doomsday7zip/;5450669;;/fileinfo.html
Apologies for:
1) Releasing a new version so soon, but V2.7 is all I have access to with savefile.com still down.
2) Having no leaders or ministers for Sequoyah. It's been a fruitless search for them so far, and most of my time is being eaten up by my Victoria: Revolutions CSA mod.
3) Taking so long to get the mod up for download somewhere else. (Thanks to OAM for pointing me to filefront.com).
All that said, thanks for your continued interest in SRTDD, and enjoy V2.7!
Version 2.7:
--Changed the "CSA Surrenders To Germany" event so Confederate Arizona goes to independent Texas, rather than being left an isolated part of the Confederacy.
--Changed the "CSA Surrenders To Germany" and "CSA Surrenders To Mexico" events so Sequoyah is released as an independent country.
Download it from its new home: http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=4444465
http://files.filefront.com/Southern_Road_To_Doomsday7zip/;5450669;;/fileinfo.html
RossN said:Cool thanks, I'd enjoy that.
Shoot me an email at csabadass at yahoo dot com and I'll send you a quasi-DD version.
@CSA
How goes the Victoria Revolutios work? I was going to purchase it myself but I read a couple of posts suggesting that V:R has a few bugs that could do with patching so I have held off so far.
Id like to hear your impression of the V:R so far and Id also like to hear what plans you have up your sleeve for your pre-1936 era of your mod.
How goes the Victoria Revolutios work? I was going to purchase it myself but I read a couple of posts suggesting that V:R has a few bugs that could do with patching so I have held off so far.
Id like to hear your impression of the V:R so far and Id also like to hear what plans you have up your sleeve for your pre-1936 era of your mod.
HMS Enterprize said:
I'm in my first extended game of V:R with the mod beta right now. It's late 1891, and the Confederacy just secured an alliance with the British Empire. This is on the heels of the CSA buying Cuba, annexing Hawaii, and defeating Mexico in a short war to secure a Pacific coastline.
For a Southern Boy like me, I'm having a blast.
As for V:R itself, overall it's like plain Victoria, only moreso. It's still not the frentic fight-fight-fight action of DD, and playing a country with any sort of free market now means you have to sit back and watch others run your economy for you on top of that. I'm really digging V:R myself for its uniqueness, but if you're on the borderline with the regular game, I'd take a pass on the expansion.
The bug situation and my mod intersect quite a bit. Read any thread on playing the CSA on the Vicky boards and it talks of how hopeless it is. Once I started looking at the files, the thing that fascinated me is how much of that is due to bugs.
For example, there's a US AI event which is essentially "the US finally gets over losing the Civil War" but the trigger on it is broken and it *never* fires, even though it's supposed to in 1868.
"Texan" is supposed to be a native CSA culture at the 1861 scenario's start but isn't, cutting off all those POPs from conversion.
The event that is supposed to get rid of the pro-slavery parties after emancipation doesn't work, so the CSA is stuck with a ruling party that won't let you enact any social reforms even after freeing the slaves and 20 years of constant rebellion.
So mainly the mod so far is just fixing bugs, removing the CSA cores from the US if the South wins the Civil War, and giving at least a few countries some sympathy towards the South in their AI files.
I'll post the V:R mod for download once I hit 1936 and see what the DD port looks like. In the meantime, I'd be happy to share the beta version with anyone willing to give me some feedback. Just email me at csabadass at yahoo dot com if interested.
Hope that answers your questions. Thanks for your interest in my V:R mod, and keep up the great work on the Timeline-191 mod!
CSABadass said:
I used to play Vicky exclusively and loved a modded CSA game (nothing quite like taking the CSA to rank 1!) (never played HOI1) so my first work on TL-191 actually began there (I never released anything- vicky lacks a mod-dir facility)
Im definately going to get V:R (although Im not sure I like the idea of only promoting national POPs- my fav tactic was to fight spain and take the phillippines for its huge manpower. Haiti & Cuba was also good for manpower too although to be fair national POPs only is probably a lot more realistic)
(Side not to that- Considering in a number of cases of alternate history the CSA ends up with Cuba as a state, making them a national culture isnt probably too much of an exploit, as is mexican if you take the mexican 'CS states')
Regarding the converter, I have not heard many good things about it, so I wouldnt get your hopes up...I read some crazy stuff- Hitler the HOS for a democratic germany!! The UK with over a hundred battleships and no screens. (Considering the radical differences between Vicky and HOI2 I was always skeptical that the converter was going to be a success)
CSABadass said:
A heartfelt thanks from one Son of the (British) South to another